Secret White House Tapes

895–14

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895–14
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • UNKNOWN
April 13, 1973
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.
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