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Start Date: 18-Sep-1972 11:37 AM

End Date: 18-Sep-1972 11:44 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Hicks, Jack O.Keller, John J.Rhatican, William F.White House operator

Recording Device: Oval Office

781-010.mp3

NARA Description:

On September 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Jack O. Hicks, John J. Keller, William F. Rhatican, and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:37 am to 11:44 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 781-010 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 781-10

Date: September 18, 1972
Time: 11:37 am - 11:44 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Jack O. Hicks, John J. Keller, and William F. Rhatican.
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                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Oct-06)


[The White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting]

            Greetings

            Miss America [Terry Ann Meeuwsen]

            Photograph session
                -Service flags
                -Navy
                -Marine Corps
                -Air Force
                -Coast Guard
                -Army
                -Navy

[Photograph session]

            1946 Congressional campaign
                -The President's conversation with [Meeuwsen and Laurie Lee Schaefer]
                    -Tricia Nixon Cox
                -Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
                -American Legion
                -American veterans [AMVETS]
                -Disabled American Veterans [DAV]
                -Support to disabled veterans
                    -"Open door" policy
                         -Donald E. Johnson
                    -The President’s view
                         -Johnson

            American Legion national convention
               -Chicago
                   -Johnson
                   -The President’s schedule
                       -Republican National Convention, Miami

            Johnson

            Hometowns
               -LaRue, Ohio
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Oct-06)

                       -Columbus
                       -Jim Thorpe
                   -Thorpe
                       -Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
                   -Character of Pennsylvania residents
                       -Recent floods in Wilkes-Barre

              J. Edgar Hoover

              Presentation of gifts by the President
                  -Cuff links
                       -Presidential seal
                  -Pins

              The President's forthcoming meeting with William M. Colmer
                  -Colmer
                      -Signing ceremony for memorial to Seabees
                  -The President's war experience
                      -Solomon Islands
                      -Seabees
                           -Green Island, New Guinea area
                                -Rabaul
                                -Finah Haven
                                -Goodenough Island
                                -Tanahmerah Bay

Hicks, et al., left at 11:44 am.