Secret White House Tapes

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659–10
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Rose Mary Woods
  • Stephen B. Bull
January 28, 1972
Conversation No. 659-10
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)




Date: January 28, 1972
Time: 2:24 pm - 2:51 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

White House dinner for DeWitt and Lila (Acheson) Wallace, January 28, 1972
-John B. and Idanell B. (“Nellie”) Connally’s attendance
-Illness of invitees
-John Connally
-Influenza
-Elmer H. Bobst
-Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser
-Wife
-Cancellation call from Nellie Connally
-Attendance

Robert P. Griffin
-Letter
-Photograph

Influenza

Room temperature
-The President’s request of Manolo Sanchez

Dinner for Wallaces
-Seating arrangements
-Laurance S. and Mary Rockefeller
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Charles A. and Anne (Morrow) Lindbergh
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Celebrity status
-Lucy A. Winchester
-Nellie Connally
-The President’s preference
-Mary Rockefeller
-Lila Wallace
-Placement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 659-10 (cont.)


-Congressional attendance
-William F. (“Billy”) Graham
-Norman Vincent Peale
-Lionel Hampton
-Mrs. Nixon
-Stephen W. Royce
-Charles and Anne Lindbergh
-Fred MacMurray
-Allison DeWitt
-Katharine Rollins
-Mrs. John A. Mulcahy
-Harold H. Helm
-G. Keith Funston
-Thomas A. Pappas
-W. Allen Wallis
-George Champion
-Attitude toward the President
-Mrs. Nixon
-Economics
-Funston
-Olin-Mathieson Chemical Corporation
-Martin S. Hayden, Sr.
-Laurance Rockefeller
-Previous invitation
-[Richard G. Lugar]
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
-Woods’s attendance
-Late arrival
-Mrs. Lila Tyng
-Henry R. Luce
-Wife
-Hank Luce
-Lewis
-Winchester
-Hope
-Nellie Connally
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 659-10 (cont.)


The President’s schedule
-Camp David
-Weather
-Reading

Woods’s schedule
-Renwick Gallery opening
-Restoration
-Warren E. Burger
-Woods’s conversation with John A. Volpe
-Volpe’s son’s [Jack’s] health
-Possible call from the President to Jack Volpe

Dinner lists
-Burger
-Popularity
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Charles W. Colson
-Unknown person
-Repetition
-Need for new faces
-MacMurray
-June Haver
-Taft Schreiber

Letter from Maurice H. Stans

Equal Rights Amendment [ERA]
-John D. Ehrlichman’s memorandum
-Mitchell’s view

Unemployment
-John B. Connally’s letter
-Price Commission
-Donald H. Rumsfeld

Campaign financing
-Howard Simon
-Request for meeting with the President
-Contribution
-Maurice H. Stans
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 659-10 (cont.)


-Location
-Stans, Herbert W. Kalmbach
-Fundraising

The President’s schedule
-California

[Fund-raising campaign for athletic hall of fame at Whittier College]
-Use of President’s name
-Letter from Kenneth L. Ball
-Clinton Harris
-Response

Letter from Richard M. Helms
-The President’s Vietnam peace proposal speech, January 25, 1972

Letter from L. Richard Guylay
-New York

Letter from I. Irving Davidson
-Indonesia lobby
-Meeting with George Meany on airplane

Letter from [unknown person]
-European Community
-Henry A. Kissinger

Office procedure
-Mail
-Reading
-Possible contact

Dinner party
-Late invitations
-Haldeman
-Tayloe House
-Wallaces
-Reception
-Entertainment
-Mrs. Nixon
-Television
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 659-10 (cont.)


-Seating
-Arrangement
-Winchester
-Longworth
-Mrs. Nixon
-Hayden
-Laurance Rockefeller
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Lugar
-Royce
-Hampton
-Charles Lindbergh
-Andre Kostelanetz
-Mulcahy
-Rollins
-Pappas
-Conversation
-Lindbergh
-Longworth
-Wallaces
-Laurance Rockefeller
-Hayden
-Funston
-Howard A. Rusk
-Peter Mennin
-The Julliard School
-Charles Lindbergh
-Rusk
-Laurance Rockefeller
-Mrs. Rollins
-Mrs. Mulcahy
-Delores (Reade) Hope
-Louise Seymour
-J. Walter Thompson Company
-Mrs. James A. Suffridge
-Mrs. Tyng

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:24 pm.

Kissinger’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 659-10 (cont.)



Bull left at an unknown time before 2:51 pm.

Dinner party
-Guests
-Women
-Mrs. Nixon
-Ehrlichman
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Letters

Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:24 pm.

Kissinger’s schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 2:51 pm.

Letters

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Edward M. Kennedy

Dinner party
-Guests

Woods left at 2:51 pm.
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