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Start Date: 28-Jan-1972 2:24 PM

End Date: 28-Jan-1972 2:51 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Woods, Rose MaryBull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:13:18

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 03:39:49

659a.mp3

659b.mp3

659c.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:24 pm to 2:51 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 659-010 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 659-10
                                            32

                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/06)




Date: January 28, 1972
Time: 2:24 pm - 2:51 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

     White House dinner for DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace, January 28, 1972
          -John B. and Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally’s attendance
          -Illness of invitees
                -John Connally
                -Influenza
                -Elmer H. Bobst
                -Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser
                       -Wife
                -Cancellation call from Nellie Connally
                       -Attendance

     Robert P. Griffin
         -Letter
         -Photograph

     Influenza

     Room temperature
         -The President’s request of Manolo Sanchez

     Dinner for Wallaces
          -Seating arrangements
                -Laurance S. and Mary Rockefeller
                      -Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
                -Charles A. and Anne (Morrow) Lindbergh
                -Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
                      -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                      -Celebrity status
                      -Lucy A. Winchester
                      -Nellie Connally
                -The President’s preference
                      -Mary Rockefeller
                -Lila Wallace
                      -Placement
                            33

         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                    Tape Subject Log
                      (rev. 10/06)
                                              Conv. No. 659-10 (cont.)


-Congressional attendance
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Norman Vincent Peale
-Lionel Hampton
      -Mrs. Nixon
-Stephen W. Royce
-Charles and Anne Lindbergh
-Fred MacMurray
-Allison DeWitt
-Katharine Rollins
-Mrs. John A. Mulcahy
-Harold H. Helm
-G. Keith Funston
-Thomas A. Pappas
-W. Allen Wallis
-George Champion
      -Attitude toward the President
            -Mrs. Nixon
            -Economics
-Funston
      -Olin-Mathieson Chemical Corporation
-Martin S. Hayden, Sr.
-Laurance Rockefeller
      -Previous invitation
-[Richard G. Lugar]
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Woods’s attendance
      -Late arrival
-Mrs. Lila Tyng
      -Henry R. Luce
            -Wife
      -Hank Luce
      -Lewis
-Winchester
-Hope
-Nellie Connally
                                         34

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                   Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. 10/06)
                                                                 Conv. No. 659-10 (cont.)


The President’s schedule
     -Camp David
          -Weather
          -Reading

Woods’s schedule
    -Renwick Gallery opening
          -Restoration
          -Warren E. Burger
    -Woods’s conversation with John A. Volpe
          -Volpe’s son’s [Jack’s] health
               -Possible call from the President to Jack Volpe

Dinner lists
     -Burger
            -Popularity
     -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
     -Charles W. Colson
     -Unknown person
     -Repetition
            -Need for new faces
                 -MacMurray
                 -June Haver
                 -Taft Schreiber

Letter from Maurice H. Stans

Equal Rights Amendment [ERA]
     -John D. Ehrlichman’s memorandum
     -Mitchell’s view

Unemployment
    -John B. Connally’s letter
    -Price Commission
          -Donald H. Rumsfeld

Campaign financing
    -Howard Simon
         -Request for meeting with the President
         -Contribution
               -Maurice H. Stans
                                         35

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)
                                                                   Conv. No. 659-10 (cont.)


           -Location
           -Stans, Herbert W. Kalmbach
           -Fundraising

The President’s schedule
     -California

[Fund-raising campaign for athletic hall of fame at Whittier College]
     -Use of President’s name
     -Letter from Kenneth L. Ball
           -Clinton Harris
                 -Response

Letter from Richard M. Helms
      -The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972

Letter from L. Richard Guylay
      -New York

Letter from I. Irving Davidson
      -Indonesia lobby
      -Meeting with George Meany on airplane

Letter from [unknown person]
      -European Community
      -Henry A. Kissinger

Office procedure
     -Mail
           -Reading
           -Possible contact

Dinner party
     -Late invitations
           -Haldeman
           -Tayloe House
           -Wallaces
                 -Reception
                 -Entertainment
                       -Mrs. Nixon
                       -Television
                                             36

                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                 Conv. No. 659-10 (cont.)


          -Seating
                -Arrangement
                      -Winchester
                -Longworth
                      -Mrs. Nixon
                -Hayden
                -Laurance Rockefeller
                -Nelson A. Rockefeller
                -Ronald W. Reagan
                -Lugar
                -Royce
                -Hampton
                -Charles Lindbergh
                -Andre Kostelanetz
                -Mulcahy
                -Rollins
                -Pappas
                -Conversation
                      -Lindbergh
                      -Longworth
                -Wallaces
                -Laurance Rockefeller
                -Hayden
                -Funston
                -Howard A. Rusk
                -Peter Mennin
                      -The Julliard School
                -Charles Lindbergh
                -Rusk
                -Laurance Rockefeller
                -Mrs. Rollins
                -Mrs. Mulcahy
                -Delores (Reade) Hope
                -Louise Seymour
                      -J. Walter Thompson Company
                -Mrs. James A. Suffridge
                -Mrs. Tyng

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:24 pm.

     Kissinger’s schedule
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                    Conv. No. 659-10 (cont.)



Bull left at an unknown time before 2:51 pm.

     Dinner party
          -Guests
                -Women
                -Mrs. Nixon
                -Ehrlichman
                -Julie Nixon Eisenhower

     Letters

Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:24 pm.

     Kissinger’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:51 pm.

     Letters

     Julie Nixon Eisenhower

     Edward M. Kennedy

     Dinner party
          -Guests

Woods left at 2:51 pm.