Conversation: 820-009
Prev: 820-008 Next: 820-010Start Date: 12-Dec-1972 10:53 AM
End Date: 12-Dec-1972 11:13 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On December 12, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:53 am to 11:13 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 820-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 820-9
Date: December 12, 1972
Time: 10:53 am - 11:13 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R.(“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with W. Clement Stone
-Fundraising
-The President’s role
-Commitments
-White House
-Dinners
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Volunteerism
-National Center for Voluntary Action [NCVA]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 820-9 (cont’d)
-Credit
-Credit
-Football players
Second term reorganization
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Conversation with the President
-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
-Retention
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s conversation with Ronald L.
Ziegler
-Ziegler’s view
-Work with Stuart
-White House
-NCVA
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s meeting with Lenore (LaFount) Romney,
December 11, 1972
-White House
-Stephen B. Bull
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-Abilities
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-Unknown person
-Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan
-Scheduling, events, cooperation
The President’s schedule
-George P. Shultz [?]
-Mayor of Whittier, California [Blake Sanborn] and President of Whittier Chamber
of Commerce [Donald Kemp]
-Scroll
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 820-9 (cont’d)
-Presentation to Mrs. Nixon
-Nixon Library
-Whittier
-The President’s hometown
-1972 election
-Signatures
-Rose Mary Woods’s involvement
-Mrs. Nixon
-White House staff instructions
-David N. Parker
-Haldeman’s role
-Personal matters
-Compared to meetings with associations, clubs
Second term reorganization
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Mrs. Nixon
-NCVA
-Possible conversation with Haldeman
-Value
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
-Value
-Relations with White House staff
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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-Woods
The President’s schedule
-Cancelled meeting with Sanborn and Kemp
-Whittier
-Scroll
-Symbolism
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 820-9 (cont’d)
-Ziegler
-Timing
-The President’s foot
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
Second term reorganization
-Julie Eisenhower
-White House
-Buffering role
-Bull
-East Wing
-Meeting with veterans, Jews, blacks
-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
-Mrs. Nixon’s image
-Foreign policy
-Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Beautification
-Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
-White House decorations
-The President’s trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Bull
-Stuart
-Press relations
-Schedule
-Planning
-Christmas
-Rose Parade
-First term
-Trips, dedications, blind people
-Trips
-Receptions
-Hand-shaking
-Compared to Mrs. Johnson, Mamie G. D. Eisenhower,
Mrs. Kennedy
-Public relations [PR] planning
-Chapin
-Richard A. Moore
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
Conversation No. 820-9 (cont’d)
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
-Value
-Personaliy
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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-White House staff
-Meetings with public
-East Wing
-Conversation with Haldeman
-The President’s schedule
Haldeman left at 11:13 am.