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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Tape Subject Log
(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.