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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Rose Mary Woods
  • Marjorie P. Acker
January 12, 1973
Conversation No. 395-26/396-1

Date: January 12, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:30 am and 11:25 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Rose Mary Woods, and Marjorie P. Acker.
The recording began while the conversation was in progress. This is a continuation of
Conversation No. 395-26.

[An unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded while the tape was changed.]

Dictation machine
-Operation
-Portability
-Complexity
-Compared to other machines
-Moscow


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1973 Inauguration
President’s attire

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Dictation machine
-President's use
-Memoranda for the file
-Lincoln sitting room
-Private memoranda
-Oval Office
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Compared with other machines
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan.-09)

Conversation No. 395-26/396-1 (cont’d)

-Portability
-President's use
-Lincoln sitting room
-Oval Office
-EOB office
-Key Biscayne
-San Clemente, California
-Operation
-Testing
-Florida


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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

1973 Inauguration
-President’s attire
-Ties
-Delivery
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Coat
-Zosimo T. Monson
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Article in Women’s Wear Daily
-Tricia Nixon Cox’s wedding
-Style
-Inaugural manual
-Dwight D. Eisenhower’s inauguration
-Ties
-Selection
-Mrs. Nixon
-Call to [First name unknown] Calkridge [?]
-H.E. Harris [?]
-Mrs. Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-President’s call to Muriel (“Honey”) Berlin
-Patricia R. Mosbacher
-Dinner for Elliot L. Richardson [?]
-Designs
-Fiber content
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan.-09)

Conversation No. 395-26/396-1 (cont’d)

Cartoon
-James Berryman
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Haldeman’s sister
-Haldeman’s mother
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Berryman [?]

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President's schedule
-Florida
-Mrs. Nixon

1973 Inauguration
-Congress
-Honorary chairman
-Inaugural committee
-Recommendation
-Republican
-Ceremony
-Invitations
-White House Staff
-Balls
-Protocol

Woods and Acker left at 11:15 am.

Second term reorganization
-John Mulcahy
-Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD]
-Assistant Secretary
-Campaign donors
-Inaugural committee
-1973 Inauguration
-Events
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan.-09)

Conversation No. 395-26/396-1 (cont’d)

-Maurice H. Stans
-Charles W. Colson
-Press relations
-John Scali
-Compared to Ziegler
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Elliot L. Richardson
-George W. Romney, John A. Volpe
-Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Herbert G. Klein
-John B. Connally
-John N. Mitchell
-George H.W. Bush

Vietnam settlement
-Announcement
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Call to Colson
-Kissinger’s trip to Hanoi
-Plans
-Size of Vietnam [?]
-Compared to US
-Compared to California and Texas

Haldeman left at 11:25 am.
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