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Start Date: 30-Nov-1972 8:34 AM

End Date: 30-Nov-1972 9:15 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Woods, Rose MaryMonzon, Zosimo T.Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

817-003.mp3

NARA Description:

On November 30, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Zosimo T. Monzon, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:34 am to 9:15 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 817-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 817-3

Date: November 30, 1972
Time: 8:34 am - 9:15 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

       Robert J. Brown

       Pens
              -Points
                        -Wear
                        -Change
                        -Size
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                                                               Conversation No. 817-3 (cont’d)

      Notebook
            -The President’s conversation with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
            -Ann Duggan
            -Refills
            -Number
            -Tricia Nixon Cox
            -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
            -Placement
                    -Camp David
                    -Florida
                    -California
            -Notes

      Office supplies
              -Pens
                     -Number
                     -Quality
              -Note pads
                     -Size
                            -Cabinet table
                     -Duggan
                     -Order

      Mrs. Nixon
             -Rose Bowl parade
                    -Herbert G. Klein
                    -University of Southern California [USC]
                    -John Wayne
                           -Grand marshal
                    -The President’s schedule
                           -Honors
                           -Florida
                           -California
                                   -Family


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             -Jack, Drown, Helene (Colesie) Drown
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                                                                             Conversation No. 817-3 (cont’d)

                           -California
                           -Robert W. Hirsh [?]
                           -Leonard K. Firestone
                                  -Blaire House

        The President’s schedule
               -Mrs. Nixon
               -Camp David
               -California
               -Christmas
                      -Jack Drown
               -Camp David
               -Jack Drown, Helene Drown

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Monson [?] entered at an unknown time after 8:34 am.

        Pens
                 -Points
                           -Change

Monson [?] left at an unknown time before 8:50 am.


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        The President’s schedule
               -Jack Drown, Helene Drown
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                                                                             Conversation No. 817-3 (cont’d)

                          -Visit to the White House
                                  -Vietnam negotiations

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        Visit of Californians
                -Cocktail party
                -The President’s plans
                        -Camp David
                -Blair House
                -Blue Room
                        -Response of visitors

        White House remodeling
              -Upstairs kitchen
                     -Mrs. Nixon
                             -San Clemente
                     -Third floor room
                             -Tricia Nixon Cox
                             -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                             -Décor
                                     -Lyndon B. Johnson, Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”)
                                      Johnson
                                     -Texas
                                     -Tastes
                             -Family’s use

        The President’s schedule
               -Rose bowl
                      -Mrs. Nixon
               -Florida trip
               -Inauguration

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                                                                             Conversation No. 817-3 (cont’d)

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                 -Christmas
                         -Florida
                         -California
                 -Relatives
                         -Inauguration
                         -F. Donald Nixon
                         -Jack Drown, Helene Drown
                                -Florida

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        Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
               -Trip to Soviet Union
               -[Dwight} David Eisenhower, II
                       -Career
                       -Writing
                       -Los Angeles Times
               -Personality

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        Watergate
              -Gabriel Hauge’s letter to the President
                     -The President’s reply
                            -Underlining
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                                                           Conversation No. 817-3 (cont’d)

                          -Taping
                          -The President’s appreciation
                          -Hauge’s previous letters
                                 -Economic policy
                                        -Wage and price controls
                                 -Vietnam
                                        -Cambodia
                                 -Form


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      Anthony R. (“Tony”) telephone call to Rose Mary Woods
            -Clothes for inauguration
                   -Arrangements

      Benjamin Freeman
            -Health

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      White House gifts
            -Music boxes
                   -Cost
                   -Song list
                          -Typing
                                  -Marjorie P. Acker
                                  -The President's review
                   -Occasions
                          -Christmas, 1973 inauguration
                                  -Songs
                   -Cost
                   -Possible recipients
                          -Mrs. Nixon’s brothers [William and Tom Ryan]
                          -The President’s brothers [Edward C. Nixon and F. Donald Nixon]
                   -1973 Inauguration
                   -Possible recipients
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                                                             Conversation No. 817-3 (cont’d)

                            -Elmer H. Bobst
                            -Contributors
                                   -John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
                                   -John W. Rollins
                                   -W. Clement Stone
                                   -Richard Scaife
                                   -C. Arnholt Smith
                                   -Mulcahy
                     -Song list
                            -The President's review
                                   -The President’s schedule
                                           -Meeting Ngyun Phu Duc
                            -Timing
                            -Acker
                            -Genres
                                   -Classical
                                   -Contemporary
                                           -Old Black Joe by Stephen C. Foster
               -Mandolin
                     -John M. (“Jack”) Lynch
                            -Possible telephone call from the President

Stephen B. Bull entered at 8:58 am.

       Howard Hughes

       The President’s file

       The President’s schedule
              -Florida

       Oval office furnishings
              -Japanese art work
                      -Removal
                      -Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
                      -Replacement
                             -Chinese jade ewer

Bull left at 8:59 a.m.
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                                                           Conversation No. 817-3 (cont’d)

     Book [For the President Personal and Secret [Correspondence between Franklin D.
     Roosevelt and William C. Bullitt]
           -Bullitt
                    -Orville H. Bullitt
                    -Photograph

      The President’s schedule
             -Recent trip to New York
                    -Ties
                             -Ann [and Tom] Duggan
                             -1973 Inauguration
             -Possible meeting with Pedro Beltran
                    -Frank J. Shakespeare’s recent telephone call
                             -Beltran’s schedule
                                     -New York
                    -Timing
                             -Post 1973 Inauguration
                             -Foreign visitors
                    -Shakespeare’s possible conversation with Beltran
                    -Beltran’s background
                             -Peru Prime Minister
                             -Editors, speaker
                             -Relationship with the President
             -William P. Rogers
             -Henry A. Kissinger
             -William J. Casey
                    -Forthcoming appointment as Under Secretary of State for Economic
                     Affairs
                             -Announcement
                                     -Timing
                    -Loyalty
                    -Forthcoming appointment
                             -Latin America


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      Executive Office Building [EOB]
             -Décor
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                                                              Conversation No. 817-3 (cont’d)

                    -Elephant
                    -Baron Guido Zerilli-Marimo
                    -Pictures
                            -Mrs. Nixon

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      White House gifts
            -State gifts
                    -Quality
                           -Mrs. Nixon’s view
            -The Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s gifts
                    -Quality
                           -Executive Office Building [EOB]
            -State gifts
                    -Quality


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      White House social affairs
            -Christmas Season
                   -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                           -Return to Washington, DC
                           -Assistance
                           -Mrs. Nixon
                   -Parties
                           -Attendance

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      White House social affairs
            -First Family attendance
            -Parties
                    -Decorations
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                                                             Conversation No. 817-3 (cont’d)

             -Timing
                     -Nights
             -First Family’s attendance
                     -Press
             -White House staff, Cabinet

      Executive Office Building [EOB]
             -Visits


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      1973 Inauguration
             -F. Donald Nixon
                    -Evelyn Dorn
                            -Work
                            -Roberta Dorn
                    -Requests
                            -Hotel bill
                                    -Jack Drown, Helene Drown
                                    -Larry Dorn, Evelyn Dorn [?]
                                    -Payment
             -Edward C. Nixon
                    -Employment
                            -Ned Sullivan
                            -Roberta Dorn
                            -Secretary
                    -Nixon family
                            -Arrangements
                            -Discussion with Mrs. Nixon, Sullivan
                    -Employment
                            -Roberta Dorn
                            -Secretary from 1972 campaign
                            -Sullivan
                    -Travel
             -The President’s relatives
                    -Cousins
                            -Plans
                    -Letters
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                                                           Conversation No. 817-3 (cont’d)

                   -Cousins
                   -Mrs. Nixon
                   -Priority
            -Campaign contributors
                   -Sullivan
                   -Lists
                           -Maurice H. Stans
                           -Clark MacGregor
                           -John B. Connally
                           -Peter J. Brennan
                                   -Labor
                           -New supporters
            -The President’s relatives
                   -Contributors

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      Appointments
            -Untied Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO]
             ambassadorship
                   -[Ned Sullivan]
                          -Louise Gore
                                  -Paris
                                  -Resignation
                          -Identity
                                  -Mrs. Nixon’s second cousin
            -Edward C. Nixon
                   -Employment by government
                          -White House
                          -John W. Dean, III
                                  -Legal work
                                         -White House, Federal agencies


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      Donald Nixon
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                                                                             Conversation No. 817-3 (cont’d)

                 -Personality
                 -Robert L. Vesco
                 -Call to Woods
                         -Assistance
                         -John D. Ehrlichman’s office
                 -Health
                         -Ehrlichman’s investigation
                         -Hyperactivity

        Notebooks
              -First family
                       -Christmas gift
              -Store
              -Woods’ purchase
              -New York

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        Ann Duggan
              -Campaign contribution
              -Wealth
              -Mrs. Nixon
              -Marriage
              -England
              -Sylvan Destreicher
                      -Baseball team
              -Invitation to 1973 Inaugural

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Woods left at 9:15 am.
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