652–3

Conversation No. 652-3

Date: January 20, 1972
Time: 1:22 pm - unknown before 1:33 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President’s State of the Union Address, January 20, 1972
-Woods’s view
-Woods’s presence

Instruction

State of the Union Address
-Woods’s view
-Length
-Compared with addresses by Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and
Lyndon B. Johnson
-The President’s previous addresses
-Woods’s view

Equal Rights Amendment [ERA]
-Note to John D. Ehrlichman
-Administration position
-Publicity
-Edward M. Kennedy’s position
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s report
-Administration position
-Barbara H. Franklin
-Letter
-Publicity
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Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 652-3 (cont.)


-Ehrlichman
-Women in Congress

State of the Union Address
-Woods’s observations
-Edward Kennedy, Edmund S. Muskie, Hubert H. Humphrey and Harold E.
Hughes
-Senate
-Members

Margaret Chase Smith

An unknown man [Alexander P. Butterfield?] entered at an unknown time after 1:22 pm.

-Administrative Assistant
-Name [William C. Lewis]

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:29 pm.

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:22 pm and
1:29 pm.]

[Conversation No. 652-3A]

[See Conversation No. 19-32]

[End of telephone conversation]

Lewis
-Name
-Health
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Name

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 1:22 pm and
1:29 pm.]

[Conversation No. 652-3B]

[See Conversation No. 19-33]
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[End of telephone conversation]


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[The White House operator talked with the President at 1:29 pm.]

[Conversation No. 652-3C]

[See Conversation No. 19-34]

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State of the Union Address
-The President’s efforts
-Compared with previous addresses
-Delivery
-Woods’s view
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 652-3 (cont.)


-Length
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s view
-Cuts
-Delivery
-Price’s view
-Edward Kennedy’s reaction
-Clark MacGregor’s comment
-Previous speech
-John Kennedy quotation
-Woods’s observance of Edward Kennedy
-John Kennedy quotation
-The President’s handling
-US commitments
-Critique
-Bolivia
-US foreign policy

John Kennedy
-Accomplishments
-Death
-Compared to Johnson

Johnson
-Accomplishments
-Poverty program
-John Kennedy
-Blacks
-Johnson’s support
-Racism
-Compared with the President
-Liberalism
-Compared with John Kennedy
-The Great Society

State of the Union Address
-Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally’s presence
-Clothes
-Cabinet wives
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-John B. Connally
-The President’s glance during tax section delivery
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 652-3 (cont.)


-Nellie Connally
-Cabinet wives
-Atmosphere
-Supreme Court
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon, Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Applause

Woods left at an unknown time before 1:33 pm.