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Start Date: 2-Feb-1973 11:50 AM

End Date: 2-Feb-1973 12:22 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

847-013.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:50 am to 12:22 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 847-013 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 847-13

Date: February 2, 1973
Time: 11:50 am - 12:22 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

       Swearing-in ceremonies
             -Photographs
             -Families witness
                     -Pride
                     -Chief Justice [Warren E. Burger]
                     -The President
             -Personal sacrifice
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           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. Sep.-09)
                                                      Conversation No. 847-13 (cont’d)




The President’s schedule
       -Arkansas
       -Houston, Texas
       -Arkansas
              -Speech by the President at a college
                       -State of the Union
                               -Economics
              -Wilbur D. Mills
       -Mail
       -Editors
       -Michigan
       -Prisoners of War [POWs]
              -Families
              -Medal of Freedom
       -Arkansas
              -Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas
                       -Wilbur Mills School
              -Little Rock
              -Timing
       -Congressional adjournment
       -Presidential statement

Lyndon B. Johnson’s employee
      -Staffing
      -Letter writer
      -Johnson’s style

President’s schedule
       -Four year master schedule
       -Pam Howells [?]
       -Entertainers
               -Master list
               -Blacks
               -Leontyne Price
               -Master list
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            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. Sep.-09)
                                                       Conversation No. 847-13 (cont’d)



       -Celebrities
              -Invitees
              -Entertainers
                      -The President’s supporters

Protocol
       -Staffing
       -Marion H. Smoak
               -Wife
               -Edward R. G. Heath
       -Hussein ibn Talal’s [Hussein, King of Jordan] visit
               -Presentation
       -Role of chief of Protocol
               -Smoak
               -Frank Borman [?]
       -Military aids
               -Receiving lines
                      -Advance man
       -Procedures
               -Smoak

President’s schedule
       -Mills
               -George P. Shultz
               -College
                       -Informal dedication of room
               -John L. McClellan
               -J. William Fulbright
       -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s return
               -Philippines
               -San Clemente
               -Walter H. Annenberg
                       -Great Britain
               -Henry A. Kissinger
               -Florida
               -Susan Agnew
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                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Sep.-09)
                                                       Conversation No. 847-13 (cont’d)



                    -Palm Springs

      Staffing and appointments
              -Secret Service
                      -William L. Duncan


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Privacy]
[Duration: 8 s]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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                           -Investigative role
                    -Richard E. Keiser
                           -Assistant Directorship
                           -Promotion
                    -Taylor


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Statute]
[Duration: 3 s]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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                    -Keiser
                           -Foreign protection
                    -Taylor
                           -John D. Ehrlichman
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Sep.-09)
                                                           Conversation No. 847-13 (cont’d)



                             -Education
                             -Assistant Directorship
              -Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
                     -United Nations [UN] delegation
                     -Press story
                     -John B. Connally
                     -Telephone call from the President
              -Maurice H. Stans
                     -W. Clement Stone
                             -Ambassadorship
                             -London
                     -Annenberg
                     -Leonard K. Firestone
                             -Wife
              -William P. Rogers
                     -Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT]
                     -Telephone call to Haldeman
              -Cabinet

       Kissinger

       President’s schedule
              -Invitations
                      -Camp David
                      -Edward R. G. Heath
                             -Chequens
                      -Gen. Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle
              -Emperor of Japan
                      -Possible meeting

       State dinners
               -Cost

Haldeman left at an unknown time after 12:22 pm.
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. Sep.-09)