398–7

Conversation No. 398-7

Date: January 19, 1973
Time: 4:40 pm - 5:23 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

President's dictating machine
-Operation

President's Inaugural speech

President's second term
-Record
-Ideas
-1972 election
-Effort

Charles G. (\"Bebe\") Rebozo’s schedule
-Call from the President
-Meeting with the President

Second term reorganization
-William P. Rogers
-Tenure as Secretary of State
-Retirement from government service
-Resistance
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Transcribing President’s dictations
-Staff
-Trustworthiness
-Rose Mary Woods
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Woods
-Loyalty
-Speed
-Haldeman’s secretary
-Copies

Spiro T. Agnew
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Responsibilities
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Possible travels
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] negotiations
-Soviet Union
-Possible results
-Kissinger

Watergate
-Charles W. Colson
-Spokesman role
-Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Executive privilege defense
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Republicans
-John F. Kennedy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Staff responsibility
-Support in Congress
-Applicability
-Presidential advisors
-Kissinger's staff
-Relationship with the President
-Paper drafting
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-Conversation with staff
-Colson
-L. Patrick Gray III [?]

Inaugural events
-Concert

Nixon Foundation trustees
-Meeting on Nixon Library
-Site selection
-San Clemente
-Scott Ebert [?]
-Whittier College site
-Clinton Harris
-Site selection
-Meeting with President
-Whittier College
-Ehrlichman's view
-San Clemente
-Yorba Linda
-Compared to Eisenhower
-Birthplace in Dennison, Texas
-Whittier College
-Advantages
-College consortium
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-John N. Mitchell
-Jack Drown
-W. Clement Stone
-H. Ross Perot
-Hubert Perry
-Harris
-Edward C. Nixon
-Donald F. Nixon
-Leonard K. Firestone
-Taft Schreiber
-Patricia R. Hitt
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-Leonard Garment
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Delores (Reade) Hope
-Mitchell

Item for President's signature

Inaugural events
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Health
-Frank Sinatra
-Substitution
-Master of ceremonies
-President's appearance
-Concerts
-Cast party
-President’s Inaugural speech
-Press relations

Raymond K. Price, Jr. entered at 5:04 pm.

President's schedule

Price left at 5:05 pm.

Inaugural events
-Appearances by President
-Ball
-Sinatra
-Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
-Ball
-Cast party
-Concert
-Weather
-Parade
-Audience reception by President
-Television [TV] coverage
-Flags
-Presidential box
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-Lighting
-TV coverage

President's schedule
-Stephen B. Bull
-Meeting with Graham
-Timing
-Coming weeks
-Other meetings
-John B. Connally [?]

Vietnam settlement
-Kissinger's trip
-Announcement
-Timing
-Press conference
-Prayer breakfast
-President’s schedule
-Hussein ibn Talal [Hussein, King of Jordan]
-Visit
-Announcement
-Ehrlichman
-Ziegler
-Presentation
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Teleprompter
-Taping
-Connally
-Charts, pictures

President's first term
-Accomplishments
-Credit
-1972 election
-Vote
-Volunteer armed forces
-Post Office Department
-Second term reorganization
-Roy L. Ash
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-Clinton Rossiter
-Book

Rossiter
-Death
-Kissinger
-Student riots
-Vietnam War

Second-term reorganization
-Rossiter
-Value
-Time required
-Haldeman's work
-Bull's work
-Haldeman's work
-Morale
-Compared to Sherman Adams and James Hagerty
-Ehrlichman
-Ash
-George P. Shultz
-Ehrlichman
-Outside support
-Mitchell


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-George H.W. Bush
-Visits to White House
-Camp David
-Robert S. Dole
-Team player
-Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
-Effect
-Goldwater
-Campaign
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President's schedule
-Price
-President’s Inaugural speech

Haldeman left at 5:23 pm.