837–1

Conversation No. 837-1

Date: January 8, 1973
Time: Unknown between 5:49 pm and 6:04 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. This recording began
while the conversation was in progress.

President's schedule
-Maurice J. Williams
-Kenneth K. Cole, Jr.
-Col. Richard T. Kennedy
-Williams
-Press statement
-Nicaraguan earthquake relief

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:09 pm.

President's birthday


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-Time of birth
-President’s mother
-Family Bible
-Birth certificate
-Place of birth
-Orange County
-Yorba Linda

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-Haldeman
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Conversation No. 837-1 (cont’d)

-Haldeman children
-Record keeping

George D. Webster nomination
-Charles W. Colson
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] report
-Response
-Webster’ financial practices
-Law firm
-Delayed tax payments


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-Webster’s financial practices
-Legality
-Colson
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Other candidates
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Replacement
-Chicago

Anna C. Chennault
-“Dragon Lady”
-John N. Mitchell
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Bui Diem
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Direct contact
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

1968 plane bugging
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Conversation No. 837-1 (cont’d)

-Cartha D. DeLoach
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Mitchell
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-George E. Christian
-Conversation with Lyndon B. Johnson
-John B. Connally
-Dwayne O. Andreas
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-Mitchell
-Andreas
-Humphrey
-Johnson

Webster’s nomination
-Colson
-George Meany
-Opposition
-Right-to-work
-IRS Commissioner
-Union tax exemptions
-Webster
-Friendship
-Loyalty compared to intelligence

President's schedule
-Roy L. Ash

Second term reorganization
-George P. Shultz
-Ash
-Personality
-Connally
-Press relations
-Shultz
-Congressional relations
-Integrity
-Tenacity
-Diplomacy
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Conversation No. 837-1 (cont’d)

-Anne L. Armstrong
-Bicentennial Commission
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Francis M. (“Frank”) Sinatra

1973 Inauguration
-American music concert
-Sinatra
-Master of Ceremonies
-Italian cardinal
-Church service
-Rose Mary Woods
-Attendees
-Service secretaries
-Assistant Secretaries
-Number
-Republican Party people
-Administration personnel
-Clark MacGregor
-Cabinet members
-Under Secretaries
-Agency heads
-Participation by relatives
-Limits
-President's brothers
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's brothers
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Agnew’s family

Second term reorganization
-Webster
-Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
-Candidates
-L Patrick (“Pat”) Gray
-Ambassadorial post
-Bonn, Germany
-FBI
-Mitchell
-Federal attorney
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Conversation No. 837-1 (cont’d)

-William D. Ruckelshaus
-Ambassadorial post
-Bonn, Germany

Haldeman left at 6:09 pm.