Conversation No. 822-6

Date: December 13, 1972
Time: 3:08 pm – 3:47 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Anne L. Armstrong and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

       Greetings

       [Photograph session]
            -Washington Redskins-Dallas Cowboys game, December 10, 1972
                  -Result
                  -Injuries
                        -Larry Brown
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                                                          Conversation No. 822-6 (cont’d)

                  -Armstrong’s schedule
                       -Ice storm in Texas


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      Republican National Committee [RNC] Chairmanship
           -George H. W. Bush

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      United Nations [UN]
           -George H. W. Bush’s view
           -Value
                 -Hijacking vote, December 12, 1972
                       -Africa


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             -Compared to Republican Party

      Bush
             -Accomplishments
             -Senate and House committees

      Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
           -Decision to rn
           -Newspaper reports
                  -Washington Post, Dallas Morning News
                  -Daniel H. Kuykendall
                  -Haldeman’ to follow-up on story
           -Gerald R. Ford

      Republican candidates
           -New Majority
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                                                 Conversation No. 822-6 (cont’d)

     -Wilson, William E. Brock, III
           -Senate
     -Bush
     -House of Representatives
           -Age
           -Quality
     -Ford
           -Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
     -Wilson

Refreshments

Republican candidates
     -Wilson
           -1968 election
           -Bush
           -Brown
           -Barber B. Conable, Jr.
           -Ford
           -Kuykendall
                  -Tennessee
           -Bush
     -Unified organization
           -Research finance
           -Republican campaign, committees
           -1971 campaign finances
     -Robert J. (“Bob”) Dole
           -Work during 1972 campaign
                  -Concentration of resources
     -1974 Congressional elections
           -State legislatures
           -Candidates
     -Armstrong
           -Speech at Republican Convention
     -Democratic Party
           -Public attitude
           -New Majority
                  -Tom Flynn [?]
                  -The President’s outreach
                        -Maryland, Florida
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                                                             Conversation No. 822-6 (cont’d)

                       -1972 election
                             -Florida, Texas
                       -Ethnics
                 -Divisions

      John B. Connally
           -Conversations with Armstrong and the President
                 -Invitation to support the President
                       -Texas Republican Party
                 -Leader of Texas politics
           -Future with Democrats
                 -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
                 -Robert S. Strauss

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      Second term reorganization
           -Armstrong
                 -Chief of Protocol
                       -Armstrong’s conversation with Haldeman
                             -Tobin Armstrong’s schedule
                                   -Parties
                                   -Trips
                                         -US image
                                         -Ranch
                       -Trips
                             -1973
                                   -Europe
                                   -Number
                                   -Europe
                                   -[Leonid I. Brezhnev’s] trip to the US
                                   -Europe
                                         -February
                             -Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China [PRC]
                                   -Duration
                       -Image
                             -Tobin Armstrong
                       -Conversation with Dwight L. Chapin
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                                            Conversation No. 822-6 (cont’d)

     -State Department
-Bicentennial Commission
     -The President’s note
     -Chairmanship
           -David J. Mahoney, Jr.
     -Management
     -Communications
     -Liaison to state commissions, governors, countries
     -Anne Armstrong’s schedule
           -Compared to Chief of Protocol
     -Tobin Armstrong
     -Problems
           -Mahoney’s schedule
           -Committee
           -Management
           -Politics
                  -1972 election
                        -Congressional relations
                              -Democrats
     -James Roosevelt
           -Franklin D. Roosevelt
           -Chairmanship
-Women
     -Appointment to high positions
     -Marriage
     -Marina von N. Whitman
           -[Robert Whitman]
                  -University of Pittsburgh
     -Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
     -Oveta Culp Hobby
     -Frances Perkins
           -Hobby
     -Chief of Protocol
           -Ambassadorship
           -Symbolism
-Bicentennial Commission
     -Co-chairmanship
-Value
     -“Sales” ability
     -Television [TV]
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                                          Conversation No. 822-6 (cont’d)

           -Women
-White House staff
     -Cuts
     -Barbara H. Franklin
           -Recruitment
     -Blacks, Jews, women
     -Anne Armstrong’s schedule
           -Texas
     -Bicentennial Commission
           -Liaison
           -Leonard Garment
           -The President’s conversation with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
           -Liaison with former Presidents
           -Special consultancy
           -Congressional relations
           -Ethnic quotas
           -Office location
                  -Jackson [Place]
                        -James Biddle
                        -Compared to Executive Office Building [EOB]
           -Purpose
     -Role
           -Advisor
           -Speaker
           -Liaison
           -Bicentennial Commission
           -Republican Party
     -Woman
     -Role
           -Compared to Garment
           -Special Consultant or Special Counsel
           -Bicentennial Commission
           -Other duties
     -Women’s groups’ criticism
           -Special Consultant
     -Possible title
           -Special Consultant
           -Importance
     -Anne Armstrong’s schedule
     -Women
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                                                            Conversation No. 822-6 (cont’d)

                              -Point of view
                              -Franklin’s office
                                    -Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
                                    -Personnel
                                    -Policy
                              -Virginia H. Knauer
                                    -Consumer Affairs
                                    -Depart of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]
                        -Office location
                              -Jackson Place
                                    -Bicentennial Commission
                              -EOB
                                    -Counselors
                                           -Cabinet
                        -Bicentennial Commission

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:08 pm.

       The President’s schedule
            -George P. Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:47 pm.

       Second term reorganization
            -Armstrong
                  -Bicentennial Commission
                        -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                              -Concern
                              -Francis J. (“Frank”) Sinatra
                                    -Chairmanship
                              -Chairmanship
                              -Garment
                  -White House staff
                        -Need for specific responsibilities
                              -Charles B. (“Bud”) Wilkinson
                                    -[National Center for Voluntary Action] [NCVA]
                              -Bryce N. Harlow’s view
                                    -Counselor to the President
                              -NCVA
                                    -Wilkinson
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                                                            Conversation No. 822-6 (cont’d)

                                   -George W. Romney
                                   -Compared to Bicentennial Commission
           -Bicentennial Commission
                -Possible failure
                -Richard M. Nixon era
                -Possible failure
                      -Congress
                      -States’ responsibility
           -Armstrong
                -Bicentennial Commission
                      -Possible failure
                -White House staff
                      -Possible staff
                      -Office location
                      -Specific responsibilities
                             -Announcement
                                   -Bicentennial Commission
                      -Political meetings
                             -Bush

      The President’s schedule
           -Shultz


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      Wilson candidacy
           -Message to Ford
           -The President’s support
                 -Fundraising
                       -House Campaign Committee
                       -Photographs with the President
           -Role for women
                 -1972 campaign
                 -Dole
                 -Clark MacGregor
                       -Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
                       -Lack of women on staff
                 -Rita E. Hauser
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                                                            Conversation No. 822-6 (cont’d)

                 -Pat Hutar
                       -Volunteer

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      Second term reorganization
           -Armstrong
                 -White House staff
                       -Politics
                       -John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
                              -Garment
                              -Modern art
                              -Nancy Hanks
                       -Bicentennial Commission
                       -Kennedy Center
                              -Modern architecture and art
                                   -The President’s view
                                   -Henry A. Kissinger
                                   -Garment
                                   -1973 Inauguration
                                         -Reviewing stand
                                         -Weather
                                   -“The Movement”
                                   -Physical appearances, lives
                                         -[Robert H. Bork]
                                               -Solicitor General
                                               -Beard
                                               -Conservatism
                                                     -Barry M. Goldwater
                                   -Lifestyle
                                   -The President’s views
                                         -Public opinion
                                   -Ted Cummings
                                   -Hollywood
                       -Compared to Chief of Protocol
                              -Image
                                   -Tobin Armstrong
                                   -The President’s travels
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                                                             Conversation No. 822-6 (cont’d)

                                           -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                       -Anne Armstrong’s schedule
                       -New Majority
                              -Bicentennial Commission
                       -Anne Armstrong’s relationship with Bush, William E. Brock, III
                       -Women
                              -Political meetings
                                     -Fights
                                           -Republican Party
                                           -Constance Armitage of National Federation of
                                             Republican Women
                              -Groups’ criticism
                              -AEC
                                     -Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
                                           -Shultz
                              -Change
                                     -Cabinet
                              -Supreme Court
                                     -Preparation
                       -Anne Armstrong’s possible conversation with Haldeman
                       -Possible title
                              -Compared to Garment’s title
                       -Office location
                              -White House, EOB
                       -Bicentennial Commission
                       -Politics
                       -Special projects
                       -South
                       -Recruitment
                       -South
                              -Democrats
                                     -Relationship with John E. Tower
                                           -Background
                                                 -Texas
                                     -Southern Republicans
                                           -Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
                                                 -Linwood Holton’s view

Armstrong and Haldeman left at 3:47 pm.
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