836–6

Conversation No. 836-6

Date: January 9, 1973
Time: 9:34 am - 10:05 am
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Conversation No. 836-6 (cont’d)

Location: Oval Office

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

Birthday greetings

Press relations
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Herbert G. Klein story

Rose Mary Woods entered at 9:40 am.

Gift
-Cost
-Jade

Dictation machine


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Purchase

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-Transcription machine
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Costs
-White House purchase
-Sony
-Rebozo
-White House Communications Agency [WHCA]
-Location
-Camp David
-Florida
-California
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Conversation No. 836-6 (cont’d)

-Oval Office
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Residence
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Transcription machine
-Rebozo
-Music
-Recording of dinner conversations
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Rose Mary Woods left at 9:42 am.

Klein
-Story
-Ziegler
-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Charles W. Colson
-Director of Communications
-Staffing patterns
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Motives
-Retention
-New York Time
-Abilities
-Ehrlichman
-Counselor
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Roving assignment
-Assistant
-Intelligence
-Possible duties
-Meetings
-Cabinet, National Security Council [NSC]
-Congressional leaders briefings
-Ziegler
-Counselor for Communications
-Time-Life
-Scripps-Howard
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Conversation No. 836-6 (cont’d)

-Possible resignation
-Post-administration employment
-Compared to the President
-Age
-Likeability
-Armstrong

60th birthday interview
-Recording
-Age
-Youth
-Helen Thomas
-Fran Lewine
-Ziegler

Taping system
-Control
-Transcription
-Knowledge of existence
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Haldeman
-Technician
-Stephen B. Bull
-Quality
-Purpose
-Writing history
-Locations
-Oval Office
-Cabinet Room
-EOB
-Camp David
-Note taking
-John B. Connally
-Sony
-Sensitivity of microphone
-Placement
-Notes
-Woods

The President's birthday interview
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Conversation No. 836-6 (cont’d)

-Ziegler
-Thomas
-Notes
-Bull
-Archives

Klein
-Job responsibilities
-Counselor of Communications
-Prestige
-Cabinet rank
-EOB
-Salary

Congressional confirmations
-Cabinet
-1973 Inauguration
-Subcabinet
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
-Watergate
-White House legal operations
-William E. Simon
-Senate Finance Committee
-Watergate
-Krogh
-Knowledge
-Leaks
-Testimony
-Krogh
-Qualifications
-Transportation Department

The President’s birthday interview
-Age and leadership

Press relations
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-Domestic programs
-Meet the Press
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Conversation No. 836-6 (cont’d)

-Press conferences
-Questions
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Vietnam settlement
-Focus

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:42 am.

Telephone call
-John J. McFall

The President talked with McFall between 10:02 am and 10:03 am.

[Conversation No. 836-6A]

[See Conversation No. 35-103]

[End of telephone conversation]

Cultivation of Congress
-McFall
-Press relations

Haldeman left at 10:05 am.