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Start Date: 6-Feb-1973 4:49 PM

End Date: 6-Feb-1973 5:11 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)[Unknown person(s)]Woods, Rose MaryHaldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

851-003.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 6, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, unknown person(s), Rose Mary Woods, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:49 pm and 5:11 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 851-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 851-3

Date: February 6, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:49 pm and 5:11 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

       President's schedule
              -Departure

Unknown person left at 4:59 pm.

Rose Mary Woods entered at 4:59 pm.
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Mar.-09)
                                                             Conversation No. 851-3 (cont’d)




       Note to Jane Wyman
              -So Big

Woods left at 5:00 pm.

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 5:00 pm.

       White House guest lists
             -Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
             -State Chairmen
             -Woods
             -Frederick V. Malek
             -Maurice H. Stans
                     -Dinner
             -Woods
                     -Memoranda
                     -Invitations
             -Malek, Charles W. Colson, Harry S. Dent
             -Invitations
                     -Quotas
             -Finance committee
                     -Invitations
                     -Stans
                     -State dinner
                     -Compared to political guests
                             -Social class
                             -State committees
                                     -Vermont, Maine, Delaware
                             -Entertainment

       Appointees
             -Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
             -Frank C. Carlucci
                     -Hold
             -Patricia R. Hitt
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Mar.-09)
                                                               Conversation No. 851-3 (cont’d)



                     -New position
                            -President’s conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
                     -Woods
                     -Robert J. Hitt
                            -Interior Department
                     -Labor Department

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:03 pm.

       President’s schedule
              -Meeting with George P. Shultz and Arthur F. Burns
              -State dinner
                      -[Hussein, King of Jordan] Hussein ibn Talal

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:11 pm.

       1973 Inauguration
              -Vincent Persichetti
                     -Composer
                     -Exclusion of work
                              -President’s knowledge
                                     -Press coverage
                              -Inaugural Committee
                              -Haldeman’s conversation with Eugene Ormandy
              -Recitation of a passage by the head of the Screen Actors Guild
                     -Declaration of Independence
                              -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha
                              -Ormandy
              -Persichetti piece
                     -Commission for inaugural concert
                     -Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address


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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. 851-3 (cont’d)




      [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II’s discharge
            -Report from Haldeman
            -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
            -Cmdr. Craig S. Campbell
            -July opportunity
                    -March
            -Early release
                    -Record
                    -Routine early phase out

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      Speeches
            -Radio talk
                   -Haldeman's conversation with Ehrlichman
                          -Preparation
                   -Scheduling
                   -Lead time
                   -Handling of issue
                   -Quality of speech
            -Republican congressional leaders’ meeting
                   -Roy L. Ash
                   -Phrases
                   -Quality
                          -Cabinet
                          -William E. Timmons
                          -Ehrlichman
                   -Number of lines
                          -Meeting before scheduled meeting
                          -Questions
                   -Republican Congressional leaders’ meeting
                          -Ash
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. Mar.-09)
                                                                 Conversation No. 851-3 (cont’d)



                             -Talking papers

Haldeman left at 5:11 pm.