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Start Date: 11-Jan-1973 9:46 AM

End Date: 11-Jan-1973 10:03 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

838-015.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 11, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and William E. Timmons met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:46 am to 10:03 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 838-015 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 838-15

Date: January 11, 1973
Time: Between 9:46 and 10:03 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with William E. Timmons at 9:46 am.

       Lists of Congressmen
               -Republicans
               -Democrats
                      -F. Edward Hebert
               -Cambodia
               -Reception
                      -Veto overide
               -Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.
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                              Tape Subject Log
                                (rev. Feb.-09)

                                                      Conversation No. 838-15 (cont’d)

Bipartisan leadership meeting
        -John E. Moss
        -Sen. Robert C. Byrd
        -Ranking members
               -Foreign Relations, Defense and
               -Appropriations Committees
               -J. Strom Thurmond
               -John G. Tower
               -Robert A. Taft, Jr.
               -Charles H. Percy
               -William W. Scranton
               -Waggonner
               -John J. McFall
               -Moss
               -Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield

Richard M. Helms
       -W. Stuart Symington
       -People's Republic of China [PRC] nuclear capability

Mansfield

Carl B. Albert

Mansfield
      -Meeting of Democrats
      -Russell B. Long
      -Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson
      -Vietnam
      -Foreign Relations Committee

Vietnam negotiations
      -Need for confidentiality

Mansfield

Watergate
      -Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
             -Courts
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            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. Feb.-09)

                                                     Conversation No. 838-15 (cont’d)


Lists of Congressmen
        -Congressional relations
        -Recognition of support

Democrat leadership
     -Mansfield
     -J. William Fulbright
     -Symington
     -Jackson

Future events
       -Master list for Rose Mary Woods
              -State dinners

Worship services

J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.

Briefings for new people
       -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
       -Henry A. Kissinger
       -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
               -Qualities
       -Compared to Kissinger
       -Compared to William P. Rogers
               -Content
               -Johnston
               -Nixon Doctrine
               -PRC
               -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
               -Europe
               -National security

Sam Nunn
      -Kennedy Resolution
      -Voting record
      -Johnston
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Feb.-09)

                                                         Conversation No. 838-15 (cont’d)

       John Sherman Cooper

       David H. Gambrell
             -Richard B. Russell

       Ideological considerations
              -Allen J. Ellender
              -Walter Huddleston
              -Oklahoma
              -New Mexico
                      -Clinton P. Anderson
                      -Jackson
              -Virginia
                      -William Lloyd Scott
                      -William B. Spong, Jr.
              -Jesse A. Helms
              -Margaret Chase Smith
                      -Antiballistic missiles [ABM]
              -Gordon L. Allott
              -Jack R. Miller
              -William B. Saxbe
              -Edward W. Brooke
              -Cooper
              -Percy
              -Haig
              -Mail counts
                      -Congressional
                      -Bombing
              -Cartoon
                      -Congress
              -Mail counts
                      -Hugh Scott
              -Peace groups

Timmons left at 10:03 am.
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Feb.-09)