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Conversation: 826-001

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Start Date: 19-Dec-1972 8:59 AM

End Date: 19-Dec-1972 9:35 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Bull, Stephen B.Butterfield, Alexander P.

Recording Device: Oval Office

826-001.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:59 am and 9:35 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 826-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 826-1

Date: December 19, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:59 am and 9:35 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

      Republican National Committee [RNC]
           -Maurice H. Stans
                 -Meeting with the President
                 -Report
                 -Trade mission
           -John W. Rollins
           -Thomas W. Evans
           -Finance chairman
                 -Rollins
                 -Robert J. Dole
           -John N. Mitchell
           -Haldeman’s role

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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      Second term reorganization
           -Office locations
                 -The President’s conversation with Anne L. Armstrong
                       -Executive Office Building [EOB]
                             -The President’s work habits
                       -Oval Office
                             -Formal purposes
                 -Robert H. Finch
                 -Donald H. Rumsfeld
                                             -2-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. July-08)

                                                             Conversation No. 826-1 (cont’d)

                   -Roy L. Ash
                   -George P. Shultz
                         -Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
                   -Weinberger
                         -Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
                               -White House
                   -Armstrong
                         -White House
                               -Compared to EOB
                   -Crowding
                         -Lyndon B. Johnson
                   -Armstrong
                   -Peter M. Flanigan
                         -EOB
                   -Armstrong
                         -White House
                               -Shultz’s assistants
                   -Shultz
                         -EOB
                               -Counsellors
                   -Armstrong
                         -Office size
                               -Meetings
                   -Plan
                         -Supporting staffs
                         -Conference room
                   -Conference room
                         -EOB
                         -Roosevelt Room
                         -Cabinet Room
                   -Aides, secretaries

Stephen B. Bull entered at 9:20 am.

       The President’s schedule
            -Meeting with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
            -Rose Mary Woods’s schedule
            -Checks
                  -The President’s conversation with Marjorie P. Acker
                                               -3-

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. July-08)

                                                                Conversation No. 826-1 (cont’d)

              -Meeting with Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Bull left at 9:21 am.

       Second term reorganization
            -Office locations
                  -Armstrong
                        -Conversation with the President
                              -Armstrong’s conversation with Haldeman
                        -Compared to other Counsellors
                              -EOB
                              -Finch, Rumsfeld
                              -Arthur F. Burns
                                    -EOB

Bull entered at 9:24 am.

       The President’s schedule
            -Meeting with Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Bull left at 9:25 am.

       Second term reorganization
            -Office location
                  -Armstrong
                        -White House

Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 9:25 am.

       Second term reorganization
            -Butterfield
                  -[Federal Aviation Administration] [FAA]
                         -Announcement

Butterfield left and Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:25 am.

       The President’s schedule
            -Meeting with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                                                        -4-

                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                              Tape Subject Log
                                                (rev. July-08)



Bull and Haldeman left at 9:35 am.