Conversation: 826-006
Prev: 826-005 Next: 826-007Start Date: Tuesday, December 19, 1972 4:52 PM
End Date: Tuesday, December 19, 1972 5:05 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Van Dusen, Richard C.; Cole, Kenneth R., Jr.; White House photographerRecording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On December 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Richard C. Van Dusen, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:52 am to 12:05 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 826-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 826-6
Date: December 19, 1972
Time: 11:52 am - 12:05 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Richard C. Van Dusen and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. The White House
photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.
Greetings
Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Van Dusen’s job
[Photograph session]
Van Dusen’s plans
-Detroit law firm, Dickinson, Wright, McKean & Cudlip
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)
Conversation No. 826-6 (cont’d)
-Age
Van Dusen’s job
-HUD
-George W. Romney
-Departure
-Timing
-Promotion of Van Dusen
-Change of mind
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Politics
-Experience
-Television [TV]
-Age
-Congressional candidacy
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Van Dusen
-Law practice
-Lark M. Clifford
-Dean G. Acheson
-Access to White House
-Cole
-John D. Ehrlichman
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
-Michigan
-Governorship
-William G. Milliken
-Philip A. Hart
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)
Conversation No. 826-6 (cont’d)
-Senate
-Age
-Stamina
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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Second term reorganization
-Van Dusen
-Judgeship
-Court of appeals
-Supreme Court
-Circuit Court
-Isolation
-Timing
-Ehrlichman
-Stephen J. Roth
-Trial judge
-Robert P. Griffin
-Senate
-Charles E. Hughes
-Kenneth B. Keating
HUD
-Difficulties
-Blacks
-Model Cities Program
-Van Dusen’s performance
-Budget
-The President’s appreciation
Van Dusen
-Politics
Second term reorganization
-Van Dusen
-Judgeship
-The President’s conversations with Ehrlichman
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)
Conversation No. 826-6 (cont’d)
-Age
-Retirements
-Dickinson, Wright, McKean & Cudlip
-Senior lawyers
Law
-Dickinson, Wright, McKean & Cudlip
-Size
-Partners, lawyers
-Van Dusen’s future
-Heads of firm
-New York
-Moneymaking
White House gifts
-Ashtray
-Presidential signature
-Raise, judgeship
HUD
-Van Dusen’s experience
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Van Dusen’s plans
-Political candidacy
-Hart
-Visibility
Washington Redskins
-Football game
[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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The President’s appreciation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. July-08)
Conversation No. 826-6 (cont’d)
White House social affairs
-Cabinet dinner
-Under Secretaries
-Van Dusen
-Barbara (Congdon) Van Dusen
-Fred Waring
-Age
-The President’s conversation with Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Van Dusen and Cole left at 12:05 pm.