Conversation No. 399-14

Date: January 22, 1973
Time: Between 11:01 am and 1:20 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

       The President's second term

       1973 Inauguration
            -Church service
            -Relatives
            -Inaugural address
                  -White House staff follow-up

       Grand Jury
            -Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
            -Back taxes

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:03 am.

       Washington Post story
            -Source
            -White House rebuttal
                  -United Press International [UPI]
            -Press briefing
            -The President’s instructions

       Press relations
             -Henry A. Kissinger
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                   -Church service
             -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                   -The President's telephone conversations
             -Church service
             -Kissinger
             -Vietnam settlement
                   -Signing
                   -Nguyen Van Thieu
             -Herbert G. Klein
             -Charles W. Colson
                   -Washington Post
                         -Kenneth W. Clawson

Ziegler left at 11:11 am.

       Church service
            -Choir
            -Washington Post

       1973 Inauguration
            -Inaugural ball
                  -Television [TV] coverage
                  -Public Broadcasting System [PBS]
                  -The President's arrival
                  -Spiro T. Agnew

       Press relations
             -The President’s image
             -Reaction
             -Youth Ball
                    -New York
             -Ziegler
                    -Vietnam War
             -Response
             -Washington Post
                    -Confirmation
                    -First term compared to second term
             -Second term goals
                    -Welfare
                    -William E. Brock, III
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                                                  Conversation No. 399-14 (cont’d)

      -Seating arrangements
            -The President’s order
      -Reception [?]
            -Themla C. (“Pat”) Nixon
            -Stephen B. Bull [?]

Congressional relations

Church service [?]

White House entertainment
     -Impresario
     -Leonard Garment
     -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
     -Selection
     -George Murphy
     -1972 campaign
     -Sammy Davis, Jr.
            -Celebrities
     -Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
     -Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
     -Inaugural event
     -A cocktail party
            -Sinatra
            -Davis
            -Sinatra
            -Ball [?]
            -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                   -TV
            -Check by the President
                   -Washington parties [?]
                   -Vietnam settlement [?]
     -Press relations
            -News summaries
                   -The President’s image
            -TV

1973 Inauguration
     -Parade
     -Ball
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     -Press Coverage
     -Parade incident
           -The President’s car
                 -Protestor
                       -Legal charges
                 -Crowd size [?]
                 -Security
                 -TV

Press relations
      -Kissinger [?]
      -White House staff
      -Editorial comment
      -Newspapers
      -Vietnam settlement
             -Haig trip [?]
      -Possible book by The President
      -Colson
      -Staff writers

Celebrities
     -Blacks

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Funeral
     -Washington National Cathedral
     -Claudia A. (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
     -Dwight D. Eisenhower

The President’s speeches
     -Staff work
            -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
            -Rose Mary Woods
            -Price
                   -Proofing
            -Typist
            -Ziegler
            -Manolo Sanchez
            -Adjustments

Church service
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             -Choirs
                  -Edward V. Hill [?]
                  -Colson
                  -District of Columbia
                  -Rhode Island
                  -Delaware
                  -Virginia
                  -Maryland

       Collaboration with [first name unknown] Lott
            -Collection of speeches
                   -Publicity
                         -Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis

       1973 Inauguration
            -Acknowledgement for participants
                  -Special plan [?]
                  -Follow-up
                  -Unknown woman
                        -Floral seal
                  -Remaining money
                        -Use
                        -Inaugural address

       The President's schedule
            -Eisaku Sato
            -Bipartisan Congressional leaders meeting
            -Republican leaders meeting
            -Sato
                  -Dinner
                         -Donald McI. Kendall

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 12:10 pm and 12:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 399-14A]

[See Conversation No. 36-40]

[End of telephone conversation]
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1973 Inauguration
     -Number of invitations
     -Remaining money
           -Use

The President's schedule
     -Sato
     -Next week
     -Dinner
     -Roger Williams
     -Camp David
     -Cabinet members

The President’s statements
     -Buchanan

The President’s schedule
     -Congressional leaders meeting
           -The President’s speech
                  -Contents
                  -World War II
                        -History
                  -Vietnam settlement

Vietnam settlement
     -Article
           -Circulation
                 -Colson’s office
                 -South Vietnam
                       -Communist rule
                 -“Peace with honor”

"Peace with honor"
     -The President's meeting with Raymond K. Price
           -Edward M (“Ted”) Kennedy, Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
           -George McGovern
                 -Policy on Vietnam
           -Presidential adversaries
           -Congressional relations
                 -Presidential gesture
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                                                  Conversation No. 399-14 (cont’d)

          -1972 election
          -Lyndon Johnson
          -Public support for the President
                -Silent majority
                -Democrats
                -Republicans
          -Congressional relations
                -Kissinger [?]
                -History of war
                -John D. Ehrlichman [?]
                -Ziegler [?]
                -McGovern [?]
                -Announcement
                      -TV
                -Democrats
                -Republicans
                -Buchanan
                      -The President’s speeches
          -Prisoners Of War [POWs] return
                -H. Ross Perot
                -The President’s role
                -Guam, Hawaii
                -POW families
          -Lyndon Johnson
          -Haig [?]
          -Kissinger [?]
     -1973 Inauguration [?]
          -Fundraising
          -Cutbacks

Vietnam settlement
     -Congressional relations
     -Kissinger
     -The President’s speech
           -Audience
           -Buchanan
           -Lyndon Johnson
           -Congress
           -American people, servicemen
           -Price
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                                                      Conversation No. 399-14 (cont’d)

           -Inaugural address
           -Patriotism
                  -Education
           -TV
     -Press relations
           -Morning newspaper
           -The President’s speech
                  -National audience
                  -Price

Congressional relations
     -Buchanan

The President’s schedule
     -Sato
     -Heath
     -Sato
           -Dinner
           -Meeting with the President
     -George H.W. Bush
           -Congressional relations
           -Republican National Committee [RNC]
     -Meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders

Vietnam settlement
     -The President’s speech
           -Nixon doctrine
                -Theme of responsibility
                -Cambodia
                       -Bombing

Unknown man
    -Wife

Colson
     -Buchanan

John A. Scali

Bipartisan Congressional leaders meeting [?]
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                                                        Conversation No. 399-14 (cont’d)

            -The President’s schedule
                  -Kissinger
            -Rogers
            -Elliot L. Richardson
            -Senate spokesman
            -Klein [?]
            -Press relations
                  -Dick Olsen [?]
                  -Attendance
                         -Chairmen

Haldeman left at 1:20 pm.