Secret White House Tapes

801–17

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801–17
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • Rose Mary Woods
  • Jeanne Squire
  • Lucille Shriver
  • Barbara H. Franklin
  • Henry C. Cashen
  • White House photographer
October 17, 1972
Conversation No. 801-17

Date: October 17, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:10 pm - 12:22 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President’s schedule
-Gale E. Sayers
-The President’s view
-Forthcoming meeting with Jeanne Squire, Lucille Shriver and Rose Mary Woods
-Press photograph

Woods entered at an unknown time after 12:10 pm.

Woods's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with the representatives of the National Federation of
Business and Professional Women’s Clubs [BPW]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)


Bull left at an unknown time before 12:11 pm.

BPW
-Woods’s view
-The President’s view
-The President’s previous speech in Minneapolis
-Unknown secretaries’ organization
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Airplane crash
-The President's call to Corrine (Claiborne) (“Lindy”) Boggs

Squire, Shriver, Barbara H. Franklin, and Henry C. Cashen entered at 12:11 pm; the White
House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Introductions

Photographs
-Arrangement

Squire's schedule
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] [?]
-El Salvador
-BPW organizations in Latin America
[Photograph session]

BPW
-International organizations
-State Department [?]
-The President’s previous interactions with BPW
-The President’s experience as a member of the House of Representatives
-The President’s experience during his Senate campaign
-The President’s experience as Vice President
-BPW national convention
-The President’s view
-Value of BPW
-The President's conversation with Sayers
-Chicago Bears
-Economic opportunities for all Americans
-Opposition to discrimination of all forms
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Tape Subject Log
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-Age
-Gender
-Example of women doctors from the People’s Republic of China [PRC]

PRC
-Women’s clothes
-Traditional Chinese apparel
-Taiwan, Republic of China
-Vietnam
-Color
-Taiwan
-Hong Kong
-Singapore
-San Francisco
-Communist Chinese apparel
-Pants
-Lack of beauty
-The President’s previous trip to the PRC
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s appearance
-Colors of her clothes
-Red coat
-Hair style
-Compared to PRC women’s hair styles
-Women
-Appearance
-The President’s view

Presentation of gifts by the President
-Presidential seal
-Presidential pin

Presentation of gifts to the President by Squire
-1896 Republican National Convention tickets
-St. Louis
-William McKinley-William Jennings Bryant campaign
-Squire’s father
-Age
-Desire to give tickets to the President
-Value

Squire’s hometown
-Berea, Ohio
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Nov-03)


Presentation of gifts by the President
-Cuff links

Squire’s forthcoming trip to Latin America
-Forthcoming BPW convention

The Administration’s appointment of women
-Role of BPW
-Number of appointees
-Compared to other administrations
The President's father [Frank Nixon]
-Ohio background
-The President’s mother [Hannah Milhous Nixon]
-Indiana background

Woods’s possible enrollment in BPW

Woods et al. left at 12:22 pm.
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