Conversation: 683-006
Prev: 683-005 Next: 683-007Start Date: Monday, March 13, 1972 5:02 PM
End Date: Monday, March 13, 1972 5:17 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; [Unknown person(s)]; Whitman, Marina von Neumann; Whitman, Robert (Dr.); Whitman, Malcolm; Whitman, Laura; Pierce, Josephine; Stein, Herbert; Solomon, Ezra; Shultz, George P.; Safire, William L.; Franklin, Barbara H.; McArdle, Paul; White House photographerRecording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:39:53
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:54:00
NARA Description:
On March 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, unknown person(s), Marina von Neumann Whitman, Dr. Robert Whitman, Malcolm Whitman, Laura Whitman, Josephine Pierce, Herbert Stein, Ezra Solomon, George P. Shultz, William L. Safire, Barbara H. Franklin, Paul McArdle, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:02 pm and 12:17 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 683-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 683-6
Date: March 13, 1972
Time: Unknown after 12:02 pm until 12:17 pm
Location: Oval Office
Stephen B. Bull met with unknown people.
Preparations for swearing-in ceremony
Marina von N. Whitman, Dr. Robert Whitman, Malcolm Whitman, Laura Whitman, Josephine
Pierce, Herbert Stein, Ezra Solomon, George P. Shultz, William L. Safire, Barbara H. Franklin
and Judge Paul McArdle entered at an unknown time after 12:02 pm; the White House
photographer and members of the press were present.
Swearing-in ceremony
-Positions
-Marina Whitman
-Robert Whitman
-McArdle
-Shultz
-Solomon
[General conversation]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-01)
Conv. No. 683-6 (cont.)
The President entered at 12:05 pm.
Swearing-in ceremony
-McArdle
-Oath of office
-Whitman
Malcolm and Laura Whitman
Photographs
-Copies
-Family
-Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]
Economy
-Prices
-Unemployment
Photographs
-Shultz
Gifts
-Cufflinks
CEA
-Reports
-Wording
-Stein
Whitman’s mother
-Elephants
Washington, DC
-Weather
-Trees
-Magnolias
-Crab apples
-Tulips
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-01)
Conv. No. 683-6 (cont.)
Gift [“Star of the President”]
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Ambassador
-France
-Steuben glass
CEZ
-Whitman
-First woman
-Chairman
Oval Office
-Paintings
-George Washington
-Rembrandt Peale
-Father
-Charles Wilson Peale
-Crewelwork
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Paintings
-White House
-Wings
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Tree
-Peking
Pandas
-Washington National Zoo
-Outside the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-London
-Another European city
-Pair
-Soviet Union
Bean birds
-Gift
Whitman, et al. left at 12:17 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Aug-01)
Conv. No. 683-6 (cont.)
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with Ronald S. Berman
Steuben glass [“Star of the President”]
Bull left at 12:17 pm.