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Start Date: 31-Jan-1973 2:50 PM

End Date: 31-Jan-1973 3:10 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

845-004.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 31, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:50 pm to 3:10 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 845-004 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 845-4

Date: January 31, 1973
Time: Between 2:50 pm and 3:10 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

       Tape machine
            -Location
            -Tape

       John B. Connally
            -Meeting with Haldeman
            -John D. Ehrlichman
                  -Algeria
                        -Export-Import Bank


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift.]
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                          Conversation No. 845-4 (cont’d)


      Politics
             -Prospect for Connally’s change of parties
                   -Charles W. Colson
             -William D. Ruckelshaus
                   -Press story
                   -Nicholas P. Thimmesch
                         -Peter Lisagor
                         -Jules Witcover
             -Spiro T. Agnew
             -Connally
             -Thimmesch
                   -John F. Osborne

            -Agnew
                 Kevin P. Phillips’s analysis
                 -Prospects for 1976 Presidential race

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift.]
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      Press relations
            -Press conference
                   -Location
                   -Ronald L. Ziegler
                   -Dan Rather
                   -Television [TV] coverage

            -Amnesty
                -Vietnam settlement
                -Mail analysis
                -Opposition

            -The President’s response
                  -Double standard
            -Press conferences
                  -Frequency

            -Helen Thomas
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Mar.-09)

                                                            Conversation No. 845-4 (cont’d)

                  -Henry A. Kissinger’s trip
                       -Nguyen Van Thieu
                  -TV coverage
                  -Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Harry S Truman

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:50 pm.

       The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:10 pm.

       Press conference
             -Clark R. Mollenoff
             -Questions
                   -Sarah McLendon
                   -Vietnam questions
                   -Tax reform
             -Europe
                   -Great Britain
                         -Edward R.G. Heath’s visit
             -TV coverage
             -New York Times

       Press relations
             -Kissinger
                    -Ziegler
                    -Barbara Walters
                    -Ziegler
                          -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
                                -Marvin Kalb
                    -Dinner with Walters
                          -Commitment
                          -Kalb

Haldeman left at 3:10 pm.
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Mar.-09)