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Conversation: 843-002

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Start Date: 26-Jan-1973 7:52 AM

End Date: 26-Jan-1973 7:54 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Acker, Marjorie P.

Recording Device: Oval Office

843-002.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 26, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Marjorie P. Acker met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 7:52 am and 7:54 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 843-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 843-2

Date: January 26, 1973
Time: Unknown between 7:52 am and 8:27 am
Location: Oval Office

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

       Press relations
             -The President's schedule
                    -Trip to California to meet Prisoners of War [POWs]
             -Washington Post
             -White House staff

Marjorie P. Acker entered at 7:54 am.

       The President's schedule
            -Edward R.G. Heath dinner
                  -Congressional invitees
                  -Rose Mary Woods

Acker left at 7:55 am.
                                              -2-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                                Conversation No. 843-2 (cont’d)


       State Department
             -Secretary of Defense
             -Henry A. Kissinger
             -Defense Department
             -Joint Chiefs of Staff
             -POWs
             -Kissinger

       Ronald L. Ziegler
            -Statement

       Peter J. Brennan
             -John D. Ehrlichman
             -Labor Department staff
             -The President's father
                   -Bad grammar
             -Labor Department staff
                   -Donald F. Rodgers
                   -Thomas
             -Charles W. Colson
                   -Desmond J. Barker, Jr.

       Press relations
             -POWs

       Cabinet
            -New members
            -Call from the President
            -Ehrlichman

       The President's schedule
            -Wilbur D. Mills
                  -The President’s possible visit to Arkansas

       List of invitees
             -Speaker of the House
             -Gerald R. Ford

Acker entered at 8:02 am.
                                            -3-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                            Conversation No. 843-2 (cont’d)


       The President's schedule
            -State dinners
            -Size of room
            -Attendees
                   -Donald M. Kendall
                   -William P. Rogers
                   -Mark Johnson
                   -D. Kenneth Rush
                   -Woods
                   -Kissinger
                   -Hugh Scott and Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
                   -Ford, Carl B. Albert, George H. Mahon and Mills
                   -John C. Stennis
                   -Barry M. Goldwater
            -Congressional leaders
                   -William E. Timmons
                   -Heath, Eisaku Sato and Golda Meir
            -Goldwater, Stennis, Mahon, Mills and Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
            -Samuel L. Devine
            -Timmons
            -Scott
            -Rogers
                   -Kissinger
                   -[Hussein, King of Jordan] Hussein ibn Talal
                          -Wife
            -Dress protocol
                   -Hussein
                   -Meir
            -John B. Connally
            -Logistics
            -Acker, Woods and Timmons
            -Hussein
                   -List of guests

Acker left at 8:17 am.

       The President's schedule
            -State dinners
            -Heath's visit
                                            -4-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                             Conversation No. 843-2 (cont’d)

                   -Kissinger
                         -Camp David
             -Hussein
             -Heath
                   -Possible embassy luncheon
             -Georges Pompidou
             -Camp David
             -Kissinger

       Vietnam settlement
            -Press relations
                  -Cambodia, Laos
                  -Washington Post
                         -Colson
                  -Editorials
            -The President's schedule
                  -Daily news summaries
                         -Editorials
                               -Rogers
                                     -London Telegraph

       The President's schedule
            -Ehrlichman
                  -Patrick J. Buchanan, George P. Shultz and Roy L. Ash
                  -Earl L. Butz
            -Agendas
            -Editorials

The President and Haldeman left at an unknown time before 8:27 am.