Conversation: 817-012
Prev: 817-011 Next: 817-013Start Date: 30-Nov-1972 11:49 AM
End Date: 30-Nov-1972 12:10 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia Nixon; Bull, Stephen B.; Davis, Jeanne Wilson;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On November 30, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Tricia Nixon Cox, Stephen B. Bull, and Jeanne Wilson Davis met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:49 am to 12:10 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 817-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 817-12
Date: November 30, 1972
Time: 11:49 am - 12:10 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Tricia Nixon Cox.
Tricia Nixon Cox’s schedule
-Trip to the Soviet Union
-Accommodations
-Walter H. Annenberg’s schedule
-Embassy residence
-Soviet Union aircraft
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Conversation No. 817-12 (cont’d)
-Accommodations
-Claridge’s Hotel
-Expense
-Annenberg
-Escort
-US embassy officer
-Translator duty
-Soviet Union press
-US press
-Public appearances
-Egypt
-Jeanne W. Davis
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s suggestions
-The President’s view
-Towns
-Windsor Castle
-University visits
-Heckling
-American University
-Meetings with embassy staffs
-Athens
-Cairo
-Aswan Dam
-Luxor
-Aswan Dam
-Temples
-Aswan Dam
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s previous visit
-Egypt
-Anwar el Sadat
-Jordan
[Hussein, King of Jordan] Hussein ibn Talal
-Previous meeting with Tricia Nixon Cox
-Israel
-Kibbutz
-Child rearing
-Black Sea
-Leningrad
-Palace [Hermitage]
-Guest house
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Conversation No. 817-12 (cont’d)
-Moscow
-Embassy residence
-Kremlin
-Tashkent
-Collective farms
-Samarkand
-Genghis Khan
-Location
-Persia
-Jordan
-Duration
-Israel
-Departure time
Meeting with Davis
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:49 am.
Meeting with Davis
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:58 am.
Tricia Nixon Cox’s schedule
-Telephone call from Irini Dobrynin
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-The President’s schedule
-Camp David
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Conversation No. 817-12 (cont’d)
-Helene (Colesie) Drown, Jack Drown
-Cabinet
-Vietnam negotiations
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-New York
-Reception
-Announcements
-Vietnam negotiations
-Helene Drown, Jack Drown
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-Florida
-Pool
-Camp David
-Mrs. Nixon
-Helene Drown, Jack Drown
-Vietnam negotiations
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Tricia Nixon Cox’s schedule
-Trip to the Soviet Union
-Irina Dobrynin
-Public attention
-Press and media relations
-Press conferences
-Public comments
-Tricia Cox’s previous trip to Britain
-Television [TV]
-Edward R. F. Cox
-Egypt
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Conversation No. 817-12 (cont’d)
-Briefing book
-Jordan
-Israel
Davis entered at 11:58 am.
Greetings
Introductions
Tricia Nixon Cox’s schedule
-Trip to the Soviet Union
-Telephone call from Irina Dobrynin
-Accommodations
-Embassies
-Walter and Leonore (Cohn) Annenberg
-Relationship with the President
-Egypt
-Hotel
-Spasso House
-Tashkent
-University visits
-Moscow University
-Building
-Britain
-Tashkent
-Samarkand
-Blue Temple
-Alma Ata
-Novosibirsk
-Samarkand
-Leningrad
-Guest house
-Irina Dobrynin
-Bolshoi Theatre
-Bolshoi Theatre
-Compared to La Scala Opera House
-Leningrad
-Hermitage
-Britain
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Conversation No. 817-12 (cont’d)
-Historical sites
-Briefing books
-Biographical sketches
-Historical sites
-Protocol
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-State Department
-European stop overs
-Wales
-Scotland
-Vienna
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s previous visit
-Warsaw
-Beauty
-Vienna
-Spain
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s previous visit
-Time constraints
-1973 inauguration
-West Germany
-Edward Cox
-Rome
-Vatican
-Edward Cox
-Tricia Nixon’s Cox’s previous visits
-Milan
-Venice
-Spain
-Portugal
-Britain
-Press relations
-Private trip
-Itinerary
-Britain
-Jordan
-Duration
-Britain
-Cairo
-Duration
-Alexandria
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Conversation No. 817-12 (cont’d)
-Luxor
-Valley of Kings
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s previous visit
-Britain
-Jordan
-Duration
-Israel
-Edward Cox
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s previous visit
-Historical sites
-Duration
-Italy
-Rome
-Vatican
-Itinerary
-Strictness
-Britain
-Hyde Park
-Egypt
-Britain
-Greece
-Cairo
-Sight-seeing
-Universities
-Market places
-Samarkand
-The President’s 1967 trip
-Britain
-Rome
-Compared to Paris, Berlin
-Vatican
-Antiquity
-Athens
-Time frame
-Arrangements
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s meeting with Davis
-Irina Dobrynin
-Unknown people
-Ronald L. Zeigler’s announcement
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s meeting with Davis
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Conversation No. 817-12 (cont’d)
-White House operator
-Davis’s office
-Location
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
Davis left at 12:08 pm.
Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s staff
Tricia Nixon Cox’s schedule
-Trip to the Soviet Union
-Rome
Mrs. Nixon’s staff
-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
-Retention
-William R. Codus
-Press Secretary
-East and West Wing liaison
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Promotion
-Codus
-Bull
-Codus
-Trips
-Protocol
-Rose Bowl Parade
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Retention
White House gifts
-Pin for Davis
-Instruction for Bull
-Oval Office visitors
Tricia Nixon Cox left at 12:10 pm.
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