Conversation: 398-001
Prev: 397-025 Next: 398-002Start Date: Friday, January 19, 1973 8:07 PM
End Date: Friday, January 19, 1973 9:10 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Price, Raymond K., Jr.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
NARA Description:
On January 19, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Raymond K. Price, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:07 pm and 4:10 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 398-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 397-25/398-1
Date: January 19, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:07 pm and 4:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Raymond K. Price, Jr.; the recording began at an unknown time while
the meeting was in progress.
[An unknown portion of the conversation was not recorded at this time while the tape was
changed.]
President's Inaugural speech
-Content and wording
-Revisions
-Last paragraph
-Sense of responsibility
-Public understanding
-Omitted lines [?]
-President’s suggestions
-Overlong sentence
-Government's role
-Quotability
-First paragraph
-Conclusion
-1969 Inaugural speech
-Text
-Reading copies
-Price’s suggestions
-Revisions
-Hallowing references
-Previous presidents
-Reliance references
-Appeal to deity
-Appeal to American people
-Future of US
-Typing of draft
-Length
-2-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan.-09)
Conversation No. 397-25/398-1 (cont’d)
-John F. Kennedy
-Central theme
-Sense of responsibility
-President’s views [?]
-Revisions
-Length
-Final draft
-Delivery
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Hugh Scott
Price left at 4:10 pm.