820–18

Conversation No. 820-18

Date: December 12, 1972
Time: 1:58 pm - 2:20 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Meeting with Jewell R. Lafontant, John D. Ehrlichman
-Meeting with Gordon C. Strachan, Frank J. Shakespeare

Haldeman’s conversation with William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-The President’s possible meeting with Graham
-Graham’s trip
-1972 election
-Graham’s meeting with [Shah of Iran] Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
-Civilization
-Shah’s message for the President
-Second term reorganization
-Young people
-1973 Inauguration worship service at White House
-John Cardinal Krol
-Graham
-Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin
-Black minister
-Dr. E. V. Hill
-Convictions of Christ
-Effect on Jews
-Ecumenical service
-Evangelical reaction
-Participants
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Conversation No. 820-18 (cont’d)

-Black minister
-Greek, Jew, Catholic, Protestant
-Black Protestant
-Invocation, benediction
-Number
-Greek
-Black
-1969 Inauguration
-Avoiding separate service
-Norman Vincent Peale
-Black minister
-Protestants
-Hill
-California Baptist Convention
-Participants
-Graham
-Krol
-Magnin
-Geography
-Hill
-Protocol
-Procession
-New Majority
-Washington, DC hierarchy
-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan appointment
-Effect on Indian democracy

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 2:20 pm.

Telephone call
-Corinne (Claiborne) (“Lindy”) Boggs
-The President’s previous call
-William E. Timmons’s possible telephone call
-[Pegge (Jendro) Begieh]
-Memorial service for [Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Carl B. Albert
-Drinking
-Return call
-Timmons
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Conversation No. 820-18 (cont’d)

-Albert’s secretary
-Timmons’s possible call
-Memorial service
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon’s attendance
-California
-Memorial service
-The President’s attendance
-Pressures
-Presidential airplane
-Allen J. Ellender funeral

Second term reorganization
-Moynihan
-Symbolism
-The President’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Changes
-Press relations
-Ziegler’s view
-John F. Osborne
-Defense Department
-State Department
-Justice Department
-William P. Rogers
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Press relations
-Washington, DC
-The President’s conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-1972 election
-Power

Press relations
-New Republic
-[Oriana Fallaci] story
-Osborne
-Return calls from Kissinger
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-News summary
-Pravda
-Osborne and Hugh S. Sidey
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Conversation No. 820-18 (cont’d)

-Analyses
-Osborne
-Kissinger interview
-Interview techniques
-Washington Post
-East Wing
-The President’s conversation with Ziegler
-Possible staff firings
-Photographers
-Christmas
-Mrs. Nixon
-Tree

Watergate
-Buchanan’s note
-Donald H. Segretti
-White House statements
-Upcoming trials
-Segretti case
-Status
-Edward M. Kennedy’s action
-Congressional investigation
-White House action
-White House, Committee for the Re-election of the President [CRP]
involvement
-Second term reorganization
-Post-1972 election
-Trial, Kennedy investigation
-The President’s possible statement
-Credibility
-Timing
-Trial, investigation
-White House “White Paper”
-The President’s possible statement
-Haldeman’s view
-Record
-White House staff involvement
-The President’s meeting with Gordon C. Strachan
-Dwight L. Chapin
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Conversation No. 820-18 (cont’d)

-Retention or departure
-Richard A. Moore’s view
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
-Moore’s view
-Haldeman’s view
-Charles W. Colson
-Public relations [PR]
-Moore’s view
-Reappointment
-Timing
-Christmas
-Private sector job
-Alexander P. Butterfield

Second term reorganization
-Butterfield
-Secretary of the Air Force or Navy
-Cronyism
-Political handout
-Under Secretary
-State Department
-Defense Department
-White House
-Women
-Meetings
-Mexican-Americans
-Frederic V. Malek
-Cabinet
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Meeting with the President
-Chief of Protocol
-Compared to Special Assistant to the President
-Visibility
-William R. Codus
-Deputy Chief of Protocol
-John E. Nidecker
-Herbert G. Klein
-Armstrong
-Chief of Protocol
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Conversation No. 820-18 (cont’d)

-Ambassadorship
-Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
-Chief of Protocol
-Ambassadorship to France or Britain
-Jews
-Ambition

Call to Albert
-Timmons
-Instruction
-John C. Stennis

George P. Shultz
-Conversation with Peter G. Peterson
-Peterson’s trip

The President and Haldeman left at 2:20 pm.