Date: December 20, 1972

Time: 2:56 pm – 3:05 pm

Location: Oval Office

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

Press relations

-Saul Pett

-Conversation with Haldeman

-Watergate

-Arrest of Cubans

-Meeting with the President

-Photograph session

-Conversation with Haldeman

-Watergate

-Cubans

-Possible meeting with Rose Mary Woods

-The President’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler

-Gerald L. Warren

-Ziegler

White House staff

-Woods

-The President’s role

-Relationship with staff

-Conversation with Ziegler

-Meeting with Pett

-Timing

The President’s schedule

-Meeting with George P. Shultz

-Wage and price policy

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-“End run”

-Haldeman’s meeting with Shultz

-Unknown matter

-Announcement

-Pre-January 1, 1973

Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 2:56 pm.

The President’s schedule

-Meeting with Pett

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm.

The President’s schedule

-Shultz’s view

-Meeting in Key Biscayne

-Photograph session

-White House staff’s schedule

-The President’s conversation with Charles W. Colson

-Colson’s schedule

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

-Wilton B. (“Jerry”) Persons, Sherman Adams, the President as Vice

President

-Work habits

-Heart attack

-Pre-January 1, 1973

-John B. Connally

-Return from trip

-Conversation with Haldeman

-Meetings with Shultz

-Duration

-Photograph sessions

-Second term reorganization

-William D. Ruckelshaus

-James T. Lynn

-Frank C. Carlucci

-Loyalty

-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger

-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III

-Assignment

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(rev. July-08)

1973 Inaugural address

-Length

-Speechwriting staff

-Book about Inaugural addresses

-Speechwriting staff

-Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second Inaugural address

-Theodore Roosevelt’s second Inaugural address

-Quality

-Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s draft

The President’s schedule

-Meeting with Pett

Haldeman left at 3:05 pm.