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Conversation: 683-006

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Start Date: 13-Mar-1972 12:02 PM

End Date: 13-Mar-1972 12:17 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Bull, Stephen B.[Unknown person(s)]Whitman, Marina von NeumannWhitman, Robert (Dr.)Whitman, MalcolmWhitman, LauraPierce, JosephineStein, HerbertSolomon, EzraShultz, George P.Safire, William L.Franklin, Barbara H.McArdle, PaulWhite House photographer

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:39:53

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:54:00

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683b.mp3

683c.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, unknown person(s), Marina von Neumann Whitman, Dr. Robert Whitman, Malcolm Whitman, Laura Whitman, Josephine Pierce, Herbert Stein, Ezra Solomon, George P. Shultz, William L. Safire, Barbara H. Franklin, Paul McArdle, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:02 pm and 12:17 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 683-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 683-6

Date: March 13, 1972
Time: Unknown after 12:02 pm until 12:17 pm
Location: Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with unknown people.

     Preparations for swearing-in ceremony

Marina von N. Whitman, Dr. Robert Whitman, Malcolm Whitman, Laura Whitman, Josephine
Pierce, Herbert Stein, Ezra Solomon, George P. Shultz, William L. Safire, Barbara H. Franklin
and Judge Paul McArdle entered at an unknown time after 12:02 pm; the White House
photographer and members of the press were present.

     Swearing-in ceremony
         -Positions
               -Marina Whitman
               -Robert Whitman
               -McArdle
               -Shultz
               -Solomon

     [General conversation]
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Aug-01)
                                                               Conv. No. 683-6 (cont.)


The President entered at 12:05 pm.

     Swearing-in ceremony
         -McArdle
         -Oath of office
               -Whitman

     Malcolm and Laura Whitman

     Photographs
          -Copies
          -Family
          -Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]

     Economy
         -Prices
         -Unemployment

     Photographs
          -Shultz

     Gifts
             -Cufflinks

     CEA
             -Reports
                   -Wording
             -Stein

     Whitman’s mother
         -Elephants

     Washington, DC
         -Weather
         -Trees
              -Magnolias
              -Crab apples
         -Tulips
                                              28

                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Aug-01)
                                                             Conv. No. 683-6 (cont.)

     Gift [“Star of the President”]
           -Walter H. Annenberg
                 -Ambassador
                       -France
                       -Steuben glass

     CEZ
           -Whitman
                -First woman
                -Chairman

     Oval Office
          -Paintings
                -George Washington
                      -Rembrandt Peale
                           -Father
                                 -Charles Wilson Peale
          -Crewelwork
                -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
          -Paintings
                -White House
                      -Wings
                           -Theodore Roosevelt
          -Tree
                -Peking

     Pandas
          -Washington National Zoo
          -Outside the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
                -London
                -Another European city
          -Pair
          -Soviet Union

     Bean birds
          -Gift

Whitman, et al. left at 12:17 pm.
                                               29

                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. Aug-01)
                                                                    Conv. No. 683-6 (cont.)

     The President’s schedule
          -Forthcoming meeting with Ronald S. Berman

     Steuben glass [“Star of the President”]

Bull left at 12:17 pm.