Date: December 12, 1972

Time: 12:05 pm – 12:25 pm

Location: Oval Office

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

1973 Inauguration

-Balls

-Number

-[J. Williard Marriott]

-John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts

-Number of guests

-Compared to 1969 Inauguration

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-Fundraising and social events

-Smithsonian Institution

-Hotels

-Smithsonian Institution

-National History Museum

-National Gallery of Art

-Hotels

-Kennedy Center

-Vice President’s reception

-The President’s attendance

-Governors’ salute

-Kennedy Center

-The President’s attendance

-Timing

-The President’s attendance

-Stars

-American music concert

-The President’s instructions

-Leonard Garment, [Nancy Hanks]

-Modern music

-Folk and country music

-Unknown dancer

-Garment

Second term reorganization

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Attempts to locate

The President’s schedule

-Mayor of Whittier, California [Blake Sanborn]

-Rose Mary Woods

-Michael J. Farrell

-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-David N. Parker

-Conversation with Haldeman

-Mrs. Nixon’s schedule

-Embarrassment

-Camp David

-White House staff instructions

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Congressional relations

-Recommended telephone calls

-Thomas C. Korologos

-Carl B. Albert

-Attendance at services [for [Thomas] Hale Boggs]

-Mrs. Nixon

-Return call

-John C. Stennis

-Korologos

-Dr. James R. Schlesinger

-Talking paper

-Richard M. Helms

-Ambassadorship to Iran

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

-Helms

-Possible conversation with Haldeman

-Kissinger’s return from Paris

-Announcement

-Timing

-Korologos

-Kissinger

-View of Helms

-Haig

Second term reorganization

-James Keogh

-Herbert G. Klein

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Value

-Personality

-Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan

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-Relations with White House staff

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-Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart

-Lucy A. Winchester

-Stephen B. Bull

-Working relationship

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-Secretarial work

-Scheduling

-White House, East Wing

-Trips, special events, women surrogates

-Coworker

-Personality

-Coworker

-Specific assignment

-William E. Timmons

-Need for backup

-John D. Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Kissinger

-Bryce N. Harlow

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:05 pm.

The President’s schedule

-Meeting with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis and John H. Kauffmann

-Private meeting with Lewis

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:25 pm.

Second term reorganization

-Congressional relations

-Timmons

-Role as the President’s spokesperson

-Effectiveness

-Timmons’s meeting with the President

-Timmons’s assumption of job

-Timmons’s personality

-John B. Connally’s view

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-Haldeman, Ehrlichman

-The President’s workload

-Roy L. Ash

-Appointments and nominations

-The President’s role

-Stennis

-Schlesinger

-Nation Park Service [NPS] [George B. Hartzog, Jr.]

-Stennnis

-Haldeman

-W[illiam] Stuart Symington

-Possible meeting with the President

-Helms

-Announcement

-Timing

-Charles W. Colson’s office

-Recommendations

-Telephone calls

-Albert

-Corinne (Claiborne) (“Lindy”) Boggs

-Coordination

-Stennis

-Alexander P. Butterfield

-Timmons

-Haldeman

-Peter G. Peterson, Helms

-Kissinger’s view

-News summary

-Stewart J. O. Alsop article

-John F. Osborne article

-Kissinger’s quote

Kissinger’s press relations

-Oriana Fallaci interviews

New Republic article

-Osborne

-Telephone call

1973 Inauguration

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-Plans

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Edward C. Nixon

Second term reorganization

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

-Conversation with Haldeman and the President

-Timing

-East Wing

-West Wing

George Champion, Jr.

Haldeman left at 12:25 pm.