Conversation 397-024

On January 19, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Nellie L. Yates met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:18 pm and 3:07 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 397-024 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 397-24

Date: January 19, 1973
Time: Unknown between 1:18 pm and 3:07 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the files. This is a continuation of Conversation No.
397-17.

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       Dictation
             -Testing
             -Previous recording

       1973 Inauguration
            -Promises [?]
            -Press relations [?]

Nellie L. Yates entered at unknown time after 1:18 pm.

       Greeting

Yates left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

       1973 Inauguration
            -Photograph opportunity
            -Press relations

       Vietnam settlement [?]
            -Spiro T. Agnew [?]

       The President’s schedule [?]
            -John D. Ehrlichman [?]
            -Stephen B. Bull [?]
            -Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope

       [Pause]
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                                                        Conversation No. 397-24 (cont’d)

Vietnam settlement
     -Negotiations [?]
     -Ambassador [?]
     -President’s possible television [TV] appearance
     -Bombing [?]
     -Henry A. Kissinger
     -Signing [?]
                 -Possible travels

Second term reorganization [?]
     -John N. Mitchell
     -H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman [?]
     -Federal government
           -Relations with states
     -Unknown person
           -Personal ambition

Vietnam settlement
     -Kissinger
     -William P. Rogers
     -Congressional relations
     -Announcement
     -Bombing
     -Kissinger’s return [?]

Bryce Felder [?]
     -Organization
     -Spending [?]
     -Charles W. Colson
           -Response

Inaugural Committee
     -Chairman

Lyndon B. Johnson
     -John F. Kennedy
     -Robert F. Kennedy

Press relations [?]
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                       (rev. Jan.-09)

                                                            Conversation No. 397-24 (cont’d)

       1973 Inauguration
            -Attendance
                  -Sammy Davis, Jr.
            -Secret Service
            -Lewis Powell
            -President’s Inaugural speech [?]

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