Date: January 22, 1973
Time: Between 11:01 am and 1:20 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President’s second term
1973 Inauguration
-Church service
-Relatives
-Inaugural address
-White House staff follow-up
Grand Jury
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Back taxes
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 11:03 am.
Washington Post story
-Source
-White House rebuttal
-United Press International [UPI]
-Press briefing
-The President’s instructions
Press relations
-Henry A. Kissinger
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-Church service
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-The President’s telephone conversations
-Church service
-Kissinger
-Vietnam settlement
-Signing
-Nguyen Van Thieu
-Herbert G. Klein
-Charles W. Colson
-Washington Post
-Kenneth W. Clawson
Ziegler left at 11:11 am.
Church service
-Choir
-Washington Post
1973 Inauguration
-Inaugural ball
-Television [TV] coverage
-Public Broadcasting System [PBS]
-The President’s arrival
-Spiro T. Agnew
Press relations
-The President’s image
-Reaction
-Youth Ball
-New York
-Ziegler
-Vietnam War
-Response
-Washington Post
-Confirmation
-First term compared to second term
-Second term goals
-Welfare
-William E. Brock, III
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-Seating arrangements
-The President’s order
-Reception [?]
-Themla C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Stephen B. Bull [?]
Congressional relations
Church service [?]
White House entertainment
-Impresario
-Leonard Garment
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Selection
-George Murphy
-1972 campaign
-Sammy Davis, Jr.
-Celebrities
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra
-Inaugural event
-A cocktail party
-Sinatra
-Davis
-Sinatra
-Ball [?]
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-TV
-Check by the President
-Washington parties [?]
-Vietnam settlement [?]
-Press relations
-News summaries
-The President’s image
-TV
1973 Inauguration
-Parade
-Ball
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-Press Coverage
-Parade incident
-The President’s car
-Protestor
-Legal charges
-Crowd size [?]
-Security
-TV
Press relations
-Kissinger [?]
-White House staff
-Editorial comment
-Newspapers
-Vietnam settlement
-Haig trip [?]
-Possible book by The President
-Colson
-Staff writers
Celebrities
-Blacks
Lyndon B. Johnson’s Funeral
-Washington National Cathedral
-Claudia A. (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
The President’s speeches
-Staff work
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Rose Mary Woods
-Price
-Proofing
-Typist
-Ziegler
-Manolo Sanchez
-Adjustments
Church service
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-Choirs
-Edward V. Hill [?]
-Colson
-District of Columbia
-Rhode Island
-Delaware
-Virginia
-Maryland
Collaboration with [first name unknown] Lott
-Collection of speeches
-Publicity
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
1973 Inauguration
-Acknowledgement for participants
-Special plan [?]
-Follow-up
-Unknown woman
-Floral seal
-Remaining money
-Use
-Inaugural address
The President’s schedule
-Eisaku Sato
-Bipartisan Congressional leaders meeting
-Republican leaders meeting
-Sato
-Dinner
-Donald McI. Kendall
Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President between 12:10 pm and 12:12 pm.
[Conversation No. 399-14A]
[See Conversation No. 36-40]
[End of telephone conversation]
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1973 Inauguration
-Number of invitations
-Remaining money
-Use
The President’s schedule
-Sato
-Next week
-Dinner
-Roger Williams
-Camp David
-Cabinet members
The President’s statements
-Buchanan
The President’s schedule
-Congressional leaders meeting
-The President’s speech
-Contents
-World War II
-History
-Vietnam settlement
Vietnam settlement
-Article
-Circulation
-Colson’s office
-South Vietnam
-Communist rule
-“Peace with honor”
“Peace with honor”
-The President’s meeting with Raymond K. Price
-Edward M (“Ted”) Kennedy, Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-George McGovern
-Policy on Vietnam
-Presidential adversaries
-Congressional relations
-Presidential gesture
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-1972 election
-Lyndon Johnson
-Public support for the President
-Silent majority
-Democrats
-Republicans
-Congressional relations
-Kissinger [?]
-History of war
-John D. Ehrlichman [?]
-Ziegler [?]
-McGovern [?]
-Announcement
-TV
-Democrats
-Republicans
-Buchanan
-The President’s speeches
-Prisoners Of War [POWs] return
-H. Ross Perot
-The President’s role
-Guam, Hawaii
-POW families
-Lyndon Johnson
-Haig [?]
-Kissinger [?]
-1973 Inauguration [?]
-Fundraising
-Cutbacks
Vietnam settlement
-Congressional relations
-Kissinger
-The President’s speech
-Audience
-Buchanan
-Lyndon Johnson
-Congress
-American people, servicemen
-Price
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-Inaugural address
-Patriotism
-Education
-TV
-Press relations
-Morning newspaper
-The President’s speech
-National audience
-Price
Congressional relations
-Buchanan
The President’s schedule
-Sato
-Heath
-Sato
-Dinner
-Meeting with the President
-George H.W. Bush
-Congressional relations
-Republican National Committee [RNC]
-Meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders
Vietnam settlement
-The President’s speech
-Nixon doctrine
-Theme of responsibility
-Cambodia
-Bombing
Unknown man
-Wife
Colson
-Buchanan
John A. Scali
Bipartisan Congressional leaders meeting [?]
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-The President’s schedule
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Senate spokesman
-Klein [?]
-Press relations
-Dick Olsen [?]
-Attendance
-Chairmen
Haldeman left at 1:20 pm.