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Start Date: 24-Jan-1973 10:59 AM

End Date: 24-Jan-1973 11:52 AM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

841-007a.mp3

841-007b.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 24, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:59 am to 11:52 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 841-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 841-7

Date: January 24, 1973
Time: Between 10:59 am and 11:52 am
Location: Oval Office

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

       Haldeman's conversation with Wyatt Thomas (“Tom”) Johnson, Jr.
            -Arrangements for Lyndon B. Johnson's funeral
                  -Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:59 am.

       Alexander P. Butterfield

Bull left at an unknown time before 11:52 am.

       Arrangements for Lyndon B. Johnson funeral
            -Congressional delegation
            -Airplane to Texas
            -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

       Haldeman's conversation with Mrs. Johnson
            -Vietnam settlement announcement
            -Lyndon B. Johnson
            -Rebozo

       Haldeman's conversation with Tom Johnson
            -National Cathedral
                  -Christian church
                  -Dwight David Eisenhower

       Budget considerations
            -John D. Ehrlichman

       Press relations
             -Charles W. Colson
             -Kenneth W. Clawson
             -William S. White
                                        -7-

           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                   Conversation No. 841-7 (cont’d)

     -Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
     -Joseph W. Alsop
           -Bombing in Vietnam

Le Duc Tho
     -Press conference in Paris

The President's budget speech
     -Schedule
     -Ronald L. Ziegler
     -Networks

Henry A. Kissinger

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
     -Patrick J. Buchanan
     -Colson
     -Kissinger
           -Vietnam

Press relations
      -Helen A. Thomas
      -Support for Vietnam settlement
      -Lyndon B. Johnson
             -Frank McGee
             -Harris Poll

The President's speech on Vietnam settlement
     -Public reaction
     -Congressmen
           -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
           -William J. Fulbright
           -Clark M. Clifford
     -World Wars I and II
     -Korean War
     -Public reaction
           -Sports events
           -Concerts
     -Jackson
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             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                     Conversation No. 841-7 (cont’d)

The President's budget speech

Ehrlichman
      -Executive Committee of Republican Governors
      -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.

Television
     -Franklin D. Roosevelt
     -Writing press

Vietnam settlement
     -Los Angeles Times
     -Gerald R. Ford's statement
     -Bombing
     -Congress
           -George S. McGovern's speech
           -Barry M. Goldwater
     -John B. Connally

Haiti
        -Kidnapping of American diplomat
              -Clinton E. Knox
              -Political prisoners
              -Ransom
        -William P. Rogers
        -Ransom

Washington society
    -Richard A. Moore
    -The press
    -19th Century England
          -Landed aristocracy
          -Book about Benjamin Disraeli
    -1972 election

The President's detractors
     -The President's conversation with Colson
           -Herbert G. Klein
           -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
                                                        -9-

                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                              Tape Subject Log
                                               (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                                             Conversation No. 841-7 (cont’d)

        Letter to the President from Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
              -Article by Saul Pett

        Buchanan
             -C. Gregg Petersmeyer

        Inaugural
             -Dan Rather
                  -Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
                  -The President's sense of humor
                  -Coverage of the President's departure from Key Biscayne
                  -Ralph D. Albertazzie
                  -Rose Mary Woods
                  -Rebozo

        Pictures
              -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins


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        William F. (“Billy”) Graham
              -Photographs
                    -Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                          -Warren E. Burger

        Mamie G. D. Eisenhower
                                            -10-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                                 Conversation No. 841-7 (cont’d)

            -Dwight D. Eisenhower

       Lyndon B. Johnson
            -Tom Johnson

       Senate Committee testimony
            -Hugh W. Sloan, Jr.
            -Jeb S. Magruder
            -Robert C. Odle, Jr.
                  -Role at Committee to Re-elect the President
            -Maurice H. Stans
                  -$199,000 payment to G. Gordon Liddy
                        -Intelligence operations

       McGovern

       The President's schedule

Haldeman left at 11:52 am.