Conversation: 827-012
Prev: 827-011 Next: 827-013Start Date: 20-Dec-1972 1:53 PM
End Date: 20-Dec-1972 2:20 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Woods, Rose Mary; Bull, Stephen B.;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On December 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Rose Mary Woods, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:53 pm to 2:20 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 827-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 827-12
Date: December 20, 1972
Time: 1:53 pm - 2:20 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at 1:53 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Christmas message
-Radio
-Television [TV]
-Thanksgiving message
-TV
-1973 Inauguration
-Necessity
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)
Conversation No. 827-12 (cont’d)
-Harry S. Truman
-Health
-Life expectancy
-Liver
-William M. Lukash
-Life expectancy
-Christmas message
-Necessity
-Statement
-Jews
-Thanksgiving
-New Year’s Day
-New Year’s Day message
-1973 Inauguration
-1973 Inaugural address
-Book about Inaugural addresses
-The President’s schedule
-Trip to Florida
-Telephone calls
-Congressional relations
-James O. Eastland
-John C. Stennis
-Republicans
-Timing
-New Year’s Day
-Christmas
-Return to White House
-White House staff’s schedule
-Need for break
-Recent past
-1972 election
-1972 campaign
-Vietnam War
-Watergate
-White House staff’s schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Status quo
-Second term reorganization
-Cabinet, Under Secretaries, agency heads
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)
Conversation No. 827-12 (cont’d)
-Meetings with ambassadors
-Timing
-Meeting with Maurice H. Stans
-Rose Mary Woods
-Doctors
-Congressional relations
-State of the Union address
-William H. Timmons
-Written statement
-1973 Inaugural address
-Bipartisan leadership meetings
-Bipartisanship leadership meetings
-Timing
-1973 Inauguration
-Congressional organization
-Executive reorganization
-Bryce N. Harlow
-Vietnam War message
-Telephone calls
-Democratic Sentators from Louisiana [J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.],
George [Sam Nunn], and Kentucky [Walter (Dee) Huddleston]
-Allen J. Ellender
-John Sherman Cooper
-David H. Gambrell
-Florida
Vietnam War
-US bombing north of 20th Parallel
-Public relations [PR]
-The President’s conversation with Charles W. Colson
-Haldeman’s and Kissinger’s views
-Scale of bombing
-Hanoi
-Aircraft losses
-B-52s
-1971
-Hanoi
-Timing
-Kissinger’s view
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)
Conversation No. 827-12 (cont’d)
-Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Gen. John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Kissinger’s view
-Winston S. Churchill
-Defenses around Hanoi
-Surface to air missiles [SAMs]
-PR
-Future
-The President’s conversation with Colson
-Instruction for Harlow to call Robert J. Dole
-Haldeman’s conversation with Dole
-Dole’s schedule
-Kansas
-Dole’s statement
-Press relations
-Television [TV]
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
Chairmanship
-Edward M. Kennedy’s speech
-Congressional relations
-The President
-Dole’s Republican identity
Mrs. Clifford F. Moore
Washington Post article by [Ronald Kessler], “A Glimpse of the private Nixon-by
Longtime Sitter”
The President talked with Rose Mary Woods at an unknown time between 1:53 pm and 2:00 pm.
[Conversation No. 827-12A]
Mrs. Moore
-Kessler’s article
-1969 Inauguration
-Lack of invitation
-Request for a meeting with Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox in
1970
-White House aid
-Mrs. Moore’s background
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)
Conversation No. 827-12 (cont’d)
-Babysitter
-Church service
-Invitation
-Roger E. and Louise Johnson
-John and Mrs. Wardlow
-Timing
-1973 Inauguration
-Address
-Outbox
-Letter from the President
-Washington Post article
-Interview
-Quality
-Mrs. Moore’s work fro the President’s family
-Church service invitation
[End of telephone conversation]
John M Shaheen
-Edward C. Nixon
-Possible telephone call from Haldeman
-Nixon Foundation
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 1:53 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with [Edward V. Jones and family]
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-“Double buzz”
Bull left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm.
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Nixon Foundation
-Shaheen
-Establishment
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)
Conversation No. 827-12 (cont’d)
-Jack and Helene (Colesie) Drown
-Discussion
-Shaheen
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Haldeman left at 2:20 pm.