Conversation: 895-014
Prev: 895-013 Next: 895-015Start Date: 13-Apr-1973 11:22 AM
End Date: 13-Apr-1973 11:40 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On April 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:22 am and 11:40 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 895-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 895-14
Date: April 13, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:22 am and 11:40 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and an unknown man.
President’s schedule
-Meeting with executives of Frontiers of Science Foundation of Oklahoma, Inc.
-Press photograph
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
Conversation No. 895-14 (cont’d)
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:40 am.
Rose Garden
-Use for photographs
-Oval Office photographs
President’s activities
-Staff awareness
-Press coverage
-Public impression
-Isolation, warmth of President
-Compared with Gen. Charles A. J. M. de Gaulle
-Compassion
-Press coverage
-Public appearances
-Harris poll on confidence
-Press coverage of administration
-Press skills of administration members
-Children
-Interaction in front of press
-Ronald L. Ziegler
Federal Reserve system
-Vacancy of Vice Chairman
-Arthur F. Burns
-Robert C. Holland
-George W. Mitchell
-Democratic Party
-Arthur F. Burns and George P. Shultz
-John E. Sheehan
-John B. Connally’s view
-Holland and Mitchell
Watergate
-Haldeman’s phone call from Spiro T. Agnew
-Statement of Watergate
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
Conversation No. 895-14 (cont’d)
-White House handling of Watergate
-Possible press conference
-Loyalty
-Possible press conference
-John D. Ehrlichman, Ziegler
-Barry M. Goldwater’s statement in Christian Science Monitor
-Ann L. Armstrong’s statement in New York Times
-Source of purported statement on Watergate
-Marvin L. Esch’s statement, April 12, 1973
-Press
-Robert Walters of Washington Star
-Response to article
-McCarthyism
Public relations [PR]
-W. Kenneth Riland
-Work with administration
Osteopathy skills
-Indictment in tax case
-Stubbornness
Congressional relations
-President’s conversation with William E. Timmons, April 13, 1973
-Letters, phone call
-Number of visits with President
-President’s schedule
Watergate
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Testimony
-Coaching
-$350,000
-Conversation with Earl J. Silbert
-Forthcoming Grand Jury appearance
-Seymour Glanzer’s technique
President’s forthcoming meeting with Peter J. Brennan
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. April-2011)
Conversation No. 895-14 (cont’d)
-Talking points
-Labor Department
-[First name unknown] Jones
-Shultz
Opposition to Brennan
-Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS]
-Julius Shishkin
-Charles W. Colson’s opinion
-Jones’s evaluation
-Colson’s meeting with Brennan
-Jew
Haldeman left at 11:40 am.