Date: December 13, 1972

Time: 3:08 pm ­ 3:47 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President met with Anne L. Armstrong and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Greetings

[Photograph session]

-Washington Redskins-Dallas Cowboys game, December 10, 1972

-Result

-Injuries

-Larry Brown

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-Armstrong’s schedule

-Ice storm in Texas

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Republican National Committee [RNC] Chairmanship

-George H. W. Bush

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United Nations [UN]

-George H. W. Bush’s view

-Value

-Hijacking vote, December 12, 1972

-Africa

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-Compared to Republican Party

Bush

-Accomplishments

-Senate and House committees

Robert C. (“Bob”) Wilson

-Decision to rn

-Newspaper reports

-Washington Post, Dallas Morning News

-Daniel H. Kuykendall

-Haldeman’ to follow-up on story

-Gerald R. Ford

Republican candidates

-New Majority

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-Wilson, William E. Brock, III

-Senate

-Bush

-House of Representatives

-Age

-Quality

-Ford

-Clarence J. (“Bud”) Brown, Jr.

-Wilson

Refreshments

Republican candidates

-Wilson

-1968 election

-Bush

-Brown

-Barber B. Conable, Jr.

-Ford

-Kuykendall

-Tennessee

-Bush

-Unified organization

-Research finance

-Republican campaign, committees

-1971 campaign finances

-Robert J. (“Bob”) Dole

-Work during 1972 campaign

-Concentration of resources

-1974 Congressional elections

-State legislatures

-Candidates

-Armstrong

-Speech at Republican Convention

-Democratic Party

-Public attitude

-New Majority

-Tom Flynn [?]

-The President’s outreach

-Maryland, Florida

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-1972 election

-Florida, Texas

-Ethnics

-Divisions

John B. Connally

-Conversations with Armstrong and the President

-Invitation to support the President

-Texas Republican Party

-Leader of Texas politics

-Future with Democrats

-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy

-Robert S. Strauss

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Second term reorganization

-Armstrong

-Chief of Protocol

-Armstrong’s conversation with Haldeman

-Tobin Armstrong’s schedule

-Parties

-Trips

-US image

-Ranch

-Trips

-1973

-Europe

-Number

-Europe

-[Leonid I. Brezhnev’s] trip to the US

-Europe

-February

-Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China [PRC]

-Duration

-Image

-Tobin Armstrong

-Conversation with Dwight L. Chapin

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-State Department

-Bicentennial Commission

-The President’s note

-Chairmanship

-David J. Mahoney, Jr.

-Management

-Communications

-Liaison to state commissions, governors, countries

-Anne Armstrong’s schedule

-Compared to Chief of Protocol

-Tobin Armstrong

-Problems

-Mahoney’s schedule

-Committee

-Management

-Politics

-1972 election

-Congressional relations

-Democrats

-James Roosevelt

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

-Chairmanship

-Women

-Appointment to high positions

-Marriage

-Marina von N. Whitman

-[Robert Whitman]

-University of Pittsburgh

-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]

-Oveta Culp Hobby

-Frances Perkins

-Hobby

-Chief of Protocol

-Ambassadorship

-Symbolism

-Bicentennial Commission

-Co-chairmanship

-Value

-“Sales” ability

-Television [TV]

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-Women

-White House staff

-Cuts

-Barbara H. Franklin

-Recruitment

-Blacks, Jews, women

-Anne Armstrong’s schedule

-Texas

-Bicentennial Commission

-Liaison

-Leonard Garment

-The President’s conversation with Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis

-Liaison with former Presidents

-Special consultancy

-Congressional relations

-Ethnic quotas

-Office location

-Jackson [Place]

-James Biddle

-Compared to Executive Office Building [EOB]

-Purpose

-Role

-Advisor

-Speaker

-Liaison

-Bicentennial Commission

-Republican Party

-Woman

-Role

-Compared to Garment

-Special Consultant or Special Counsel

-Bicentennial Commission

-Other duties

-Women’s groups’ criticism

-Special Consultant

-Possible title

-Special Consultant

-Importance

-Anne Armstrong’s schedule

-Women

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-Point of view

-Franklin’s office

-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]

-Personnel

-Policy

-Virginia H. Knauer

-Consumer Affairs

-Depart of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]

-Office location

-Jackson Place

-Bicentennial Commission

-EOB

-Counselors

-Cabinet

-Bicentennial Commission

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:08 pm.

The President’s schedule

-George P. Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:47 pm.

Second term reorganization

-Armstrong

-Bicentennial Commission

-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

-Concern

-Francis J. (“Frank”) Sinatra

-Chairmanship

-Chairmanship

-Garment

-White House staff

-Need for specific responsibilities

-Charles B. (“Bud”) Wilkinson

-[National Center for Voluntary Action] [NCVA]

-Bryce N. Harlow’s view

-Counselor to the President

-NCVA

-Wilkinson

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-George W. Romney

-Compared to Bicentennial Commission

-Bicentennial Commission

-Possible failure

-Richard M. Nixon era

-Possible failure

-Congress

-States’ responsibility

-Armstrong

-Bicentennial Commission

-Possible failure

-White House staff

-Possible staff

-Office location

-Specific responsibilities

-Announcement

-Bicentennial Commission

-Political meetings

-Bush

The President’s schedule

-Shultz

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Wilson candidacy

-Message to Ford

-The President’s support

-Fundraising

-House Campaign Committee

-Photographs with the President

-Role for women

-1972 campaign

-Dole

-Clark MacGregor

-Committee to Re-elect the President [CRP]

-Lack of women on staff

-Rita E. Hauser

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-Pat Hutar

-Volunteer

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Second term reorganization

-Armstrong

-White House staff

-Politics

-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

-Garment

-Modern art

-Nancy Hanks

-Bicentennial Commission

-Kennedy Center

-Modern architecture and art

-The President’s view

-Henry A. Kissinger

-Garment

-1973 Inauguration

-Reviewing stand

-Weather

-“The Movement”

-Physical appearances, lives

-[Robert H. Bork]

-Solicitor General

-Beard

-Conservatism

-Barry M. Goldwater

-Lifestyle

-The President’s views

-Public opinion

-Ted Cummings

-Hollywood

-Compared to Chief of Protocol

-Image

-Tobin Armstrong

-The President’s travels

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-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon

-Anne Armstrong’s schedule

-New Majority

-Bicentennial Commission

-Anne Armstrong’s relationship with Bush, William E. Brock, III

-Women

-Political meetings

-Fights

-Republican Party

-Constance Armitage of National Federation of

Republican Women

-Groups’ criticism

-AEC

-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.

-Shultz

-Change

-Cabinet

-Supreme Court

-Preparation

-Anne Armstrong’s possible conversation with Haldeman

-Possible title

-Compared to Garment’s title

-Office location

-White House, EOB

-Bicentennial Commission

-Politics

-Special projects

-South

-Recruitment

-South

-Democrats

-Relationship with John E. Tower

-Background

-Texas

-Southern Republicans

-Harry F. Byrd, Jr.

-Linwood Holton’s view

Armstrong and Haldeman left at 3:47 pm.

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