Date: December 19, 1972
Time: Unknown between 2:09 pm and 3:16 pm
Location: Oval Office
Rose Mary Woods met with Stephen B. Bull.
The President’s schedule
-Diplomatic credentials ceremony
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Diplomatic credentials ceremony
Bull left at an unknown time before 2:33 pm.
The President entered at 2:33 pm.
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Weather
-[Washington, DC]
-New York
White House gifts
-Music boxes
-Shipment
-Manufacture
-Songs
-[Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon] [?]
-Edelweiss
-Timing
Unknown person’s memorandum for the President
-Eyes Only
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s [?] announcement
Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker’s letter to the President
-Frederic V. Malek’s recommendations
-Lasker’s telephone call to Woods
-Lasker’s conversation with Donald T. Regan, Gustave L. Levy, John N. Mitchell,
Maurice H. Stans, James T. Needham
-Conrad C. Knudsen of Weyerhaeuser Company
Kissinger entered at 2:38 pm.
Vietnam negotiations
-Xuan Thuy’s press conference
-Tone
Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Possible telephone call from the President
-Meeting with the President
-Trip to the Soviet Union
-Duration
-Michael J. O’Neill of [New York Daily News]
-Bicentennial Commission
-James Keogh
-Possible telephone call
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White House gifts
-Music boxes
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Schedule
-1972 campaign
-Recognition of contributors
-The President’s meeting with Maurice H. Stans
1972 campaign
-Recognition of contributors
-The President’s meeting with Stans
-1968 campaign
-Dinners
-List of names
-List of names
-Clark MacGregor
-The President’s meeting with Stans
-List of names
-Events
-1973 Inauguration
-Dinners
-The President’s role
-List of names
-Timing
-1973 Inauguration
-1968 campaign
Woods left at 2:42 pm.
Vietnam negotiations
-Thuy’s press conference
-Charges
-Effect
-Breakdown of talks
-Transcript
-Accuracy of charges
-US bombing north of 20 Parallel
th
-Effect
-Thuy’s press conference
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-Cancellation of talks
-Announcement
-Kissinger’s schedule
-Meeting with J. William Fulbright
-Fulbright’s statement
-Disappointment
-Congressional relations
-Post-January 20, 1973
-Congressional relations
-Jacob K. Javits’s statement
-Tone
-Fulbright’s statement
-Tone
-The President’s schedule
-Dinner party
-1972 election
-Victory percentage
-US-North Vietnam bilateral deal
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 2:42 pm.
Tricia Nixon Cox’s schedule
-Telephone call
-Timing
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 2:42 pm.
Tricia Nixon Cox’s schedule
-Return call
-Timing
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 2:45 pm.
Vietnam negotiations
-Fulbright
-Circumspection
-Thuy
-Instructions
-Fulbright
-Thuy
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-Instructions
-Press conference
-Breakdown
-Technical talks
-Avenue Kleber
-Le Duc Tho and Kissinger
-Proposal
-Statements
-Thuy’s press conference
-Charges
-Accuracy of charges
-Effect
-North Vietnam’s credibility
-US response
-Fulbright
-Congressional relations
-First term
-Circumspection
-Telephone call to John A. Scali
-US bombing north of 20 Parallel
th
-Meeting with Kissinger
-Lunch
-Douglas Kiker of National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-Fulbright’s response to questions
-Review of world situation
-Congressional relations
-Javits
-Circumspection
-1972 election
-[Arkansas] victory percentage
-1974 election
-Breakdown
-US actions
-Press relations
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] leaks
-Peking
-Kissinger
-Alleged split in administration
-Le Monde
-North Vietnam
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-South Vietnam
-Nguyen Van Thieu
An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 2:50 pm.
The President’s schedule
Vietnam negotiations
-Thuy’s press conference
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with business leaders, [Productivity Commission]
-Meeting with labor leaders
-Meeting with business leaders
-Cancellation
Vietnam negotiations
-Thuy’s recent press conference
-Tone
-US bombing north of 20 Parallel
th
-US bombing north of 20 Parallel
th
-Radio Hanoi
-B-52s
-Number
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
-Lack of losses, casualties
-Effect
-Hanoi
-Fires
-Windows
Kissinger left at 2:50 pm.
Woods
-Mood
-Cabinet dinner
-Reception for 1972 campaign surrogates and workers
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker’s letter to the President
Second term reorganization
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-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]
-Lasker’s letter to the President
-Frederic V. Malek’s recommendations
-G. Bradford Cook
-George B. Cook
Jack F. Bennett’s [?] memorandum for the President
-Woods
-Letter to Bennett [?]
Woods
-Dedication of Elmer H. Bobst Library
-The President’s schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule
-Second term reorganization
-Women [Anne L. Armstrong]
-Patricia R. Hitt
-Californians
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Claude S. Brinegar
-Robert J. Hitt
The President’s schedule
-Telephone calls
-Meeting with Productivity Commission
-Haldeman’s conversation with the President
-Meeting with labor leaders
-George P. Shultz
-Photograph opportunity
-Diplomatic credentials ceremony
-Talking points from Shultz
-Wage and price controls
-Edward W. Carter
-Necessity
-Meeting with labor leaders
Second term reorganization
-Woods
-Joseph Woods
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Rose Mary Woods’s schedule
-Marjorie P. Acker
1972 campaign
-Reorganization of contributors
-List of names
-Stans
-The President’s conversation with Rose Mary Woods
-The President’s conversation with Rose Mary Woods
-MacGregor, Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Invitations
-Woods
-MacGregor-Magruder group
-Blair House
-Charles W. Colson’s groups
-Guests
-Number
-Stans
-New Majority
-Role
Haldeman’s schedule
-Meeting with Colson
-Labor leaders
-Second term reorganization
-Mickey Gardner
-John B. Connally
-Democratic affiliation
Second term reorganization
-SEC
-Lasker’s letter to the President
-Response
-Possible telephone call from Rose Mary Woods
-Malek
-Bradford Cook
-George Cook
-Internship
-Armstrong
-Rose Mary Woods
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-Armstrong’s conversation with Haldeman
-Barbara H. Franklin
-Performance
-Patricia Hitt
-Hitt
-Performance
-1972 campaign
-Speeches
-Personal qualities
-Toughness
-Public speaking
-Intelligence
-Public speaking
-Armstrong’s toast
-Hitt
-Retention
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Robert Hitt
The President’s schedule
-Shultz
-Meeting with Haldeman and Ehrlichman
Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Meetings
Second term reorganization
-SEC
-Lasker
-Response
-Possible telephone call from Haldeman
-Possible telephone call from Malek
-Recommendations
-Bradford Cook
-George Cook
-Nebraska
Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:53 pm.
The President’s schedule
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-Present meeting
-Duration
Bull left at an unknown time before 3:16 pm.
Second term reorganization
-SEC
-Lasker
-Letter to the President
-Rose Mary Woods’s view
-Malek’s recommendations
-Wall Street brokers
-Sam Butler
-Colson’s view
-Vietnam War
-Signature of newspaper advertisements [ads]
-Discovery
-Timing
-Conrad C. Knudsen
-New York and Washington, DC establishments
-Western background
-Bradford Cook
-Nebraska
-George Cook
-Malek’s recommendations
-Process
-Politics
-Haldeman’s meeting with Colson
-Butler
-Identity
-Lawyer, Cravath, Swaine & Moose
-Opposition to the administration
-Recommendation
-Mitchell
-Vietnam War
-Support for the administration
-Vietnam War
Signature of newspaper ads
-Unknown person
-Colson’s view
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-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-William J. Casey
-Butler
-Miles W. Kirkpatrick
-Civil Aeronautics Board [CAB]
-[Charles F. Butler] [?]
-Regulations
-Robert D. Timm
-Support
-Connally
-Airlines
-Charles Butler [?]
-Compared to Kirkpatrick
-Rose Mary Woods
-Relationship with White House staff
-Butterfield
-Departure
-Bull
-Schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s invitation
-The President’s schedule
-Joseph Woods
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Work on 1972 campaign
-Work on appointments
-Camp David
-Typing, telephone calls
-Note in typewriter
-The President’s schedule
-Letters
-1972 campaign
-Follow-up
White House staff
-Vacations
Marjorie P. Acker
-Work
-Telephone calls, letters
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Rose Mary Woods’s schedule
-Possible trip to Florida
-Vacation
-The President’s schedule
-Chicago
-Ohio
-Work
The President’s schedule
-Meeting with Productivity Commission
-Cancellation
-Diplomatic credentials ceremony
Haldeman left at 3:16 pm.
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