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

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-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

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-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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