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Start Date: 9-Jan-1973 9:34 AM

End Date: 9-Jan-1973 10:05 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Woods, Rose MaryBull, Stephen B.McFall, John J.

Recording Device: Oval Office

836-006.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 9, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Rose Mary Woods, Stephen B. Bull, and John J. McFall met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:34 am to 10:05 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 836-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 836-6

Date: January 9, 1973
Time: 9:34 am - 10:05 am
                                              -10-

                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                           Conversation No. 836-6 (cont’d)

Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

      Birthday greetings

      Press relations
              -Ronald L. Ziegler
              -Herbert G. Klein story

Rose Mary Woods entered at 9:40 am.

      Gift
             -Cost
             -Jade

      Dictation machine


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

             -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
             -Purchase

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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             -Transcription machine
             -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
             -Costs
             -White House purchase
                     -Sony
                     -Rebozo
             -White House Communications Agency [WHCA]
             -Location
                     -Camp David
                     -Florida
                     -California
                                             -11-

                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                               Conversation No. 836-6 (cont’d)

                     -Oval Office
                     -Executive Office Building [EOB]
                     -Residence
                     -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
              -Transcription machine
              -Rebozo
                     -Music
              -Recording of dinner conversations
                     -Tricia Nixon Cox
                     -Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Rose Mary Woods left at 9:42 am.

      Klein
              -Story
              -Ziegler
              -Kenneth W. Clawson
              -Charles W. Colson
              -Director of Communications
              -Staffing patterns
                      -John D. Ehrlichman
              -Motives
                      -Retention
                      -New York Time
              -Abilities
                      -Ehrlichman
              -Counselor
                      -Anne L. Armstrong
                      -Executive Office Building [EOB]
                      -Roving assignment
              -Assistant
                      -Intelligence
              -Possible duties
                      -Meetings
                               -Cabinet, National Security Council [NSC]
                      -Congressional leaders briefings
                               -Ziegler
                      -Counselor for Communications
                      -Time-Life
                      -Scripps-Howard
                                     -12-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                  Conversation No. 836-6 (cont’d)

              -Possible resignation
       -Post-administration employment
              -Compared to the President
                     -Age
       -Likeability
              -Armstrong

60th birthday interview
        -Recording
        -Age
        -Youth
        -Helen Thomas
        -Fran Lewine
        -Ziegler

Taping system
       -Control
              -Transcription
       -Knowledge of existence
              -Alexander P. Butterfield
              -Haldeman
              -Technician
              -Stephen B. Bull
       -Quality
       -Purpose
              -Writing history
       -Locations
              -Oval Office
              -Cabinet Room
              -EOB
              -Camp David
       -Note taking
       -John B. Connally
       -Sony
              -Sensitivity of microphone
              -Placement
       -Notes
       -Woods

The President's birthday interview
                                     -13-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                      Conversation No. 836-6 (cont’d)

        -Ziegler
        -Thomas
               -Notes
        -Bull
        -Archives

Klein
        -Job responsibilities
                -Counselor of Communications
                       -Prestige
                       -Cabinet rank
                       -EOB
                       -Salary

Congressional confirmations
      -Cabinet
              -1973 Inauguration
      -Subcabinet
              -Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
                      -Watergate
                             -White House legal operations
              -William E. Simon
                      -Senate Finance Committee
      -Watergate
              -Krogh
                      -Knowledge
                      -Leaks
                      -Testimony
      -Krogh
              -Qualifications
                      -Transportation Department

The President’s birthday interview
       -Age and leadership

Press relations
        -Ziegler
        -Ehrlichman
                -Domestic programs
                -Meet the Press
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                         Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                              Conversation No. 836-6 (cont’d)

              -Press conferences
                      -Questions
              -Patrick J. Buchanan
              -Vietnam settlement
                      -Focus

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:42 am.

       Telephone call
             -John J. McFall

The President talked with McFall between 10:02 am and 10:03 am.

[Conversation No. 836-6A]

[See Conversation No. 35-103]

[End of telephone conversation]

       Cultivation of Congress
              -McFall
                      -Press relations

Haldeman left at 10:05 am.