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.]