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Conversation: 837-003

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

End Date: 10-Jan-1973 2:24 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Bull, Stephen B.Woods, Rose MarySanchez, ManoloHaldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: Oval Office

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NARA Description:

On January 10, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Rose Mary Woods, Manolo Sanchez, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:05 am and 2:24 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 837-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 837-3

Date: January 10, 1973
Time: Unknown between 9:05 am and 2:24 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

       President's schedule
              -John D. Ehrlichman
              -Donald E. Johnson
                      -Veterans Administration
              -Members of Council on Environmental Quality [CEQ]
              -Ehrlichman
              -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
              -Nicaragua [?]

Rose Mary Woods entered at 9:14 am.

       President's surprise birthday party.

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:56 am.

              -Gifts
                     -Robert H. Abplanalp
                     -Man without Massachusetts and District of Columbia
                            -Abplanalp
              -Dorothy [surname unknown]
              -Charles G (“Bebe”) Rebozo
              -Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
              -Paul W. Keyes
              - White House third floor
                     - Refreshments
                     -Redecoration
                     -Manolo Sanchez


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                 -Film
                          -Keyes
                          -Dan Rowan and Dick Martin
                          -National Football League monologue
                          -Repeat showing

        Film showing
               -Staff
                        -Theater
                 -Haldeman
                 -Executive Office Building [EOB]
                        -Conference room

        Birthday gifts
               -Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker [?]
               -William F. (“Billy”) Graham
                       -Telephone call

        For Your Information [FYI] folder
              -Birthday messages
              -Inaugural address

        President's schedule
               -Florida trip
               -Henry A. Kissinger
                       -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
               -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                       -Camp David
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                 -Florida
                 -Camp David
                        -Isolation
                        -President’s work

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                          -Florida
                                 -Sunshine
                                 -Appearance
                                 -December 1972 trip
                                        -Pool

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                 -Florida
                        -Woods
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                                                             Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

                        -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                        -Other staff
                               -Domestic policy message

       President's correspondence
              -Rowan and Martin
              -Keyes
                       -Telephone call to Rowan and Martin
              -Rowan and Martin film
              -Showing for White House staff
              -National Football League
                       -Pete Rozelle
                       -Staple [first name unknown]

The President dictated a letter to Staple.

               -Birthday party
               -Film
                      -Rowan and Martin
                      -Keyes
               -Expression of appreciation

[End of dictation]

       Film
               -Keyes
                      -Editing
               -Rowan and Martin
               -Ronald L. Ziegler
               -White House press corps


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                 -John B. Connally

        Letter to Connally
                -Instructions to Woods
                -Graham letter

        Surprise birthday party
               -Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox


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                 -Blue Room
                         -Decorations
                         -Wallpaper
                 -Patrick J. Buchanan
                         -Portrait of President
                         -Book on the 1972 election
                         -Captions on portrait
                 -Rebozo, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                 -Rebozo
                         -Caricatures
                         -Telegrams
                 -Keyes
                 -White House staff
                         -Parties
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                     -Film showing
                             -Secretaries
                     -Noble Melencamp
                     -William J. Hopkins
                     -State Department
                     -Correspondence Section
                     -Presidential appointment

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am.

       Sanchez's appearance

       Film showing
              -Helene Colesie Drown
              -Unknown woman
              -Kissinger
              -Haig
              -President’s enjoyment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:20 pm.


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       Birthday guests
              -Roger E. Johnson
                     -Health
              -Keyes
              -Rebozo

       Abplanalp, Lewis
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                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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                                                                             Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

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        Louise Johnson and Roger E. Johnson
               -Helene Colesie Drown and Jack Drown

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        Films
                 -Old films compared to new films
                 -1776
                         -Wood’s recommendation
                 -Young Winston
                 -President's film schedule
                 -Actress


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        Florida land sales
               -Tricia Nixon Cox
                       -Investment
                       -Rebozo

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        Barbara Eisenhower's letter to President
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                                                           Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

              -Birthday party


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       1973 Inauguration
              -Church service
                     -Mamie G. D. Eisenhower
                     -John S. D. Eisenhower and Barbara Eisenhower
                     -Haldeman
                     -Cox family
                             -Children
                     -Limits on invitations
                             -John M. Shaheen
                                    -Nova Scotia
                                    -President’s brothers
                     -Mrs. Nixon
                     -Tricia Nixon Cox
                     -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                     -Congress members
              -Attendance of relatives


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              -Ned Sullivan
              -Edward C. and F. Donald Nixon
                    -Arrangements
                    -John Eisenhower and Barbara Eisenhower

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              -Travel accommodations
                      -President's family, Mrs. Nixon's family
              -Mamie G. D. Eisenhower
              -[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
              -John Eisenhower and Barbara Eisenhower
              -Relatives' attendance
                      -Donald Nixon
              -Parties
              -Musical events
                      -Inaugural concerts
                      -Washington National Symphony
                              -Conductor
                      -Philadelphia Symphony
                              -Eugene Ormandy
                      -Washington National Symphony
                              -Fundraising
                              -Shoreham Hotel
                              -George S. McGovern

       President's feelings about the District of Columbia
              -Redskins fan
              -Opposition to President
                       -Blacks

       Haldeman
             -President's phone

Haldeman entered at 9:56 am.

       President's feelings about the District of Columbia
              -Opposition to President
                       -Blacks, whites, Jews
              -Compared to Los Angeles
                       -Cavalcade of musical comedy
                              -Sterling Holloway

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:56 am.
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       President's schedule
              -Counsellors
              -Earl L. Butz
              -James T. Lynn
              -Caspar W. Weinberger, Jr.
              -Russell E. Train
              -John B. Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:20 pm.

       Second term reorganization
             -Lewis
             -James Keogh
             -Frank Stanton
                     -United States Information Agency [USIA] Board
             -Donald McI. Kendall
                     -Stanton
                             -American Red Cross Chairman
             -Frank Shakespeare
             -Michael J. O'Neill
             -Broadcasting
                     -USIA Board
                     -State Department
                     -Stanton
                     -Leonard Wrench
                             -Cox Broadcasting
                             -John F. Kennedy
                             -Connally
                     -O'Neill
                             -Daily News
                     -Lewis
                     -Stanton

       Television [TV] networks
              -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
                     -President’s evaluations

       Second term reorganization
             -American Red Cross board of directors
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             -Kendall
             -E. Roland Harriman
             -Stanton
             -Cliff Folger
             -Leonard Hall
             -Folger
             -Kendall
             -Stanton
                     -CBS
             -Nominating Committee
                     -Sol Linowitz
                            -Opposition to President
                            -Xerox
                            -Maurice Stans
                                    -“S” list
                            -Elliot L. Richardson
                            -Rowland Harriman
                            -Stanton
                            -Charles W. Colson
                            -Kendall
                            -Pogue, Keogh

1972 campaign contributions
       -Business Council
              -Kendall
              -McGovern
              -Lack of support
       -Stans
              -Lists of contributors
              -“S” list
                      -Security
       -Daniel J. Evans
       -Stans
              -Herbert Brownell
              -Daniel Ludwig
              -Interior Department
              -Brownell
       -Cornelius V. (“Sonny”) Whitney
              -Ambassadorship to Spain
              -Appearance
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                                                   Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

      -Jack Dreyfus
             -Dilantin
             -Stans

Dilantin
       -Stans’ use
               -1972 campaign
       -Epilepsy medication
       -Dreyfus’ opinion
       -President’s use
               -Sleep aid
       -Stans’ use
               -Stress
               -Wife
               -Watergate
               -Money
               -Dreyfus

Second term reorganization
      -Whitney
      -Folger
      -Stans' businessmen
      -Folger's wife
              -Kennedy Center Foundation
                     -Board member

Kennedy Center
      -Name change
      -Eisenhower Theatre
      -Johnson Opera House
      -Nixon Concert Hall

Memorials
     -Harry S. Truman
            -Presidency
            -Abilities, character
            -Atomic bomb
            -Greece
            -Korean War
            -General Douglas Macarthur firing
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                                                       Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

                      -President’s opinion
                      -Advice on Korea
                             -Bombing of China
                                     -Yalu River
                      -Compared to President
                             -Role of generals
                                     -Cambodia
                                     -May 8, 1972 decision
                             -Congress
                             -Future writings

1973 Inauguration activities
       -Ned Sullivan
              -Planning

Film showing
       -Keyes
       -Martin and Rowan
       -White House staff
       -Ziegler
              -Press
       -Scheduling
       -Ann Bolt
       -Location
              -Seating
       -Herbert G. Klein
       -Previous campaign staff

Second term reorganization
      -Lewis

Raising of issues with President
       -Dwight Eisenhower
       -Burning Tree Country Club
       -Lewis
               -Stanton
       -Rebozo
               -Ehrlichman
       -Bicentennial Commission
               -Lewis recommendation
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                                                          Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

               -Executive Director
               -David Mahoney
                      -Norton Simon
                      -Norton Simon Company
                              -Canada Dry
               -Kendall
                      -Folger
               -Stanton
                      -CBS
                              -Daniel Shorr
                                     -TV special
                                     -Shultz

Press relations
        -Howard K. Smith
                -Keyes
                -[Pope Paul VI] Giovanni Battista Motini
                -Bombing
                        -Franklin D. Roosevelt
                                -Casualties
                -Truman
                        -Atomic bombing
                -Dwight Eisenhower
                        -North Korea
                                -“Terror bombing”
                                       -Civilian population
        -Compared to President
                -Vietnam
                -Carpet bombing
                        -Civilian casualties
        -Shorr
                -Wage and price controls announcement
                -Shultz
                        -Possible answer
                                -Shorr’s misinformation
                -Ehrlichman
                        -Possible answer
                -Shorr’s analysis
                        -Claude S. Brinegar
                -[Arnold] Eric Sevareid's comment
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                                                  Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)


Daniel Shorr
       -FBI investigation
               -North Vietnamese
                       -Contacts
               -J. Edgar Hoover
               -Partisanship
               -Dwight Eisenhower
       -President’s critics
               -1972 election
               -Ziegler
               -President's reaction
       -Indoctrination of new staff
       -Cambodia
       -May 8, 1972 decision
       -Social events
               -Klein

Washington National Symphony
      -Rose Mary Woods's conversation with unknown person
      -President's efforts on behalf
      -Jean Nelson
             -Symphony Board
             -Conversation with Haldeman
      -Outreach programs
             -Electoral support for President
                      -Blacks
                      -Whites
      -David Kreeger
             -Chairman
             -McGovern

Philadelphia Symphony
       -McGovern
       -Eugene Ormandy
              -Political support
       -Van Cliburn
              -Political support
       -Antal Dorati
              -Political support
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                                                        Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)


      Inaugural concert
             -Edvard Grieg concerto
             -“Polanaise”
             -Grieg
                     -Scandinavians
             -Poles
                     -New Majority
             -Peter Tchaikovsky
                     -Piano concerto
                     -"1812 Overture"
             -“Polonaise”
             -Grieg
             -Wolfgang Mozart
             -Ludwig Beethoven
             -Mozart
                     -Paris
                     -Ambassador
             -Ormandy
                     -American medley
                             -"America the Beautiful"
             -“Polonaise”
             -President's visit to Canada
                     -Music
             -"This is My Country"
             -"1812 Overture"
                     -Valley Forge Choir
             -"Victory At Sea"
                     -Guadalcanal March
                     -World War II
             -Cliburn
                     -Grieg
                     -“Polonaise”


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      Myths on President’s preference
            -Beer
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                                                             Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

                      -Michelob
                      -Lone Star
                      -Heineken
                             -Denmark

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:56 am.

       Personal instructions
              -Havana cigars
                      -Disguise

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:20 pm.

       Music
               -Ormandy
                     -Zeigler
                     -Walter H. Annenberg


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               -President’s preference
               -Aaron Copland
               -President’s Preference
                      -Franz Liszt preludes
                              -Dorati
                                      -Adolph Hitler
                                              -Beethoven
                                      -Josef Stalin
                                              -Tchaikovsky
                              -Hitler
                                      -Richard Wagner
                              -[President whistles]
                              -Nell Yates
                              -Tricia Nixon Cox
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                            -Hitler
                            -Chou En-Lai
                            -Mao Tse-Tung
                            -Stalin

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      Chinese acrobat show
            -Shanghai
            -Audience reaction
            -William P. Rogers introduction
            -Chinese orchestra

      Washington National Symphony
            -Washington, DC
                   -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                   -President's efforts on behalf
                   -Black children
                            -Sequoia
                            -Circus
                            -Washington Post
            -New York
            -Philadelphia
            -Kansas
            -Disadvantaged children
                   -Blacks
                   -Polish
                   -Italians
                   -Peter J. Brennan
            -President's views on racial discrimination

      Inaugural music
             -Ormandy

      Georgetown cocktail set
            -Phil Watts
            -Peter G. Peterson
            -Kissinger
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                                                  Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

       -Thomas W. Braden
               -Kissinger
                       -Joan Braden
                       -Sans Souci Restaurant
       -Ehrlichman
       -Parties
               -Wives
               -President’s description
               -Drinking
               -Compared to California parties
       -Joseph W. Alsop
       -President’s view
       -Alternatives
               F Street Club [?]
               -Blair House
               -Table House

Washington parties
      -President's feelings
      -Necessity
      -Republicans
      -Old family set
      -Folger family
             -J. Clifford Folger
      -Jan Evans and Dan Evans
             -Republicans
      -Percy Brundage
             -Director of Budget
      -Herbert Hoover
      -Ziegler
             -Kissinger
             -Ehrlichman
             -Press relations
                      -Washington Post
      -Braden party
      -Old family set
             -Perkins McGuire
      -Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Personnel announcement
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                                                        Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

       -Robert Dixon
              -Assistant Attorney General
       -James D. ("Mike") McKevitt
              -Election loss
                      -Assistant Attorney General for Legislation
              -Colorado defeat
                      -Olympics
                      -Denver

Gordon L. Allott
      -Call to Woods
      -Wife
      -Ambassadorship
              -Middle East

Jack Miller
      -Future
      -Laziness
      -Waterloo, Iowa

Desmond J. Barker, Jr.
     -Colson’s office
     -Utah
     -Public relations [PR] firm
     -Abilities

Readjustments to one's former home
      -President's experiences
             -Los Angeles
             -New York
                      -Tom Dewey

Receptionists
       -Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, and Alexander
              -President's former law firm
              -Johns S. Guthrie, Jr.
              -Milton C. Rose
              -John H. Alexander
              -President’s visit
       -Betty McVey
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                                                   Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

                -Personality
         -Lil Lenay [?]
                -Campaign work
         -Dorothy Cox
                -Abilities
         -Shelley Buchanan
                -Personality
         -Dorothy Cox
                -Rebozo
                        -White House secretary
                                -Terry Decker
                        -Irving Trust Company
                                -Interview
                -New York
                        -Crime
                        -Ohio
                        -Washington, DC
                -Cities for employment
                        -Los Angeles
                        -San Francisco
                        -New York
                                -Jews
                                -Blacks
                        -Washington, DC
                                -Protocol

Cities
         -Chicago
                -Edward E. David, Jr.
                -Homosexuality
                        -Washington, DC
                        -New York
                        -San Francisco
                        -Los Angeles
                        -North Hollywood
                        -Pasadena
         -Decker
         -New York
                -Connecticut
                -Adulterers
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         -Unknown woman
               -Mugging
               -New York
               -United Nations [UN]

UN
         -George H. W. Bush
         -US delegation
         -John A. Scali
                 -Staff
         -Unknown woman
         -Paul Stevens
                 -Mary Stevens
         -Charles W. Yost
         -Staff loyalty
                 -Afghanistan

Decker
         -Chicago
         -Los Angeles
         -Long Island
         -Atlanta
         -Abilities
         -Conversation with President
                 -Ambitions

Secretarial positions
       -Importance
       -Decker
       -Proximity to important men
       -Haldeman’s early career
       -President's former law firm
               -Decker
       -Receptionists compared to typists
               -Importance
       -Haldeman’s office
               -Police officer
       -White House reception room
               -Changes
                       -Police office, Secret Service, press
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                                                    Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

              -Décor
       -White House basement entrance
              -Messengers
                     -Blacks
       -Messengers

Blacks in Washington, DC
       -White House staff
               -Respectfulness
       -Race relations
       -Oregon incident
               -Racial violence
       -Unknown Virginia couple
       -Black Power
               -Revolution
       -Civil libertarians
       -Shootings
               -Police

Social secretary appointment
        -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
        -Mrs. Nixon
        -Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
                -Employment
                -USIA
                -Ann Dore
        -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
        -Marge Byers
                -Life
        -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                -Press relations
        -Lewis family, Ablanalp family, Keyes
        -White House third floor
                -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                -Redecoration
                -Solarium

Administration social parties
      -Rogers C. B. Morton
      -Claude S. Brinegar
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                                                                             Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

                 -Peter J. Brennan
                 -Surrogates
                 -Kissinger
                 -Time-Life officials
                         -Kissinger
                         -Ehrlichman
                 -Lewis
                         -Advertisers
                 -David Eisenhower and Julie Nixon Eisenhower


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        Administration social parties
              -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                      -White House
                              -Youth
                      -House
                      -White House parties
                              -Fina Sanchez, Manolo Sanchez
                              -White House staff
                                      -Representation fund
                              -Mess stewards
                                      -Catering
                                      -Security clearances
                      -Mrs. Nixon's schedule
                              -Future Farmers' wives
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                                                          Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

                            -Washington, DC events
                            -National press coverage
                            -Rose Parade
                                   -Football
                    -Julie Nixon Eisenhower

      Social secretary
              -Lucy A. Winchester
                     -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                     -Work style
                     -Rex W. Scouten
                     -Astronaut dinner
                             -Los Angeles

      Bull's responsibilities
              -Winchester
              -Scheduling
                      -David N. Parker
              -Stuart
                      -Mrs. Nixon
                      -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                      -Ziegler

      White House social affairs
            -President's wishes
            -Winchester
                   -Mrs. Nixon
                   -Alexander P. Butterfield
                   -Lawrence M. Higby, Dwight L. Chapin


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             -Mrs. Nixon

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        -Butterfield
-Bull
-Bull’s responsibility
        -Woods’ roll
        -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
        -Ziegler
                -Press relations
        -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Bull
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Woods
-Seating arrangements
-Winchester
-Mrs. Peter Peterson
-Adele Rogers
-Mrs. Nixon
-Dinner for Edward R. G. Heath
-Mrs. Robert Lowell Bacon
-Longworth
-Military protocol staff
-Great Britain
-Germany
        -Willy Brandt
        -Kurt Kiesinger
-Del Webb
-President’s role
        -Mrs. Nixon
        -Handshaking
-Congress members
-Golda Meir
-President’s socializing preferences
        -Political leaders
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Heath
-Handshaking
-Dinners
        -Length
        -Toasting
        -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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        -Cabinet dinner
        -Service
        -Francisco Franco
        -King of Thailand
        -King of Belgium
        -Toasting
        -Great Britain
        -Latin Americans
                -Translation
        -Guests
                -Don Nixon
                -Complaints
                -Rule
                -State Department
        -Heath
                -Camp David
                -Comparable guests
                        -Protocol
                -NSC [National Security Council]
-Kissinger
        - Haig
-Gen. Brent G. Scrowcroft
-Helmut Sonnenfeldt
        -Departure
-Matching numbers of officials
-State dinners
-Evenings at the White House
-State Department officials
-NSC staff
        -Scowcroft
        -Richard Kennedy
        -Kissinger
        -Sonnenfeldt
                -Operational responsibilities
                        -Compared to Assistant Secretary of State
                        -Europe
                        -Protocol
-Stans
        -List of campaign contributors
                -Assistant Secretary of Commerce
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                              -Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
                      -Invitations
                              -State dinners
                              -Evenings at the White House
      -Campaign contributors
              -Amounts
              -Bobst
      -Evenings at the White House
      -State visits
      -Golda Meir
              -Jews
      -State dinners
              -Cost
              -President’s effort
      -Evening at the White House
              -Celebrities
              -Handshaking
      -Church services
              -Handshaking
              -Invitations
                      -Arthur F. Burns
                      -Campaign workers
                      -Earl Warren
                      -Warren E. Burger
                              -Mrs. Burger
      -Dinners
              -Contributors
              -Blair House
              -Details
              -White House
              -Blue Room
              -Bull
              -Chief of Protocol
                      -James J. Reynolds
                              -Robert H. Finch
                              -Jewish heritage
                              -Mrs. Reynolds

Ambassadorship for Mexico
     -James Reynolds
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              -Campaign contribution
              -Finch’s promise
              -Stans’ list
              -Importance
              -Business interests
                      -Confirmation
              -Other Latin American post
       -Luis Echeverria Alvarez
       -Unknown person
       -Gerald R. Ford
       -Campaign contributors
              -Spanish language
              -Stans’ list
              -Reynolds
              -Amounts
       -John Crable
              -Fundraising
              -Wife
              -Ambassadorship
       -Leonard Garment
       -Reynolds
              -Jewish heritage
              -Finch

Chief of Protocol
       -Frank Borman
       -Stans's list
               -John Lewis
                       -Chicago
                       -Johnson wax family
                       -Wife
                       -Campaign contributions
                       -Ambassadorship
                       -Germany
       -Functions
               -Emil Mosbacher, Jr.
               -State visits
               -President's trips abroad
               -People's Republic of China [PRC]
                       -Great Wall
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        -Mrs. Mosbacher
        -PRC
        -Soviet Union
        -Great Britain
        -France
        -Germany
-Mosbacher
        -Role as host
-Functions of wife of Chief of Protocol
        -Winchester
        -Introductions
                -State dinners
-State dinner in Canada
        -Protocol
                -Quality
-Assignments
-Military aides
        -John V. (“Jack”) Brennan
-Winchester
-Protocol officer responsibilities
        -Jo Anne (Horton) Haldeman
-Protocol responsibilities
        -State visits
                -Car
        -Mosbacher
-Borman
-William R. Codus
        -Assistant Chief of Protocol
-Mosbacher
-Types
        -Kissinger, H. R. Haldeman, Mosbacher
-Wiley Buchanan
-Chapin
-Codus
-Advance man
        -William Meeker
-Responsibilities
        -State dinners
                -Assistant’s role
                        -Codus
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                                             Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

-Mosbacher
       -Introductions
       -Escort
                Mrs. Mosbacher
       -Mrs. Nixon
       -Handshaking
       -Soviet Union trip
       -PRC trip
       -Resignation
       -Kissinger
-Protocol experiences in PRC
-Responsibilities
-Winchester
-President's preference
       -Young couple
       -Mosbacher
                -Entertaining
                -Symphony Ball chairman
-Codus
-Brennan
-Marion H. Smoak, wife
       -Martha Beall Mitchell
-Requirements
-Meeker
       -Advance man
       -California
       -New York
       -Family background
                -Alhambra, California
                -Father
                        -1946 campaign
                -University of Southern California [USC]
                -Helene Drown
-Peter Daly
       -November group
       -Wife
-Richard Wallen
       -All-American University of California Los Angeles [UCLA]
       -Wife
-Smoak
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                        -Wife
                        -J. Strom Thurmond
                 -Mosbacher
                 -Wallen
                 -Codus’ wife


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                         -Children
                 -Wallen
                 -Daly
                 -Wallen
                         -Advertising agency
                 -Importance of man and wife
                         -Age
                 -Michael Duval
                         -Advance man
                         -Lawyer
                 -Requirements
                         -Handshake
                         -Masculinity
                                -Football players
                 -Frank Gifford
                         -Age
                 -Social class
                 -Duval
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                                                     Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

                    -Advance man work
                    -General Counsel appointment
                    -California rally
                    -Chase Manhattan Bank
            -Advance men
                    -Menial work
                    -Mosbacher
            -Japanese Prime Minister
                    -Hawaiian Dinner
                    -Advance man
            -Mosbacher
                    -Foreign press relations
                    -Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
                    -Chapin
                    -Performance
            -Reynolds
                    -1952 campaign
                            -Dwight Eisenhower
                            -Rally
                            -Enthusiasm
                    -John E. Nidecker
                    -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
            -Stans' list
            -Lester Ruwe
                    -L. Nicholas Ruwe
                            -Mrs. Nixon
                            -Sexual Orientation


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                  -Campaign contribution
                  -Brownell
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                                                       Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

       -Whitney
       -Ruwe family
              -Nicholas Ruwe
                     -Ambassadorship
       -Codus
              -Ambassadorship
       -Reynolds
       -Nicholas Ruwe
              -Advance man
              -1962 gubernatorial campaign
              -Confirmation
                     -Alcohol
                     -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
                     -James Roy Goodearle
                             -William P. Rogers
              -New York
                     -21 Restaurant
              -Brother
              -USIA
              -Senate Foreign Relations Committee
                     -J. William Fulbright
                             -State Department
                             -Vietnam War

Confirmation of State Department officials
       -Rogers
       -Ambassadors
       -Vietnam War
       -Kissinger
       -Congressional relations
              -Walter J. Hickel[?]
       -Kissinger
              -Fulbright
              -Charles L. Percy

Impoundment of funds
      -Housing subsidies
             -George W. Romney
             -Builders
                    -Percy
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                                                             Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)

                      -Higher taxes
                      -Blacks

       Administration discipline
             -Percy
             -Wiliam B. Saxbe
             -Kissinger
             -Supporters in Senate
                     -John G. Tower
                     -John C. Stennis
                     -Herman E. Talmadge
                     -Bennett Johnston
                             -Louisiana
             -Voting record
                     -Atten J. Ellender
                     -Sam Nunn
                     -David H. Gambrell
                     -Walter Huddleston
                             -Kentucky
                     -John Sherman Cooper

       Re-confirmation of Federal judges
             -Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
             -Mandatory retirement
             -Supreme Court judges

       Age limits for Congress
              -Norris Cotton
              -Percy
              -Cotton


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       Percy
               -Prospects for 1976 Presidential nomination
                      -South

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      Republican Congressional candidates
            -Qualities
            -Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
                    -Clarence K. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
                    -Ford
                    -Resignation
                    -Ed Shurar
                    -Colgate Prentiss
                            -Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
                    -Robert Blair
                    -Robert Payner
                    -Christian A. Herter


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             -Brown
             -Age
             -Oklahoma
                    -Ken Jones
                            -Lyndon Johnson
                    -President’s support
                    -Gene Belcher
             -George A. Murphy
                    -1970 election
                    -Finch
             -Larry Byrd
                    -Utah
             -Margaret Chase Smith
                    -[First name unknown] Lewis
                            -Assistant
                            -Heart attack
                    -Campaigning

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                                                        Conversation No. 837-3 (cont’d)



             -Unknown man
                   -Age

      Congressional relations
            -Age
                    -Roman L. Hruska
                    -Wallace F. Bennett
                    -Mansfield
                    -Hugh Scott
            -William E. Brock, III
                    -Tennessee
            -Pete V. Domenici
            -Henry L. Bellmon
            -Dewey F. Bartlett
            -Scott
            -Walter F. Mondale
            -Herman Talmadge
                    -Eugene Talmadge


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             -Percy
                    -Opportunism
             -Robert A. Taft, Jr.
                    -Intelligence
             -Robert P. Griffin
             -Howard H. Baker, Jr., Brock
             -Baker
                    -Joy Baker
             -Robert J. Dole
             -Jacob K. Javits
                    -Mayor
                             -New York City
                    -Nelson A. Rockefeller
                             -John V. Lindsay
                                    -Drug issue
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-Richard S. Schweiker
-J. Clenn Beall, Jr.
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Schweiker
-Saxbe
-Beall
-Marlow W. Cook
        -Potential
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Tower
        -Intelligence
        -Women
        -Negativity
-Bush, MacGregor
        -Leadership potential
                 -Senate
-Rumsfeld
        -State race
                 -Adlai E. Stevenson, III
        -North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] ambassadorship
                 -Illinois
        -OEP
        -NSC
-John B. Anderson
-Philip M. Crane
-Rumsfeld
-John Anderson
        -Kiki Anderson
        -Political orientation
-Stevenson
-Finch
        -Murray M. Chotiner
        -Polls
        -Republican Party
                 -California
        -Governor’s race
        -Ronald W. Reagan
        -Alan Cranston
                 -Senate race
        -Reagan
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         -Opposition to Finch
         -Nancy Reagan
         -1958 election
 -Edwin Reinecke
 -Lieutenant Governor’s race
 -Colson
 -Chotiner
 -Manager
 -Murphy
         -Reagan
 -John V. Tunnry
 -1962 campaign
 -Tunney
 -Cranston
 -Compared to Rumsfled
         -Appearance
         -Wives
 -Cranston, Wife
 -Political options
         -Senator
         -Governor
         -President
         -Management abilities
 -Rumsfeld
 -Negotiating abilities
 -Favors from Governor
         -Leonard K. Firestone
         -Holmes P. Tuttle
         -Henry Salvatori
         -Taft Schreiber
 -Political options
         -Rumsfeld
 -Cranston
         -Possible death
         -Ellender
                 -Johnston
         -Political future
 -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
         -Chappaquiddick
 -President’s first Senate race
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                     -Sheridan Downey
                     -Helen Gahagen Douglas
       -Rumsfeld
       -1970 election
       -Chotiner
              -Thomas Kleppe
              -Burton [First name unknown]
              -Campaign contributions
                      -Bush
       -Brosk, Baker
       -Rumsfeld
       -President’s House of Representatives campaign

Possible deaths
       -Reagan
       -[Thomas] Hale Boggs
       -Nick Begich
               -Airplane crash
                      -Alaska
       -Use of small airplanes for campaigns
       -Hickel
               -Conversation with Jo Haldeman
               -VIP aircraft
                      -Alaska
               -Lindy Boggs
                      -Election prospect
                      -PRC trip
                      -Louisiana
               -Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
                      -Wife’s death
                              -Children
                      -Health
                      -Public relations [PR]
                      -Kennedy family
                              -Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Senate Campaign Committee Chairman
       -Dominick
             -Accident
             -Leadership
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                     -Age
                           MacGregor
                     -Congress leaders meeting

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       Gordon L. Allott
             -Employment possibilities
                     -Cabinet appointment
                             -Transportation Department
                             -Treasury department
                     -Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
                     -Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
                     -Circuit Court of Appeals
                     -Supreme Court

       Borman
             -Secretary of Defense
             -Chief of Protocol
                    -Advance man
             -Dinners
                    -Nicholas Ruwe
                    -William E. Timmons [?]
                    -Liberal guests
                    -State Department

Rose Mary Woods left at 1:20 pm.

       Second term reorganization
             -Decisions
             -J. Stanley Pottinger
                     -Review
                     -Ehrlichman

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.
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