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Conversation: 829-037

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Start Date: 2-Jan-1973 1:00 PM

End Date: 2-Jan-1973 1:14 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Timmons, William E.

Recording Device: Oval Office

829-037.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and William E. Timmons met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:00 pm to 1:14 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 829-037 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 829-37

Date: January 2, 1973
Time: 1:00 pm - 1:14 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with William E. Timmons at 1:00 pm.

      Telephone calls
           -Completion

      End the war resolution
            -Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield's meeting with President
                  -Thomas E. Morgan
            -Democratic caucus
                  -Political orientation
            -Effect of the President's meeting with Mansfield
            -Carl B. Albert
                  -Control of caucus
                  -Speaker of the House election
                  -Meeting with the President
                         -Telephone call
                               -Timing
            -Vietnam negotiations
            -Irresponsibility

      The President’s schedule
           -Meeting with Albert
                 -Timmons’ telephone call
                        -Mansfield
                        -Democratic caucus
                        -Bipartisan meeting
                 -Truman memorial service
                 -Timing
                 -Bipartisan meeting
                        -Wage and price controls
                 -Democratic caucus
                        -Mansfield, Albert
                        -Hubert H. Humphrey
                        -William B. Saxbe
                                          -46-

                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                   Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. Sept.-08)

                                                      Conversation No. 829-37 (cont’d)

           -Meeting with Mansfield
                -Democratic caucus
                -Henry A. Kissinger briefing


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           -Breakfast with freshman Republicans
                 -Gerald R. Ford
                 -Relations with White House
                 -Minority
                 -Candidate selection
                 -Saxbe

      Congressional relations
           -William E. Brock, III
                 -Edward W. Brooke
           -Clarence G. Brown
           -Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
                 -Compared to Robert J. Dole
                 -Departure
                 -Budget Committee
                 -Candidate recruitment
           -Dan H. Kuykendall
                 -Brown
                       -Support for Wilson

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                      -Armed Services Committee
                            -Whip
                            -William G. Bray
           -Age of Republicans
                -Bray
                -William B. Widnall, III
                -Norris Cotton
                -Milton R. Young
                                            -47-

                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Sept.-08)

                                                         Conversation No. 829-37 (cont’d)

                 -George D. Aiken
                 -Roman L. Hruska
                 -Strom Thurmond
                 -Hugh Scott
                 -Peter V. Domenici
            -Reception

       The President’s schedule
            -Meeting with Mansfield

Timmons left at 1:14 pm.