Date: January 3, 1973
Time: Unknown between 5:09 pm and 6:17 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Stock market report
Vietnam negotiations
-The President’s meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
-Kissinger’s mood
-Vacillation
-Compared to the President
-Obsession
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Refreshments
-Coffee
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Rose Mary Woods
-Attitude
-Dr. Walter R. Tkach
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 5:11 pm.
Press conferences
-Kissinger meetings
-Camp David
-Pittsburgh Pirates players
-Roberto W. Clemente memorial fund
-Truck driver [Curtis C. Stapp]
-Stephen B. Bull
-Ziegler’s announcement
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Ambassador to France
-Clemente memorial fund
-The President’s suggestion for fundraising
-Super Bowl advertisements
-Number
-Questions
-1973 Inauguration
-Congressional relations
-Vietnam War resolutions
-Republicans
-Wire services
-Public opinion
-Gerald R. Ford
-Ziegler’s return
-Jim Deakin
-Gerald L. Warren
-Meetings with the President
-William P. Rogers
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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Ziegler left at 5:18 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Richard A. Moore
-Clemente memorial fund
-Charles W. Colson
-Press relations
-The President’s contribution
-Carl B. Albert
-Importance
-Clemente memorial fund
-Truck driver [Stapp]
-Congressional relations
-J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.
-Louisiana
-Bull
-George Allen
-Turkey raiser
-Maid of Cotton
-Teacher of the year
-Poster child
-Blind Indian
-Sculptor
-Johnston
-Relationship of each event to job of the President
-Purpose
-Frequency
-Political objectives
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Refreshment
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The President’s schedule
-Political objectives
-New Majority
-Functioning of presidency
-Change of political system
-Congressional victories
-Future presidential victories
-Democrats
-Nixon Coalition
-Franklin D. Roosevelt Coalition
-Dwight D. Eisenhower Cult
-Legacy of ideas
-Institutionalization
-Roosevelt’s legacy
-Harry S. Truman
-Eisenhower “hiatus”
-John F. Kennedy
-Roosevelt Coalition
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Roosevelt Coalition
-Welfare state
-Collapse
-Stapp
-Johnston
-Louisiana
-Allen
-Clemente memorial fund
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-Public schedules
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Kissinger
-Haldeman
-Allen’s comments
-Truman’s work habits
-Key West
-Poker
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-Loud shirts
-Walks
-Public perception of the President’s work habits
-Golf
-Cards
-Key Biscayne
-Eisenhower
-Golf
-Heart attack
-Kennedy
-Johnson
-Compared to John B. Connally
-The President’s lack of relaxation
Second term goals
-Planning
-Ehrlichman
-Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Evaluation of first term
-Domestic Council paper
-Accomplishments
-Public perception
-Foreign affairs
-Vietnam
-Peoples Republic of China [PRC]
-Soviet Union
-Domestic affairs
-“New Economic Policy”
-The President’s August 15, 1971 speech
-Smithsonian agreement
-Trade successes
-Revenue sharing
-Crime rate
-Drug rate
-Destruction of old establishment
-Colson
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Thomas Girard [?]
-New establishment
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-Intellectuals
-Press
-Bombing of North Vietnam
-“Christmas bombing”
-Kissinger
-Richard (“Dick”) Wilson
-Roscoe Drummond
-Compared to Korean War
-Eisenhower
-Truman
-Eisenhower
-Bombing of North Korea
-Dikes
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Charles H. Percy
-Spiro T. Agnew
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1976 presidential election
-Percy
-Kissinger
-Motivation
-Strategy for administration
-1968 support of Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Call to the President
-Raymond Shafer
-Statements to John N. Mitchell
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-Usefulness
-Agnew
-Weakness
-Complaints
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Second term goals
-Destruction of Old Establishment
-New Establishment
-James R. Schlesinger’s recommendations
-Higher education subsidies
-National Programs in Science
-Dr. Edward E. David, Jr.
-Structure of National Security Council [NSC] documents
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]
-Funding from Defense Department
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Melvin R. Laird
-[David] Kenneth Rush
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-George P. Shultz
-US Sweden relations
-Treasury Department
-Customs Service
-Trade restrictions
-Automobiles
Second term reorganization
-Schlesinger’s conversation with Haldeman
-Memorandum to Ehrlichman
-Follow-through
-Meeting of Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Kissinger
-Security
-Kissinger
-Congress
-Schlesinger
-Elliott L. Richardson
-William P. Clements, Jr.
-Department of Defense
-Compared to Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Schlesinger
-Congress
-Kissinger
-Reorganization of military
-Reorganization of intelligence
-Schlesinger
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-Shultz
-Kissinger
-Dixy Lee Ray
-Atomic Energy Commission [AEC]
-Problems
-Bureaucracy
-Chet Holifield
-Appointments of women
-Women as managers
-Ambassador appointments
-Rogers’s forthcoming meeting with the President
-State Department input
-Richardson
-Meeting with the President
-The President’s speech
-The President’s schedule
-Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff [JCS]
-Clements
-Understanding of duties
-Kissinger
-Meetings on Vietnam negotiations
-Confirmation testimony
-Meeting with the President
-Officials of State Department
-William J. Casey
-Rush
-Meeting with the President
-NSC, Cabinet
-Kissinger
-Daniel Parker
-Agency for International Development [AID]
-Harvard graduates
-Business School
-Milton College
-Wisconsin
-Law School
-United Nations, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
[UNESCO]
-Louise Gore
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
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-Gordon L. Allott
-Regulatory commission
-Ambassadorship
-Jack R. Miller
-Appellate Court
-District Court
-8 Circuit
th
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Secretary of Air Force
-Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] Chairman
-Postal Rate Commission
-Appellate Court
-G. Bradford Cook
-George Cook’s son
-SEC Chairman
-Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker’s letter
-Hamer H. Budge
-Albert H. Quie
-Indianapolis
-Miller and Allott
-Bradford Cook
-Casey
-Concerns
-[First name unknown] Knutson
-Frederick V. Malek
The President’s schedule
-Frequency of meetings
-Truck driver
-Donald F. Rodgers, Colson
-Harvard lawyers
-Black militants
-Truck drivers
-Irish-Americans
-Italian-American
-Athletes
-Clemente memorial fund group
-Allen
-Arts people
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1973 Inauguration
-Inaugural concerts
-National Symphony
-Discussion of program
-Eugene Ormandy
-1812 Overture
-Valley Forge Band
-Roger Wagner Chorale
-Ormandy
-Antal Dorati
-Assessment of orchestras
-Philadelphia Orchestra
-Los Angeles Orchestra
-National Symphony
-Types
-American pop concert
-Youth concert
-Symphony concert
-The President’s attendance
-Agnew
-The President’s scheduled appearances
-Youth concert
-Dorati
-Ormandy
-Van Cliburn
-Los Angeles Chorale
-Valley Forge Military Band
-“1812” Overture
-Cliburn
-William Blair [?]
-Lloyd N. Cutler [?]
-David L. Kreeger
-George S. McGovern donor
-Ormandy
-The President’s preferences
-Public support of symphonies
-Effect of the President’s appearance
-Eisenhower’s appearance
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-Parade
-Tone
-Dress
-US flag
Public relations [PR]
-The President’s public reception
-Attendance at funerals of Truman and Eisenhower
-Outside of Washington, DC
-Press relations
-Press conference format
-Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
-Interviews with the President in Oval Office
-Dan Rather
-Effect
-Effect of presidential appearances
-Travel around country
-New York
-Vietnam settlement
-Youth
-Washington, DC
-POW wives
-Washington Press Corps
-Prayer breakfast
-TV coverage
-Outside of Washington
-The President’s speeches
-Des Moines
-Length
-Raymond K. Price, Jr. [?]
-1973 Inaugural speech
Haldeman left at 6:17 pm.