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Start Date: 21-Mar-1973 12:36 PM

End Date: 21-Mar-1973 12:53 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Rossi, Anthony T. ("Tony")Mongelli, AcheillePersico, Ralph W.[Unknown person(s)]White House photographer

Recording Device: Oval Office

886-014.mp3

NARA Description:

On March 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Anthony T. ("Tony") Rossi, Acheille Mongelli, Ralph W. Persico, unknown person(s), and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:36 pm to 12:53 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 886-014 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 886-14

Date: March 21, 1973
Time: 12:36 pm - 12:53 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Anthony T. (“Tony”) Rossi, Acheille Mongelli and Ralph W. Persico.


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

       Greetings

       Clothing company
             -Designership
                                       -27-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. Sept. 2010)
                                                    Conversation No. 886-14 (cont’d)


President’s clothes
      -Current needs
            -Color
            -Weight of fabric
      -Sport jacket
            -Rose Mary Woods
      -Perisco’s suggestions
            -Weight
            -Pattern
            -Color
      -Suits, sport jackets
            -President’s choices
                   -Color
            -Spring wardrobe
            -Size, weight
            -President’s choices, preferences
                   -Number
                   -Color
            -Material
                   -California
                   -Color, pattern
      -Sport coats
            -President’s wardrobe
            -Material

Business relationship
     -Length

Acquaintances
     -Benjamin Freeman
           -Mrs. Freeman
     -Hotel
           -Philadelphia
     -Thomas J. Dodd
     -[unintelligible name]
           -Doctors

Manolo Sanchez
                                            -28-

                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Sept. 2010)
                                                           Conversation No. 886-14 (cont’d)


      President’s clothes
            -Formal clothing
                  -Material for tuxedos
                  -Weight
                  -Color
                  -Fabric
                  -Size
                  -Style
            -Number of items ordered

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Unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:36 pm.

      President's gifts
            -Cufflinks
            -Tie bars
            -Ashtrays
            -Items from People's Republic of China [PRC]
            -Dwight D. Eisenhower coins

      Photographs
           -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins

Unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:53 pm.

      Weather
           -Snow

      Oval Office
           -Gift from Soviet Union


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

      President’s wardrobe
                                              -29-

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Sept. 2010)
                                                              Conversation No. 886-14 (cont’d)


              -Press coverage

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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The White House photographer entered at an unknown time after 12:36 pm.

        Photographs
             -Copies
             -Arrangements

Rossi, et al., left at 12:53 pm.