Date: December 12, 1972
Time: Unknown between 9:50 am and 9:57 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown person.
Instruction to leave item
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:57 am.
Date: December 12, 1972
Time: 3:38 pm – 6:10 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Gordon C. Strachan and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Greetings
Second term reorganization
-Strachan
-Attire
-US Information Agency [USIA]
-Frank J. Shakespeare
-Opponents of administration
-Age
-Background
-University of California
-Bolt Hall
-Hastings
-Graduation, 1968
-Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander
-The President’s appreciation for work as political contact
-Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander
-Law firms
-Loyalists
-USIA
-Loyalists
-James Keogh
-Loyalists
-Bureaucracy
-Influences
-Love
-Respect
-Fear
-Hate
-Blackmail
-Administrators
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
-Need
-Brains
-Legal profession and social sciences
-Private enterprise
-Conservatives
-Republicans, Democrats
-Government, media
-Liberals
-Democrats
-Daily Princetonian
-Washington Post
-Government
-Private enterprise system
-Strachan’s career
-Government
-Compared to private law practice, corporate position
-USIA
-State Department
Zosimo T. Monson [?] entered at an unknown time after 3:38 pm.
Refreshment
Monson [?] left at an unknown time before 3:58 pm.
Second term reorganization
-USIA bureaucracy
-Shakespeare’s efforts
-Foreign Service Information Officers [FSIO]
-Details
-[Alan Carter]
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-1968 campaign
-Return to agency
-Timing
-Public Area Officer [PAO]
-Tokyo
-Area directors
-Shakespeare
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. May-08)
-Charles D. Ablard
-Loyalists
-Kempton B. Jenkins
-Soviet Union, Eastern Europe
-Carter
-Tokyo
-W. Bruce Herschensohn
-Think tank
-Herschensohn
-Think tank
-Keogh’s possible conversation with the President
-Keogh’s possible conversation with Herschensohn
-Shakespeare
-Haldeman
-Keogh
-Loyalty
-Social affairs
-Shopping
-Tokyo
-British shop
-Strachan’s experience
-White House
-Herbert G. Klein
-Haldeman
-Trust
-Wearing of flag lapel pin
-Portraits
-John F. Kennedy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
[This recording was cut off at an unknown time before 3:58 pm.]