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Conversation: 836-004

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Start Date: 9-Jan-1973 8:28 AM

End Date: 9-Jan-1973 8:56 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)

Recording Device: Oval Office

836-004.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 9, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:28 am and 8:56 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 836-004 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 836-4

Date: January 9, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:28 am and 8:56 am
Location: Oval Office

The President dictated a memorandum.


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      The President’s birthday
             -Birthday greetings
             -Washington Times, Washington Post
             -Picture
                     -John McCrary [?]
                     -Wire service
             -Press relations
                     -Press conferences
                     -Ronald L. Ziegler

      Birthday wishes
             -White House staff

      Press relations
              -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                      -Press coverage
              -Tricia Nixon Cox
              -Monseigneur
                      -Translation
                      -California
              -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                      -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                      -Tricia Nixon Cox
                      -Press coverage
                      -News summaries
                      -1972 election
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           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                              Tape Subject Log
                               (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                     Conversation No. 836-4 (cont’d)

       -President’s isolation
               -White House staff
                       -Dwight D. Eisenhower
       -Tricia Nixon Cox
               -John A. Volpe [?]
               -The President’s personality
                       -Press coverage

Camp David
      -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
      -Mrs. Nixon
      -Secret Service
              -Swimming pool
      -Moscow trip
              -Preston Bush
      -Delivery
              -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
      -Evening habits
              -Sleep

Vietnam settlement
      -Press coverage
              -Protocol
              -Henry A. Kissinger
                     -Arrival
      -Pessimism
              -Vietnamese
                     -Rationality
              -Option two
              -Melvin R. Laird
              -Prisoners of War [POWs]
              -Missing in action [MIAs]
              -Cease-fire
              -Laird
                     -Congress
              -North Vietnamese
                     -POWs
                     -Aid cut off to South Vietnam

Second-term reorganization
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                           Conversation No. 836-4 (cont’d)

             -Herbert G. Klein
                     -Article in Washington Post
                     -The President’s personal feelings
             -Paris negotiations
                     -Comparison

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