Date: November 24, 1972
Time: 11:47 am – 12:47 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
Present
Oval Office furnishings
-Music box
-Antique
-Elephant
-Louie B. Nunn
-Heirloom
-Placement in office
-Nunn’s [?] telephone call
-Lucy Ferguson
[Music box in operation]
[My Old Kentucky Home]
White House gifts
-Music boxes
-Cost
-Number
-Cost
-Songs
-Selection
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-Costs
-Tie pins
-Cuff links
-Tie tacks
-Cabinet
-Women
-Bow pins
-Cuff links
-Cabinet
-Departures
-Robert H. Finch
-Herbert G. Klein
-George W. Romney
-John H.Volpe
-Wives
-Ambassadors [?]
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 11:49 am.
-Cost
-Cabinet
-State gifts
-Music boxes
-Tricia Nixon Cox, Edward R. F. Cox
-Music boxes
[Music box in operation]
-Cabinet
-Sample
-Description
-Date
-Lighthouse
-Purchase
-Numbers
-Manufacturer
-Belkin
White House mail
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White House gifts
-Vases
-Presentation of boxes
-Composition
-Lucite
-Alloy
-Description
-Replica
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Star of the President
-Steuben
-Styles
-Presentation boxes
-The President’s memoranda
-Recipients
-Celebrities
-Friends, supporters
-Foreign visitors
-Costs
-Star of the President
-Presentation boxes
-Distribution
-Display
-Presentation boxes
-Cost
-State gifts
-Cuff links
-Number
-Music boxes
-Cabinet
-Cost
-Songs
-Catalog
-Color
-Presidential blue
-Songs
-Victory at Sea
-Musical comedy
-Oklahoma, The King and I
-Color
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-Blue
-Compared to brown
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-Cost
-F. Donald Nixon
-Ryan family
-Close family friends
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Music boxes
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The President’s schedule
Weather
The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming trip to New York
-Leonard Garment
-Reaction to invitation
Woods left at 12:01 pm.
-Recent meetings with John A. Volpe and George W. Romney
-Tone
-Haldeman
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Volpe
-Ambassadorship to Italy
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-Departure
-Romney
-Meeting with Peter G. Peterson
Vietnam negotiations
-William P. Rogers, unknown person
-Haldeman’s recent conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
-Report of meeting of Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, Xuan Thuy, and Alexander
M. Haig, Jr.
-Decisions
-November 25, 1972 meeting
-The President’s trip to New York
-November 25, 1972 meeting
-Instructions
-Message
-November 25, 1972
-US position
-Explanation
-Kissinger’s return to US
-Timing
-The President’s messages to Kissinger
-Instructions
-Kissinger’s call to Haldeman
-Haldemans’s recent conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Tone
-The President’s message to Kissinger
-Possible breakdown of talks
-October 8, 1972 meetings
-Strategy
-Recall of Kissinger for consultations
-US bombing
-Public Relations [PR]
-Compared to the President’s November 3, 1969, Cambodia
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[April 30, 1970] and May 8, 1972 speeches
-1972 campaign
-Recent meetings
-Kissinger’s recent meeting with [Lt. Gen. T.N.J. Suharto
and Adm. Malik] in Brussels
-State Department
-“Let down”
-Congressional relations
-Options
-Limitations
-PR
-Kissinger’s responsibility
-Pace of talks
-South Vietnam
-Raised expectations
-1972 election
-Political problems
-1972 election
-Peace with honor
-Settlement agreement
-Necessity
-Opposition by Nguyen Van Thieu
-The President’s recent message
-Tone
-Kissinger
-Possible separate peace
-The President’s May 8, 1972 proposals
-US public support
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Cease-fire
-South Vietnamese self-determination
-US Options
-PR
-Congress
-Aid cut off
-Effect on South Vietnam
-The President’s Message
-Tone
-The President’s message to Kissinger
-North Vietnamese intransigence
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-October 8, 1972 meetings
-Recall of Kissinger for consultations
-The President’s directive
-Subtlety
-Kissinger’s mood
-Alternative
-Congress
-Reactions in January 1973
-George S. McGovernites
-Lie allegation
-US bombing
-Funding
-Polls
-Timing
-Change
-Thieu
-Tenure
-Cease-fire
-POWs
-South Vietnamese self-determination
-Elections
-North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam
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Republican National Committee Chairmanship
-Robert J. Dole
-Meeting with the President
-Mitchell
-Arrangements
-Possible problems
-Party support for change
-Meeting with the President
-Difficulties
-Full-time chairman
-Meeting with Mitchell
-The President’s letter to Finch
-Support
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-California
-Problems
-Attacks from Ronald W. Reagan
-Right
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Watergate
-Mitchell
-Recent conversation with Haldeman
-Possible meeting of Haldeman, Mitchell, John D. Ehrlichman and John W. Dean,
III
-Discussion of problems
-The President’s conversation with Dean, September 15, 1972
-Ehrlichman’s possible presence at current meeting
-Protection of Presidency
-Dean’s possible statement
-Timing
-The President’s August 29, 1972 statement
-Dean report
-Involvement of White House staff
-Reiteration
-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]
-Maurice Stans
-Mitchell
-Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Donald H. Segretti
-Timing
-Ehrlichman’s view
-“Hang-out”
-Dean’s investigation
-Rebuttals
-Charles W. Colson
-Haldeman
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Ehrlichman’s and Dean’s view
-The President’s involvement
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-PR
-Dean’s report per the President’s direction
-Findings
-White House involvement
-White House staff
-Chapin
-CRP request
-Recommendation
-Direction and knowledge of activities
-Forthcoming staff meeting
-Departure
-Chapin
-White House plans
-Segretti
-Gordon C. Strachan
-Activities
-Compared to Chapin
-Activities
-Timing
-1972 primaries
-1972 election
-Republican National Convention
-Chapin
-White House plans
-Departure
-Nixon Foundation
-Marriott Corporation
-Strachan
-Law practice
-Age
-Compared to Chapin
-Ehrlichman
-Conversation with the President
-Legalistic approach
-Protection of Presidency
-Dean report
-Dean’s possible statement
-Clarity
-Dean report
-Individuals’ involvement
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-Watergate
-Segretti
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Gerald R. Ford
-Timing
-Return to Washington, DC
-Cabinet appointments
-Presentation to press
-Timing
-Lunch
-Briefing
-Ehrlichman
-Letters
-Changes
-Public service
-Departures and new appointments
Second term reorganization
-Cabinet appointments
-Presentation to press
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Camp David
– -The President’s possible statement
-Letters
-Changes
-Public service
-Departures and new appointments
-Rogers
-Possible statement
-Photograph opportunity
-The President’s role
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Questions
-Announcements
-Camp David
-Timing
-Decisions
-Future
-Arrangement
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-Roy L. Ash
-Caspar W. (“Cap”)Weinberger
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Melvin R. Laird
-Rogers
-George P. Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-Peterson
-Europe
-David M. Kennedy
-Donald H. Rumsfield
-Labor Department
-Department of Housing and Urban Development
[HUD]
-Labor Department
-Peter J. Brennan
-Colson
-Timing
-HUD
-Romney
-Rogers C. B. Morton
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Earl L. Butz
-United Nations [UN]
-Economic European Community [EEC] [?]
-Kleindienst
-Shultz
-News coverage
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Camp David
-Haldeman’s recent conversation with John B Connally
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-Richardson
-State Department
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Under secretary
-Duration
-William T. Casey’s role
-Casey’s role
-Compared to Clements’s role
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-Defense Department
-Connally’s request for a meeting with the President
-Agenda
-Soviet Union gas deal
-National Park Service
-George B. Hartzog, Jr.
-Retention
-Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Belton K. (“B.K.”) Johnson
-Administration’s image
-Camp David
-The President’s schedule
-Appointments
-Announcements
-Camp David
-Ziegler’s role
-Presence of appointees
-Biographies
-Press relations
-Clements
-Teens
-Press relations
-The President’s role
-Tone
-Meeting with President
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Ford
-Meeting with Archibald K. Davis
-James T. Lynn
-John A. Scali
-Thomas (“Tommy the Cork”) Corcoran
-Under Secretaries
-Ehrlichman
-William E. Simon
-Treasury Department
-Selection for meetings
-Counselors
-Importance
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Second term reorganization
-Cabinet
-Brennan
-Department of Transportation
-Frederic V. Malek
-Ivy League image
-Brennan
-Davis
-Butz
-Lynn
-Education
-Adelbert College
-Ohio
-Harvard University
-West Coast
-Harvard University
-Richardson
-Kleindienst
-Weinberger
-Lynn
-Ash
-Masters of Business Administration [MBA]
-Lynn
-Background
-Ohio
-Ethnicity
-Scandinavia
-Age
-Compared to Peterson
-Recruitment
-States
-Texas
-Midwest
-Shultz
-Chicago
-West
-Education
-Shultz
-Princeton University
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
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-Butz
-Purdue University
-Davis
-University of North Carolina
-Malek
-Brennan
-City College
-Rogers
-Colgate University
-Cornell University
-Harvard University
-State background
-New York
-Massachusetts
-Arizona
-Illinois
-California
-Ohio
-Indiana
-North Carolina
-Maryland
-New York
-Brennan
-California
-Ash
-Ash
-Education
-Harvard University
-Malek
-Education
-Harvard University
-Department of Transportation
-Volpe
-[Adm. Eugene Joseph Peltier]
-Background
-Ethnicity
-France
-Navy
-Bureau of Yards and Docks
-The President’s recent meeting with Volpe
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-Ehrlichman
-Robert J. Hitt
-Morton
-The President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Loyalty
-Department of Transportation
-Benjamin F. Biaggini
-Background
-Possible Catholicism
-Support for the President
-Fund raising
-Possible conflict of interest
-Qualifications
-Management ability
-Biaggini
-Hitt
-Loyalty
-The President
-Morton
Post-1972 election
-Haldeman’s recent conversation with Mitchell
-Gabriel Hauge
-[Watergate]
-Mood
-Hauge letter
-Flanigan’s view
Ambassadorships
-Flanigan’s responsibility
-The President’s recent conversation with Flanigan
-Stans
-Stan’s responsibility
-Kissinger’s role
-Haldeman’s role
-Rogers
-Kissinger’s role
Post-1972 election
-Hauge letter
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-Flanigan’s view
-Mood
White House Staff
-Letter writing
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Speech writing
Haldeman’s possible telephone call to Rogers
-Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s instructions
-Option
-Copies
-Second term reorganization
-State Department
-John N. Irwin, III
-Ambassadorship to France
-U. Alexis Johnson
-Departure
Stephen B. Bull entered at 12:31 pm.
Bull’s schedule
-The President’s forthcoming trip to New York
Bull’s job
-1972 Campaign [?]
Bull left at 12:32 pm.
Ambassadorships
-Elmer H. Bobst
-“Intelligence reports”
-The President’s possible telephone call
-The President’s schedule
-Possible visit to [Elmer Holmes Bobst General Library and Study
Center]
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Second term reorganization
-Morale
-The President’s possible visits to agencies and departments
-Ehrlichman’s view
-[Watergate]
-Heckling
-Alternative
-The President’s possible meetings with Cabinet level officials
-Cabinet Room
-State Department, Defense Department
-Ehrlichman’s view
-Appointments [personnel changes]
-Number
-Retentions
-Promotions
-Departures
-Alternative
-The President’s possible meetings with Presidential appointees
-Presentation by Cabinet officers
Bull entered at unknown time after 12:32 pm.
White House
-Chairs
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
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Haldeman and Bull left at 12:47 pm.