Date: December 14, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:05 pm and 1:25 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Hugh Scott
Haldeman’s schedule
-Conversation with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
The President’s schedule
-Diplomatic credentials presentation
-Meetings with doctors
-Physical examination
-Eyes, ears
The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
[Conversation No. 823-12A]
[See Conversation No. 34-76]
[End of telephone conversation]
Second term reorganization
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Telephone calls to and from Haldeman
-Mrs. Nixon’s conversation with Haldeman
-Haldeman’s conversations with Ronald L. Ziegler and the President
-Haldeman’s conversation with Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”)
Stuart
-Stuart’s departure
-Mrs. Nixon’s management role
-1972 campaign
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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-Tricia Nixon Cox’s and Julie Nixon
Eisenhower’s schedules
-Changes
-West Wing
-Tone
-Stuart’s possible reaction
-Timing
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-East Wing
-Research and speechwriting staff
-Noel C. Koch
-David R. Gergen
-Assignments to government departments
-Counsellors
-Interior Department
-White House
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s view
-Editor
-Price
-Offices
-Location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Communications
-Teletype
-William L. Safire
-State Department
-Assistant Secretary for public affairs
-William P. Rogers’s suggestion
-Conversation with Rogers
-Possible book
-William B. Macomber, Jr.
-Ambassadorship to Turkey
-Rogers’s suggestion
-Loyalty
-William J. Handley
-Safire
-Possible job at State Department
-Loyalty
-Programs
-Possible book
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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-State Department
-First term
-Cut off
-1972 election
-1972
-Possible title
-The President’s trips to the People’s Republic of China
[PRC] and the Soviet Union; the President’s May 8, 1972
decision; 1972 election
-Price
-Role
-Philosopher
-Speechwriter for the President
-The President’s role
-Letter writers
-Eliska A. Hasek
-Ann Olsten [?]
-Children
-Hasek
-Tom Johnson
-Public relations [PR]
-Charles S. Snider
-Reception for 1972 election supporters
-George C. Wallace
-Physical appearance
-Ability
-Politics
-Michigan
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Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s view
-Attendees
Republicans
-Types
-Attitudes
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-Californians
-Dick Andrews
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Congressional relations
-George S. McGovern
-Senate Foreign Relations Committee
-The President’s conversation with Scott
-Vietnam War
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Reception for 1972 election supporters
-Charles W. Colson
-George P. Shultz
-James D. Hodgson
The President’s schedule
-Democratic leaders
-List
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The President’s schedule
-Christmas telephone calls
-List
-1973 Inauguration
-W. Clement Stone
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Legislative leaders
-House of Representatives
-Barry M. Goldwater
-[1964 campaign]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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-Wallace F. Bennett
-Republicans
-Democrats
-Second term reorganization
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Alexander P. Butterfield, Stephen B. Bull
-Rose Mary Woods
-Invitations to dinner
-Mrs. Nixon
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Mrs. Nixon
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Previous practice
-Memoranda
-West Wing
-Telephone calls
Second term reorganization
-Anne L. Armstrong
-Conversation with her family
-Meeting with Haldeman
-Location
-Washington, DC
-Possible conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Possible decision
-Schedule
-Possible duties
-Missing in action [MIAs]
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Settlement agreement
-US combing of North Vietnam
-Duration
-Meetings with families
-The President’s schedule
Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s meeting with Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s possible television [TV] appearance
Second term reorganization
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-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-East Wing
-State Department
-Kissinger
-[(David)] Kenneth Rush
-[Defense Department]
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Melvin R. Laird
-George W. Romney
-Claude S. Brinegar
-Congressional relations
-Relations with governors
-John D. Ehrlichman’s meeting with Linwood Holton
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Holton
-Relations with governors
-Meetings with Republican governors
-Frequency
-1973 Inauguration
-Reception
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Entertainment
-1973 Inauguration
-Balls
-Number
-Location
-John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
-Compared to hotels
-Smithsonian Institution
-Compared to hotels
1973 Inauguration
-Speech
-Price’s role
-Peace theme
-Vietnam negotiations
-US bombing of North Vietnam
-Duration
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
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-S. Bruce Herschensohn’s draft
-Drafts
-The President’s schedule
-Florida
-Previous State of the Union address
-Length
-Previous second addresses
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Herschensohn, Price
Second term reorganization
-Price
-Role
-Philosopher
-Political orientation
-Ehrlichman
-Speeches
-Tone
-Appeal
1973 Inauguration
-Speech
-Safire
-Length
-Aram Bakshian
-Length
-Previous second addresses
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congressional relations
-[State of the Union address]
-Vietnam negotiations
-US military action
Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s meeting with Kissinger
-US military action
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-Duration
-Settlement agreement
-Possible offer
-POWs for US withdrawal and cessation of bombing
-US aid to South Vietnam
-Communist aid to North Vietnam
-Congressional relations
-Scott
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-Mansfield Amendment
-US withdrawal
-Timing
-POWs
-Compared to McGovern amendment
-US withdrawal
-Timing
-1973 Inauguration
-Possible offer
-US withdrawal and cessation of bombing
-Timing
-POWs
-Timing
-Vietnamization
-POWs for US withdrawal
-Congressional relations
-“Doves”
-US withdrawal and cessation of bombing
-POWs
-“Hawks”
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Vietnamization
-Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-US military and economic aid
-October 1972 Vietnamization
-Kissinger’s efforts
-North Vietnam’s tactics
-The President’s conversation with Kissinger
-North Vietnam’s tactics
-Congressional relations
-Cut off of US aid
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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-Press relations
-Professors
-Press relations
-Kissinger’s press relations
-John F. Osborne
-Haldeman’s conversation with Kissinger
-Haig
Haldeman left at 1:25 pm.