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Start Date: 8-Jan-1973 5:49 PM

End Date: 8-Jan-1973 6:04 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Bull, Stephen B.Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: Oval Office

837-001.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 8, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:49 pm and 6:04 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 837-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 837-1

Date: January 8, 1973
Time: Unknown between 5:49 pm and 6:04 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. This recording began
while the conversation was in progress.

       President's schedule
              -Maurice J. Williams
              -Kenneth K. Cole, Jr.
              -Col. Richard T. Kennedy
                      -Williams
                      -Press statement
                      -Nicaraguan earthquake relief

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:09 pm.

       President's birthday


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

              -Time of birth
                     -President’s mother
                     -Family Bible
                     -Birth certificate
              -Place of birth
                     -Orange County
                              -Yorba Linda

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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              -Haldeman
                                            -2-

                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                     (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                              Conversation No. 837-1 (cont’d)

             -Haldeman children
             -Record keeping

      George D. Webster nomination
            -Charles W. Colson
            -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] report
                   -Response
                   -Webster’ financial practices
                          -Law firm
                          -Delayed tax payments


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 12s]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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             -Webster’s financial practices
                    -Legality
                    -Colson
             -Johnnie M. Walters
                    -Other candidates
                            -Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
                            -Replacement
                            -Chicago

      Anna C. Chennault
            -“Dragon Lady”
            -John N. Mitchell
            -Conversation with Haldeman
            -Bui Diem
            -Nguyen Van Thieu
                   -Direct contact
            -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

      1968 plane bugging
                                         -3-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                              Tape Subject Log
                               (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                    Conversation No. 837-1 (cont’d)

       -Cartha D. DeLoach
       -J. Edgar Hoover
              -Mitchell
       -Lyndon B. Johnson
              -George E. Christian
                     -Conversation with Lyndon B. Johnson
              -John B. Connally
       -Dwayne O. Andreas
              -Hubert H. Humphrey
              -Mitchell
              -Andreas
                     -Humphrey
              -Johnson

Webster’s nomination
      -Colson
      -George Meany
             -Opposition
      -Right-to-work
      -IRS Commissioner
             -Union tax exemptions
      -Webster
             -Friendship
      -Loyalty compared to intelligence

President's schedule
       -Roy L. Ash

Second term reorganization
      -George P. Shultz
      -Ash
              -Personality
      -Connally
              -Press relations
      -Shultz
              -Congressional relations
                      -Integrity
                      -Tenacity
                      -Diplomacy
                                       -4-

            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                        Conversation No. 837-1 (cont’d)

       -Anne L. Armstrong
             -Bicentennial Commission
             -Spiro T. Agnew
                    -Francis M. (“Frank”) Sinatra

1973 Inauguration
       -American music concert
               -Sinatra
                       -Master of Ceremonies
       -Italian cardinal
       -Church service
               -Rose Mary Woods
               -Attendees
                       -Service secretaries
                       -Assistant Secretaries
                       -Number
                       -Republican Party people
                       -Administration personnel
                               -Clark MacGregor
                               -Cabinet members
                               -Under Secretaries
                               -Agency heads
                       -Participation by relatives
                               -Limits
                               -President's brothers
                               -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's brothers
                               -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                               -Tricia Nixon Cox
                               -Agnew’s family

Second term reorganization
      -Webster
      -Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
              -Candidates
              -L Patrick (“Pat”) Gray
              -Ambassadorial post
              -Bonn, Germany
      -FBI
      -Mitchell
              -Federal attorney
                                               -5-

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                         Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                             Conversation No. 837-1 (cont’d)

               -William D. Ruckelshaus
               -Ambassadorial post
               -Bonn, Germany

Haldeman left at 6:09 pm.