Conversation: 817-003
Prev: 817-002 Next: 817-004Start Date: 30-Nov-1972 8:34 AM
End Date: 30-Nov-1972 9:15 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Monzon, Zosimo T.; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
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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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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-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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-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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-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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-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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-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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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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-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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-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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-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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-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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