399–14

Conversation No. 399-14

Date: January 22, 1973
Time: Between 11:01 am and 1:20 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

The President's second term

1973 Inauguration
-Church service
-Relatives
-Inaugural address
-White House staff follow-up

Grand Jury
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Back taxes

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:03 am.

Washington Post story
-Source
-White House rebuttal
-United Press International [UPI]
-Press briefing
-The President’s instructions

Press relations
-Henry A. Kissinger
 -15-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 399-14 (cont’d)

-Church service
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President's telephone conversations
-Church service
-Kissinger
-Vietnam settlement
-Signing
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Herbert G. Klein
-Charles W. Colson
-Washington Post
-Kenneth W. Clawson

Ziegler left at 11:11 am.

Church service
-Choir
-Washington Post

1973 Inauguration
-Inaugural ball
-Television [TV] coverage
-Public Broadcasting System [PBS]
-The President's arrival
-Spiro T. Agnew

Press relations
-The President’s image
-Reaction
-Youth Ball
-New York
-Ziegler
-Vietnam War
-Response
-Washington Post
-Confirmation
-First term compared to second term
-Second term goals
-Welfare
-William E. Brock, III
 -16-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 399-14 (cont’d)

-Seating arrangements
-The President’s order
-Reception [?]
-Themla C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Stephen B. Bull [?]

Congressional relations

Church service [?]

White House entertainment
-Impresario
-Leonard Garment
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Selection
-George Murphy
-1972 campaign
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Celebrities
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
-Inaugural event
-A cocktail party
-Sinatra
-Davis
-Sinatra
-Ball [?]
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-TV
-Check by the President
-Washington parties [?]
-Vietnam settlement [?]
-Press relations
-News summaries
-The President’s image
-TV

1973 Inauguration
-Parade
-Ball
 -17-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 399-14 (cont’d)

-Press Coverage
-Parade incident
-The President’s car
-Protestor
-Legal charges
-Crowd size [?]
-Security
-TV

Press relations
-Kissinger [?]
-White House staff
-Editorial comment
-Newspapers
-Vietnam settlement
-Haig trip [?]
-Possible book by The President
-Colson
-Staff writers

Celebrities
-Blacks

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Funeral
-Washington National Cathedral
-Claudia A. (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

The President’s speeches
-Staff work
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Rose Mary Woods
-Price
-Proofing
-Typist
-Ziegler
-Manolo Sanchez
-Adjustments

Church service
 -18-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 399-14 (cont’d)

-Choirs
-Edward V. Hill [?]
-Colson
-District of Columbia
-Rhode Island
-Delaware
-Virginia
-Maryland

Collaboration with [first name unknown] Lott
-Collection of speeches
-Publicity
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis

1973 Inauguration
-Acknowledgement for participants
-Special plan [?]
-Follow-up
-Unknown woman
-Floral seal
-Remaining money
-Use
-Inaugural address

The President's schedule
-Eisaku Sato
-Bipartisan Congressional leaders meeting
-Republican leaders meeting
-Sato
-Dinner
-Donald McI. Kendall

Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 12:10 pm and 12:12 pm.

[Conversation No. 399-14A]

[See Conversation No. 36-40]

[End of telephone conversation]
 -19-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 399-14 (cont’d)

1973 Inauguration
-Number of invitations
-Remaining money
-Use

The President's schedule
-Sato
-Next week
-Dinner
-Roger Williams
-Camp David
-Cabinet members

The President’s statements
-Buchanan

The President’s schedule
-Congressional leaders meeting
-The President’s speech
-Contents
-World War II
-History
-Vietnam settlement

Vietnam settlement
-Article
-Circulation
-Colson’s office
-South Vietnam
-Communist rule
-“Peace with honor”

\"Peace with honor\"
-The President's meeting with Raymond K. Price
-Edward M (“Ted”) Kennedy, Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-George McGovern
-Policy on Vietnam
-Presidential adversaries
-Congressional relations
-Presidential gesture
 -20-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 399-14 (cont’d)

-1972 election
-Lyndon Johnson
-Public support for the President
-Silent majority
-Democrats
-Republicans
-Congressional relations
-Kissinger [?]
-History of war
-John D. Ehrlichman [?]
-Ziegler [?]
-McGovern [?]
-Announcement
-TV
-Democrats
-Republicans
-Buchanan
-The President’s speeches
-Prisoners Of War [POWs] return
-H. Ross Perot
-The President’s role
-Guam, Hawaii
-POW families
-Lyndon Johnson
-Haig [?]
-Kissinger [?]
-1973 Inauguration [?]
-Fundraising
-Cutbacks

Vietnam settlement
-Congressional relations
-Kissinger
-The President’s speech
-Audience
-Buchanan
-Lyndon Johnson
-Congress
-American people, servicemen
-Price
 -21-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 399-14 (cont’d)

-Inaugural address
-Patriotism
-Education
-TV
-Press relations
-Morning newspaper
-The President’s speech
-National audience
-Price

Congressional relations
-Buchanan

The President’s schedule
-Sato
-Heath
-Sato
-Dinner
-Meeting with the President
-George H.W. Bush
-Congressional relations
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders

Vietnam settlement
-The President’s speech
-Nixon doctrine
-Theme of responsibility
-Cambodia
-Bombing

Unknown man
-Wife

Colson
-Buchanan

John A. Scali

Bipartisan Congressional leaders meeting [?]
 -22-

NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 399-14 (cont’d)

-The President’s schedule
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Senate spokesman
-Klein [?]
-Press relations
-Dick Olsen [?]
-Attendance
-Chairmen

Haldeman left at 1:20 pm.