Conversation: 867-008
Prev: 867-007 Next: 867-009Start Date: 2-Mar-1973 11:51 AM
End Date: 2-Mar-1973 12:16 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Woods, Rose Mary; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On March 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, Rose Mary Woods, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:51 am and 12:16 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 867-008 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 867-8
Date: March 2, 1973
Unknown between 11:51 am and 12:16 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Press conference
-Questions
-Subjects
-Answers
-Nguyen Van Thieu meeting
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Conversation No. 867-8 (cont’d)
-Devaluation
-United Press International [?]
-Aid to North Vietnam
-Hanoi
-Defense budget
-Tone
Rose Mary Woods entered at 11:52 am.
Press relations
-Woods’s friends
-List
Public relations
-J. Willard (“Bill”) Marriott [?]
-Gift
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Gifts for supporters
-List
-Costs
-Financial contributors, political supporters
-White House staff
-Recipients
-Financial contributors
-High-level political supporters
-Friends
-Campaign workers
-John N. Mitchell, Clark MacGregor
-Maurice H. Stans
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-F. Donald Nixon, Edward C. Nixon
-Ryan family
-Appreciation
-Immediate family
-Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox, Julia Nixon Eisenhower and
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Conversation No. 867-8 (cont’d)
[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Music box
-Edward Nixon, F. Donald Nixon
-Ryan family
-List
-President’s instruction to consult
-Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein
-Compared to dinner invitations
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White House social affairs
-White House dinner for Golda Meir
-President’s remarks to Meir
-Invitations
-Number
-Friends
-Jewelry
-Types
-Amount
-Taste of invitees
Jews
-Gentiles
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-John B. Connally
-Max M. Fisher, Taft Schreiber
-Invitees
-Van Cliburn
-Mother’s invitation to dinner
-Pat McConnell [?]
-Performance
-Compared to performance at inaugural event
-Chou En-lai
-Invitation
-Henry A. Kissinger
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Conversation No. 867-8 (cont’d)
-Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra
-Previous performance at inaugural event
Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
-Maxine Cheshire
-Edward B. Williams
-Reaction to lawsuit
-Washington Post
-Performance at state dinner for Italian Prime Minister [Guilio Andreotti]
-Cheshire
-Compared to Drew Pearson
-Salbury Pot [?]
-Fight with Joseph McCarthy
Press conference
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
-Operation
-Roy Edwards's party
-Ritz Carlton
-Leslie Stahl
-Question about John W. Dean, III
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
Church services
-Invitations
-Congress
-Regrets
-William E. Timmons
-Reasons
-Catholic
-White House tours
-Upstairs
-Evenings at the White House
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Freshmen Congressmen
Cliburn
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Conversation No. 867-8 (cont’d)
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
Gifts
-Special gifts
-1968 convention
-Number left
-Possible recipients
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
[Privacy]
[Duration: 20s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 6
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White House staff
-President's conversation with the white house barber
-Call to wife
-Letter
George T. Bell
-President's call
-Nurse
-Illness
-Retirement
William Allen White
-Death
-Cancer
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Conversation No. 867-8 (cont’d)
Gifts
-Foreign diplomats
-Plates
-Stamp
-Ash trays
-Music boxes
-Recipients
-Inscription
-Golda Meir
Golda Meir
-Blair House
-Mrs. Cole
-Eisenhower administration
-Mary Jane [Last name unknown]
-Graciousness
Marriott gift item
-Presidential library
-Executive Office Building [EOB] office
Inscription
-Mary T. Brooks
-Peace
Paul Findley
-Support for President
Woods left 12:11 pm.
Press conference
-Questions
-Southeast Asia
-Laos, Cambodia
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Sudan
-John B. Connally
-Rent control
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Conversation No. 867-8 (cont’d)
-Southeast Asia cease-fire
-Aid to North Vietnam
-Source of funding
-Amnesty
-United Press International [UPI] poll
-Congress
-Blacks
Press conference
-Watergate
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Importance of story
-Senate hearings
-President's comments
-Cooperation with Ervin Committee
-Conditions
-Hearings
-Focus
-Evenhandedness
-Hearsay evidence
-Dean's investigation
-Dean's testimony
-Mitchell
-Mollenhoff's question
-Charges
An unknown man entered at an unknown time after 12:11 pm.
American Heart Association [AHA] representatives
-Meeting with President
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Dr. Paul Yu
The unknown man and Ziegler left at an unknown time before 12:16 pm.
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