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Conversation: 652-003

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Start Date: 20-Jan-1972 1:22 PM

End Date: 20-Jan-1972 1:33 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Woods, Rose MaryButterfield, Alexander P.[Unknown person(s)]White House operator

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:07:01

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:18:47

652a.mp3

652b.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Alexander P. Butterfield, unknown person(s), and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:22 pm and 1:33 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 652-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 652-3

Date: January 20, 1972
Time: 1:22 pm - unknown before 1:33 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

       The President’s State of the Union Address, January 20, 1972
            -Woods’s view
            -Woods’s presence

       Instruction

       State of the Union Address
             -Woods’s view
             -Length
                    -Compared with addresses by Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and
                         Lyndon B. Johnson
                    -The President’s previous addresses
             -Woods’s view

       Equal Rights Amendment [ERA]
            -Note to John D. Ehrlichman
                  -Administration position
                         -Publicity
            -Edward M. Kennedy’s position
                  -Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s report
            -Administration position
                  -Barbara H. Franklin
                         -Letter
                  -Publicity
                                             3

                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                     Conv. No. 652-3 (cont.)


                  -Ehrlichman
                  -Women in Congress

       State of the Union Address
             -Woods’s observations
                    -Edward Kennedy, Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey and Harold E.
                         Hughes
                    -Senate
                         -Members

       Margaret Chase Smith

An unknown man [Alexander P. Butterfield?] entered at an unknown time after 1:22 pm.

             -Administrative Assistant
                 -Name [William C. Lewis]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:29 pm.

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:22 pm and
1:29 pm.]

[Conversation No. 652-3A]

[See Conversation No. 19-32]

[End of telephone conversation]

       Lewis
            -Name
            -Health
            -Marjorie P. Acker
            -Name

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:22 pm and
1:29 pm.]

[Conversation No. 652-3B]

[See Conversation No. 19-33]
                                              4

                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 652-3 (cont.)


[End of telephone conversation]


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 5s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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[The White House operator talked with the President at 1:29 pm.]

[Conversation No. 652-3C]

[See Conversation No. 19-34]

[End of telephone conversation]


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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       State of the Union Address
             -The President’s efforts
                    -Compared with previous addresses
             -Delivery
                    -Woods’s view
                                         5

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 652-3 (cont.)


      -Length
            -Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s view
            -Cuts
      -Delivery
            -Price’s view
      -Edward Kennedy’s reaction
            -Clark MacGregor’s comment
            -Previous speech
            -John Kennedy quotation
                  -Woods’s observance of Edward Kennedy
      -John Kennedy quotation
            -The President’s handling
                  -US commitments
            -Critique
                  -Bolivia
                  -US foreign policy

John Kennedy
     -Accomplishments
          -Death
          -Compared to Johnson

Johnson
     -Accomplishments
     -Poverty program
           -John Kennedy
           -Blacks
           -Johnson’s support
     -Racism
           -Compared with the President
     -Liberalism
           -Compared with John Kennedy
           -The Great Society

State of the Union Address
      -Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally’s presence
             -Clothes
      -Cabinet wives
             -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
      -John B. Connally
             -The President’s glance during tax section delivery
                                                6

                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                     Conv. No. 652-3 (cont.)


             -Nellie Connally
             -Cabinet wives
             -Atmosphere
                   -Supreme Court
             -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon, Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                   -Applause

Woods left at an unknown time before 1:33 pm.