Secret White House Tapes

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822–5
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald H. Walker
  • Dwight L. Chapin
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • White House photographer
December 13, 1972
Conversation No. 822-5

Date: December 13, 1972
Time: 2:57 pm – 3:07 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald H. Walker and Dwight L. Chapin. Stephen B. Bull and White
House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.

Greetings

[Photograph session]
-Confirmation

National Park Service [NPS]
-Pork barrel programs
-Property
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Coco Lobo
-Administration officials
-Members of Congress
-Cuts
-General public
-Members of Congress
-John P. Saylor
-Alan Bible
-George Hartzog
-General public
-Members of Congress
-Special privileges
-Review
-General public
-Congressional relations
-Lowell P. Weicker, Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Private use
-Special privileges
-Compared to Defense Department
-General public
-Public relations [PR]
-Parks program
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-08)

Conversation No. 822-5 (cont’d)

-Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox, Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Dedications
-Claudia A. (Taylor) (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Beautification project
-Press relations
-Hartzog
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Morris K. Udall
-John F. Kennedy
-Departure
-Law firm
-Washington, DC
-Press relations
-Publications
-State conservation and park organizations
-Walker’s visit to NPS
-Hartzog
-Absence of the President’s portrait
-Nathaniel P. Reed
-Reed
-Interior Department
-Promotion of the administration
-Kennedy
-Lyndon Johnson
-Cabinet
-Staff
-Property
-Use by Congressmen
-Coco Lobo
-Staff
-Conversion
-Coco Lobo
-John C. Whitaker
-Rebozo
-Preservation
-Staff
-Boy Scouts of America
-Personnel
-Promotions
-Young people
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. June-08)

Conversation No. 822-5 (cont’d)

-Loyalists
-Congressional relations
-Hartzog
-Law firm

1972 campaign
-Advance work
-Surrogates
-Ontario, California [November 4, 1972]

NPS
-Property
-Cuts
-Staff
-Privileges
-General public
-Compared to elite, numbers of Congressional committees
-Compared to 1972 campaign
-Advance work
-Ontario

Walker and Chapin left at 3:07 pm.
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