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Start Date: 12-Jan-1973 10:30 AM

End Date: 12-Jan-1973 11:25 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Woods, Rose MaryAcker, Marjorie P.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

396-001.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Rose Mary Woods, and Marjorie P. Acker met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:30 am and 11:25 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 396-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 395-26/396-1

Date: January 12, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:30 am and 11:25 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Rose Mary Woods, and Marjorie P. Acker.
The recording began while the conversation was in progress. This is a continuation of
Conversation No. 395-26.

[An unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded while the tape was changed.]

       Dictation machine
             -Operation
                  -Portability
                  -Complexity
                  -Compared to other machines
                        -Moscow


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

       1973 Inauguration
            President’s attire

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       Dictation machine
             -President's use
                   -Memoranda for the file
                   -Lincoln sitting room
                   -Private memoranda
                   -Oval Office
                   -Executive Office Building [EOB]
             -Compared with other machines
                                             -2-

                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Jan.-09)

                                                       Conversation No. 395-26/396-1 (cont’d)

                 -Portability
           -President's use
                 -Lincoln sitting room
                 -Oval Office
                 -EOB office
                 -Key Biscayne
                 -San Clemente, California
           -Operation
                 -Testing
                 -Florida


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

      1973 Inauguration
           -President’s attire
                 -Ties
                       -Delivery
                       -Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                 -Coat
                       -Zosimo T. Monson
                               -Ronald L. Ziegler
                                            -Article in Women’s Wear Daily
                                                  -Tricia Nixon Cox’s wedding
                               -Style
                                      -Inaugural manual
                                      -Dwight D. Eisenhower’s inauguration
                 -Ties
                       -Selection
                       -Mrs. Nixon
                       -Call to [First name unknown] Calkridge [?]
                               -H.E. Harris [?]
                       -Mrs. Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                       -President’s call to Muriel (“Honey”) Berlin
                               -Patricia R. Mosbacher
                                      -Dinner for Elliot L. Richardson [?]
                               -Designs
                                      -Fiber content
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Jan.-09)

                                                  Conversation No. 395-26/396-1 (cont’d)

       Cartoon
            -James Berryman
            -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                   -Tricia Nixon Cox
            -Haldeman’s sister
                   -Haldeman’s mother
            -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
            -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
            -Berryman [?]

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       President's schedule
             -Florida
                    -Mrs. Nixon

       1973 Inauguration
            -Congress
            -Honorary chairman
                  -Inaugural committee
                         -Recommendation
                  -Republican
            -Ceremony
            -Invitations
                  -White House Staff
                  -Balls
                  -Protocol

Woods and Acker left at 11:15 am.

       Second term reorganization
            -John Mulcahy
                  -Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
                        -Assistant Secretary
            -Campaign donors
                  -Inaugural committee
                  -1973 Inauguration
                        -Events
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Jan.-09)

                                                      Conversation No. 395-26/396-1 (cont’d)

                  -Maurice H. Stans
            -Charles W. Colson
            -Press relations
                  -John Scali
                         -Compared to Ziegler
            -John D. Ehrlichman
                  -Colson
            -Elliot L. Richardson
            -George W. Romney, John A. Volpe
            -Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld
            -Herbert G. Klein
            -John B. Connally
            -John N. Mitchell
            -George H.W. Bush

       Vietnam settlement
            -Announcement
            -Henry A. Kissinger
                  -Call to Colson
            -Kissinger’s trip to Hanoi
                  -Plans
                  -Size of Vietnam [?]
                         -Compared to US
                         -Compared to California and Texas

Haldeman left at 11:25 am.