Secret White House Tapes

837–3

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837–3
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • Rose Mary Woods
  • Manolo Sanchez
  • H. R. Haldeman
January 10, 1973
Conversation No. 837-3

Date: January 10, 1973
Time: Unknown between 9:05 am and 2:24 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

President's schedule
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Donald E. Johnson
-Veterans Administration
-Members of Council on Environmental Quality [CEQ]
-Ehrlichman
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Nicaragua [?]

Rose Mary Woods entered at 9:14 am.

President's surprise birthday party.

Bull left at an unknown time before 9:56 am.

-Gifts
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Man without Massachusetts and District of Columbia
-Abplanalp
-Dorothy [surname unknown]
-Charles G (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Paul W. Keyes
- White House third floor
- Refreshments
-Redecoration
-Manolo Sanchez


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-Film
-Keyes
-Dan Rowan and Dick Martin
-National Football League monologue
-Repeat showing

Film showing
-Staff
-Theater
-Haldeman
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Conference room

Birthday gifts
-Robert D. (“Bobby”) Baker [?]
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Telephone call

For Your Information [FYI] folder
-Birthday messages
-Inaugural address

President's schedule
-Florida trip
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Camp David
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-Florida
-Camp David
-Isolation
-President’s work

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-Florida
-Sunshine
-Appearance
-December 1972 trip
-Pool

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-Florida
-Woods
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-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Other staff
-Domestic policy message

President's correspondence
-Rowan and Martin
-Keyes
-Telephone call to Rowan and Martin
-Rowan and Martin film
-Showing for White House staff
-National Football League
-Pete Rozelle
-Staple [first name unknown]

The President dictated a letter to Staple.

-Birthday party
-Film
-Rowan and Martin
-Keyes
-Expression of appreciation

[End of dictation]

Film
-Keyes
-Editing
-Rowan and Martin
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-White House press corps


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-John B. Connally

Letter to Connally
-Instructions to Woods
-Graham letter

Surprise birthday party
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox


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-Blue Room
-Decorations
-Wallpaper
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Portrait of President
-Book on the 1972 election
-Captions on portrait
-Rebozo, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Rebozo
-Caricatures
-Telegrams
-Keyes
-White House staff
-Parties
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-Film showing
-Secretaries
-Noble Melencamp
-William J. Hopkins
-State Department
-Correspondence Section
-Presidential appointment

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:14 am.

Sanchez's appearance

Film showing
-Helene Colesie Drown
-Unknown woman
-Kissinger
-Haig
-President’s enjoyment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:20 pm.


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Birthday guests
-Roger E. Johnson
-Health
-Keyes
-Rebozo

Abplanalp, Lewis
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Louise Johnson and Roger E. Johnson
-Helene Colesie Drown and Jack Drown

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Films
-Old films compared to new films
-1776
-Wood’s recommendation
-Young Winston
-President's film schedule
-Actress


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Florida land sales
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Investment
-Rebozo

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Barbara Eisenhower's letter to President
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-Birthday party


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1973 Inauguration
-Church service
-Mamie G. D. Eisenhower
-John S. D. Eisenhower and Barbara Eisenhower
-Haldeman
-Cox family
-Children
-Limits on invitations
-John M. Shaheen
-Nova Scotia
-President’s brothers
-Mrs. Nixon
-Tricia Nixon Cox
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Congress members
-Attendance of relatives


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-Ned Sullivan
-Edward C. and F. Donald Nixon
-Arrangements
-John Eisenhower and Barbara Eisenhower

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-Travel accommodations
-President's family, Mrs. Nixon's family
-Mamie G. D. Eisenhower
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-John Eisenhower and Barbara Eisenhower
-Relatives' attendance
-Donald Nixon
-Parties
-Musical events
-Inaugural concerts
-Washington National Symphony
-Conductor
-Philadelphia Symphony
-Eugene Ormandy
-Washington National Symphony
-Fundraising
-Shoreham Hotel
-George S. McGovern

President's feelings about the District of Columbia
-Redskins fan
-Opposition to President
-Blacks

Haldeman
-President's phone

Haldeman entered at 9:56 am.

President's feelings about the District of Columbia
-Opposition to President
-Blacks, whites, Jews
-Compared to Los Angeles
-Cavalcade of musical comedy
-Sterling Holloway

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:56 am.
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President's schedule
-Counsellors
-Earl L. Butz
-James T. Lynn
-Caspar W. Weinberger, Jr.
-Russell E. Train
-John B. Connally

Bull left at an unknown time before 1:20 pm.

Second term reorganization
-Lewis
-James Keogh
-Frank Stanton
-United States Information Agency [USIA] Board
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Stanton
-American Red Cross Chairman
-Frank Shakespeare
-Michael J. O'Neill
-Broadcasting
-USIA Board
-State Department
-Stanton
-Leonard Wrench
-Cox Broadcasting
-John F. Kennedy
-Connally
-O'Neill
-Daily News
-Lewis
-Stanton

Television [TV] networks
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-President’s evaluations

Second term reorganization
-American Red Cross board of directors
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-Kendall
-E. Roland Harriman
-Stanton
-Cliff Folger
-Leonard Hall
-Folger
-Kendall
-Stanton
-CBS
-Nominating Committee
-Sol Linowitz
-Opposition to President
-Xerox
-Maurice Stans
-“S” list
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Rowland Harriman
-Stanton
-Charles W. Colson
-Kendall
-Pogue, Keogh

1972 campaign contributions
-Business Council
-Kendall
-McGovern
-Lack of support
-Stans
-Lists of contributors
-“S” list
-Security
-Daniel J. Evans
-Stans
-Herbert Brownell
-Daniel Ludwig
-Interior Department
-Brownell
-Cornelius V. (“Sonny”) Whitney
-Ambassadorship to Spain
-Appearance
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-Jack Dreyfus
-Dilantin
-Stans

Dilantin
-Stans’ use
-1972 campaign
-Epilepsy medication
-Dreyfus’ opinion
-President’s use
-Sleep aid
-Stans’ use
-Stress
-Wife
-Watergate
-Money
-Dreyfus

Second term reorganization
-Whitney
-Folger
-Stans' businessmen
-Folger's wife
-Kennedy Center Foundation
-Board member

Kennedy Center
-Name change
-Eisenhower Theatre
-Johnson Opera House
-Nixon Concert Hall

Memorials
-Harry S. Truman
-Presidency
-Abilities, character
-Atomic bomb
-Greece
-Korean War
-General Douglas Macarthur firing
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-President’s opinion
-Advice on Korea
-Bombing of China
-Yalu River
-Compared to President
-Role of generals
-Cambodia
-May 8, 1972 decision
-Congress
-Future writings

1973 Inauguration activities
-Ned Sullivan
-Planning

Film showing
-Keyes
-Martin and Rowan
-White House staff
-Ziegler
-Press
-Scheduling
-Ann Bolt
-Location
-Seating
-Herbert G. Klein
-Previous campaign staff

Second term reorganization
-Lewis

Raising of issues with President
-Dwight Eisenhower
-Burning Tree Country Club
-Lewis
-Stanton
-Rebozo
-Ehrlichman
-Bicentennial Commission
-Lewis recommendation
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-Executive Director
-David Mahoney
-Norton Simon
-Norton Simon Company
-Canada Dry
-Kendall
-Folger
-Stanton
-CBS
-Daniel Shorr
-TV special
-Shultz

Press relations
-Howard K. Smith
-Keyes
-[Pope Paul VI] Giovanni Battista Motini
-Bombing
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Casualties
-Truman
-Atomic bombing
-Dwight Eisenhower
-North Korea
-“Terror bombing”
-Civilian population
-Compared to President
-Vietnam
-Carpet bombing
-Civilian casualties
-Shorr
-Wage and price controls announcement
-Shultz
-Possible answer
-Shorr’s misinformation
-Ehrlichman
-Possible answer
-Shorr’s analysis
-Claude S. Brinegar
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid's comment
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Daniel Shorr
-FBI investigation
-North Vietnamese
-Contacts
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Partisanship
-Dwight Eisenhower
-President’s critics
-1972 election
-Ziegler
-President's reaction
-Indoctrination of new staff
-Cambodia
-May 8, 1972 decision
-Social events
-Klein

Washington National Symphony
-Rose Mary Woods's conversation with unknown person
-President's efforts on behalf
-Jean Nelson
-Symphony Board
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Outreach programs
-Electoral support for President
-Blacks
-Whites
-David Kreeger
-Chairman
-McGovern

Philadelphia Symphony
-McGovern
-Eugene Ormandy
-Political support
-Van Cliburn
-Political support
-Antal Dorati
-Political support
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Inaugural concert
-Edvard Grieg concerto
-“Polanaise”
-Grieg
-Scandinavians
-Poles
-New Majority
-Peter Tchaikovsky
-Piano concerto
-\"1812 Overture\"
-“Polonaise”
-Grieg
-Wolfgang Mozart
-Ludwig Beethoven
-Mozart
-Paris
-Ambassador
-Ormandy
-American medley
-\"America the Beautiful\"
-“Polonaise”
-President's visit to Canada
-Music
-\"This is My Country\"
-\"1812 Overture\"
-Valley Forge Choir
-\"Victory At Sea\"
-Guadalcanal March
-World War II
-Cliburn
-Grieg
-“Polonaise”


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Myths on President’s preference
-Beer
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-Michelob
-Lone Star
-Heineken
-Denmark

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 9:56 am.

Personal instructions
-Havana cigars
-Disguise

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:20 pm.

Music
-Ormandy
-Zeigler
-Walter H. Annenberg


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-President’s preference
-Aaron Copland
-President’s Preference
-Franz Liszt preludes
-Dorati
-Adolph Hitler
-Beethoven
-Josef Stalin
-Tchaikovsky
-Hitler
-Richard Wagner
-[President whistles]
-Nell Yates
-Tricia Nixon Cox
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-Hitler
-Chou En-Lai
-Mao Tse-Tung
-Stalin

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Chinese acrobat show
-Shanghai
-Audience reaction
-William P. Rogers introduction
-Chinese orchestra

Washington National Symphony
-Washington, DC
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-President's efforts on behalf
-Black children
-Sequoia
-Circus
-Washington Post
-New York
-Philadelphia
-Kansas
-Disadvantaged children
-Blacks
-Polish
-Italians
-Peter J. Brennan
-President's views on racial discrimination

Inaugural music
-Ormandy

Georgetown cocktail set
-Phil Watts
-Peter G. Peterson
-Kissinger
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-Thomas W. Braden
-Kissinger
-Joan Braden
-Sans Souci Restaurant
-Ehrlichman
-Parties
-Wives
-President’s description
-Drinking
-Compared to California parties
-Joseph W. Alsop
-President’s view
-Alternatives
F Street Club [?]
-Blair House
-Table House

Washington parties
-President's feelings
-Necessity
-Republicans
-Old family set
-Folger family
-J. Clifford Folger
-Jan Evans and Dan Evans
-Republicans
-Percy Brundage
-Director of Budget
-Herbert Hoover
-Ziegler
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Press relations
-Washington Post
-Braden party
-Old family set
-Perkins McGuire
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Personnel announcement
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-Robert Dixon
-Assistant Attorney General
-James D. (\"Mike\") McKevitt
-Election loss
-Assistant Attorney General for Legislation
-Colorado defeat
-Olympics
-Denver

Gordon L. Allott
-Call to Woods
-Wife
-Ambassadorship
-Middle East

Jack Miller
-Future
-Laziness
-Waterloo, Iowa

Desmond J. Barker, Jr.
-Colson’s office
-Utah
-Public relations [PR] firm
-Abilities

Readjustments to one's former home
-President's experiences
-Los Angeles
-New York
-Tom Dewey

Receptionists
-Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, and Alexander
-President's former law firm
-Johns S. Guthrie, Jr.
-Milton C. Rose
-John H. Alexander
-President’s visit
-Betty McVey
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-Personality
-Lil Lenay [?]
-Campaign work
-Dorothy Cox
-Abilities
-Shelley Buchanan
-Personality
-Dorothy Cox
-Rebozo
-White House secretary
-Terry Decker
-Irving Trust Company
-Interview
-New York
-Crime
-Ohio
-Washington, DC
-Cities for employment
-Los Angeles
-San Francisco
-New York
-Jews
-Blacks
-Washington, DC
-Protocol

Cities
-Chicago
-Edward E. David, Jr.
-Homosexuality
-Washington, DC
-New York
-San Francisco
-Los Angeles
-North Hollywood
-Pasadena
-Decker
-New York
-Connecticut
-Adulterers
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-Unknown woman
-Mugging
-New York
-United Nations [UN]

UN
-George H. W. Bush
-US delegation
-John A. Scali
-Staff
-Unknown woman
-Paul Stevens
-Mary Stevens
-Charles W. Yost
-Staff loyalty
-Afghanistan

Decker
-Chicago
-Los Angeles
-Long Island
-Atlanta
-Abilities
-Conversation with President
-Ambitions

Secretarial positions
-Importance
-Decker
-Proximity to important men
-Haldeman’s early career
-President's former law firm
-Decker
-Receptionists compared to typists
-Importance
-Haldeman’s office
-Police officer
-White House reception room
-Changes
-Police office, Secret Service, press
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-Décor
-White House basement entrance
-Messengers
-Blacks
-Messengers

Blacks in Washington, DC
-White House staff
-Respectfulness
-Race relations
-Oregon incident
-Racial violence
-Unknown Virginia couple
-Black Power
-Revolution
-Civil libertarians
-Shootings
-Police

Social secretary appointment
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Mrs. Nixon
-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
-Employment
-USIA
-Ann Dore
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Marge Byers
-Life
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Press relations
-Lewis family, Ablanalp family, Keyes
-White House third floor
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Redecoration
-Solarium

Administration social parties
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Claude S. Brinegar
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-Peter J. Brennan
-Surrogates
-Kissinger
-Time-Life officials
-Kissinger
-Ehrlichman
-Lewis
-Advertisers
-David Eisenhower and Julie Nixon Eisenhower


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Administration social parties
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-White House
-Youth
-House
-White House parties
-Fina Sanchez, Manolo Sanchez
-White House staff
-Representation fund
-Mess stewards
-Catering
-Security clearances
-Mrs. Nixon's schedule
-Future Farmers' wives
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-Washington, DC events
-National press coverage
-Rose Parade
-Football
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Social secretary
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Work style
-Rex W. Scouten
-Astronaut dinner
-Los Angeles

Bull's responsibilities
-Winchester
-Scheduling
-David N. Parker
-Stuart
-Mrs. Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Ziegler

White House social affairs
-President's wishes
-Winchester
-Mrs. Nixon
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-Lawrence M. Higby, Dwight L. Chapin


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The President’s wishes
-Mrs. Nixon

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-Butterfield
-Bull
-Bull’s responsibility
-Woods’ roll
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Ziegler
-Press relations
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Bull
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Woods
-Seating arrangements
-Winchester
-Mrs. Peter Peterson
-Adele Rogers
-Mrs. Nixon
-Dinner for Edward R. G. Heath
-Mrs. Robert Lowell Bacon
-Longworth
-Military protocol staff
-Great Britain
-Germany
-Willy Brandt
-Kurt Kiesinger
-Del Webb
-President’s role
-Mrs. Nixon
-Handshaking
-Congress members
-Golda Meir
-President’s socializing preferences
-Political leaders
-Georges J. R. Pompidou
-Heath
-Handshaking
-Dinners
-Length
-Toasting
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
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-Cabinet dinner
-Service
-Francisco Franco
-King of Thailand
-King of Belgium
-Toasting
-Great Britain
-Latin Americans
-Translation
-Guests
-Don Nixon
-Complaints
-Rule
-State Department
-Heath
-Camp David
-Comparable guests
-Protocol
-NSC [National Security Council]
-Kissinger
- Haig
-Gen. Brent G. Scrowcroft
-Helmut Sonnenfeldt
-Departure
-Matching numbers of officials
-State dinners
-Evenings at the White House
-State Department officials
-NSC staff
-Scowcroft
-Richard Kennedy
-Kissinger
-Sonnenfeldt
-Operational responsibilities
-Compared to Assistant Secretary of State
-Europe
-Protocol
-Stans
-List of campaign contributors
-Assistant Secretary of Commerce
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-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Invitations
-State dinners
-Evenings at the White House
-Campaign contributors
-Amounts
-Bobst
-Evenings at the White House
-State visits
-Golda Meir
-Jews
-State dinners
-Cost
-President’s effort
-Evening at the White House
-Celebrities
-Handshaking
-Church services
-Handshaking
-Invitations
-Arthur F. Burns
-Campaign workers
-Earl Warren
-Warren E. Burger
-Mrs. Burger
-Dinners
-Contributors
-Blair House
-Details
-White House
-Blue Room
-Bull
-Chief of Protocol
-James J. Reynolds
-Robert H. Finch
-Jewish heritage
-Mrs. Reynolds

Ambassadorship for Mexico
-James Reynolds
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-Campaign contribution
-Finch’s promise
-Stans’ list
-Importance
-Business interests
-Confirmation
-Other Latin American post
-Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Unknown person
-Gerald R. Ford
-Campaign contributors
-Spanish language
-Stans’ list
-Reynolds
-Amounts
-John Crable
-Fundraising
-Wife
-Ambassadorship
-Leonard Garment
-Reynolds
-Jewish heritage
-Finch

Chief of Protocol
-Frank Borman
-Stans's list
-John Lewis
-Chicago
-Johnson wax family
-Wife
-Campaign contributions
-Ambassadorship
-Germany
-Functions
-Emil Mosbacher, Jr.
-State visits
-President's trips abroad
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Great Wall
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-Mrs. Mosbacher
-PRC
-Soviet Union
-Great Britain
-France
-Germany
-Mosbacher
-Role as host
-Functions of wife of Chief of Protocol
-Winchester
-Introductions
-State dinners
-State dinner in Canada
-Protocol
-Quality
-Assignments
-Military aides
-John V. (“Jack”) Brennan
-Winchester
-Protocol officer responsibilities
-Jo Anne (Horton) Haldeman
-Protocol responsibilities
-State visits
-Car
-Mosbacher
-Borman
-William R. Codus
-Assistant Chief of Protocol
-Mosbacher
-Types
-Kissinger, H. R. Haldeman, Mosbacher
-Wiley Buchanan
-Chapin
-Codus
-Advance man
-William Meeker
-Responsibilities
-State dinners
-Assistant’s role
-Codus
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-Mosbacher
-Introductions
-Escort
Mrs. Mosbacher
-Mrs. Nixon
-Handshaking
-Soviet Union trip
-PRC trip
-Resignation
-Kissinger
-Protocol experiences in PRC
-Responsibilities
-Winchester
-President's preference
-Young couple
-Mosbacher
-Entertaining
-Symphony Ball chairman
-Codus
-Brennan
-Marion H. Smoak, wife
-Martha Beall Mitchell
-Requirements
-Meeker
-Advance man
-California
-New York
-Family background
-Alhambra, California
-Father
-1946 campaign
-University of Southern California [USC]
-Helene Drown
-Peter Daly
-November group
-Wife
-Richard Wallen
-All-American University of California Los Angeles [UCLA]
-Wife
-Smoak
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-Wife
-J. Strom Thurmond
-Mosbacher
-Wallen
-Codus’ wife


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-Children
-Wallen
-Daly
-Wallen
-Advertising agency
-Importance of man and wife
-Age
-Michael Duval
-Advance man
-Lawyer
-Requirements
-Handshake
-Masculinity
-Football players
-Frank Gifford
-Age
-Social class
-Duval
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-Advance man work
-General Counsel appointment
-California rally
-Chase Manhattan Bank
-Advance men
-Menial work
-Mosbacher
-Japanese Prime Minister
-Hawaiian Dinner
-Advance man
-Mosbacher
-Foreign press relations
-Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Chapin
-Performance
-Reynolds
-1952 campaign
-Dwight Eisenhower
-Rally
-Enthusiasm
-John E. Nidecker
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Stans' list
-Lester Ruwe
-L. Nicholas Ruwe
-Mrs. Nixon
-Sexual Orientation


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-Campaign contribution
-Brownell
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-Whitney
-Ruwe family
-Nicholas Ruwe
-Ambassadorship
-Codus
-Ambassadorship
-Reynolds
-Nicholas Ruwe
-Advance man
-1962 gubernatorial campaign
-Confirmation
-Alcohol
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-James Roy Goodearle
-William P. Rogers
-New York
-21 Restaurant
-Brother
-USIA
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-J. William Fulbright
-State Department
-Vietnam War

Confirmation of State Department officials
-Rogers
-Ambassadors
-Vietnam War
-Kissinger
-Congressional relations
-Walter J. Hickel[?]
-Kissinger
-Fulbright
-Charles L. Percy

Impoundment of funds
-Housing subsidies
-George W. Romney
-Builders
-Percy
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-Higher taxes
-Blacks

Administration discipline
-Percy
-Wiliam B. Saxbe
-Kissinger
-Supporters in Senate
-John G. Tower
-John C. Stennis
-Herman E. Talmadge
-Bennett Johnston
-Louisiana
-Voting record
-Atten J. Ellender
-Sam Nunn
-David H. Gambrell
-Walter Huddleston
-Kentucky
-John Sherman Cooper

Re-confirmation of Federal judges
-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
-Mandatory retirement
-Supreme Court judges

Age limits for Congress
-Norris Cotton
-Percy
-Cotton


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Percy
-Prospects for 1976 Presidential nomination
-South

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Republican Congressional candidates
-Qualities
-Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson
-Clarence K. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.
-Ford
-Resignation
-Ed Shurar
-Colgate Prentiss
-Gen. Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
-Robert Blair
-Robert Payner
-Christian A. Herter


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-Brown
-Age
-Oklahoma
-Ken Jones
-Lyndon Johnson
-President’s support
-Gene Belcher
-George A. Murphy
-1970 election
-Finch
-Larry Byrd
-Utah
-Margaret Chase Smith
-[First name unknown] Lewis
-Assistant
-Heart attack
-Campaigning

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-Unknown man
-Age

Congressional relations
-Age
-Roman L. Hruska
-Wallace F. Bennett
-Mansfield
-Hugh Scott
-William E. Brock, III
-Tennessee
-Pete V. Domenici
-Henry L. Bellmon
-Dewey F. Bartlett
-Scott
-Walter F. Mondale
-Herman Talmadge
-Eugene Talmadge


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-Percy
-Opportunism
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Intelligence
-Robert P. Griffin
-Howard H. Baker, Jr., Brock
-Baker
-Joy Baker
-Robert J. Dole
-Jacob K. Javits
-Mayor
-New York City
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-John V. Lindsay
-Drug issue
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-Richard S. Schweiker
-J. Clenn Beall, Jr.
-Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
-Schweiker
-Saxbe
-Beall
-Marlow W. Cook
-Potential
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Tower
-Intelligence
-Women
-Negativity
-Bush, MacGregor
-Leadership potential
-Senate
-Rumsfeld
-State race
-Adlai E. Stevenson, III
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] ambassadorship
-Illinois
-OEP
-NSC
-John B. Anderson
-Philip M. Crane
-Rumsfeld
-John Anderson
-Kiki Anderson
-Political orientation
-Stevenson
-Finch
-Murray M. Chotiner
-Polls
-Republican Party
-California
-Governor’s race
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Alan Cranston
-Senate race
-Reagan
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-Opposition to Finch
-Nancy Reagan
-1958 election
-Edwin Reinecke
-Lieutenant Governor’s race
-Colson
-Chotiner
-Manager
-Murphy
-Reagan
-John V. Tunnry
-1962 campaign
-Tunney
-Cranston
-Compared to Rumsfled
-Appearance
-Wives
-Cranston, Wife
-Political options
-Senator
-Governor
-President
-Management abilities
-Rumsfeld
-Negotiating abilities
-Favors from Governor
-Leonard K. Firestone
-Holmes P. Tuttle
-Henry Salvatori
-Taft Schreiber
-Political options
-Rumsfeld
-Cranston
-Possible death
-Ellender
-Johnston
-Political future
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Chappaquiddick
-President’s first Senate race
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-Sheridan Downey
-Helen Gahagen Douglas
-Rumsfeld
-1970 election
-Chotiner
-Thomas Kleppe
-Burton [First name unknown]
-Campaign contributions
-Bush
-Brosk, Baker
-Rumsfeld
-President’s House of Representatives campaign

Possible deaths
-Reagan
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Nick Begich
-Airplane crash
-Alaska
-Use of small airplanes for campaigns
-Hickel
-Conversation with Jo Haldeman
-VIP aircraft
-Alaska
-Lindy Boggs
-Election prospect
-PRC trip
-Louisiana
-Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
-Wife’s death
-Children
-Health
-Public relations [PR]
-Kennedy family
-Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Senate Campaign Committee Chairman
-Dominick
-Accident
-Leadership
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-Age
MacGregor
-Congress leaders meeting

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Gordon L. Allott
-Employment possibilities
-Cabinet appointment
-Transportation Department
-Treasury department
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Circuit Court of Appeals
-Supreme Court

Borman
-Secretary of Defense
-Chief of Protocol
-Advance man
-Dinners
-Nicholas Ruwe
-William E. Timmons [?]
-Liberal guests
-State Department

Rose Mary Woods left at 1:20 pm.

Second term reorganization
-Decisions
-J. Stanley Pottinger
-Review
-Ehrlichman

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 2:24 pm.
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