RICHARD NIXON TAPES: A Shy President 1 (Bob Haldeman) 

Part 1
H. R. (Bob) Haldeman
September 12, 1971
008-103
White House Telephone
President Richard Nixon talks with his Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman. In the first part of the conversation, after initially discussing a TV show about Nixon's wife Pat Nixon, the two men talk about Nixon's military aides. Nixon wants one military aide that he is totally comfortable around. He wants to work with someone he already knows because, he says, "it takes me a hell of a long time to get acquainted with anybody, to get used to them." One of the men he discusses is Jack Brennan, a key character in the new movie Frost/Nixon. He especially likes one aide named Coffey, because he is "extremely easy" on Nixon to be around and he knows "how to melt into the woodwork."
They also discuss the duties of Nixon's personal secretary and friend, Rose Mary Woods, who was then signing his autograph for him. Nixon praises the new secretary Nell Yates, and he also suggests that Woods' secretary Marje Acker could take over some of Woods speech typing duties.
(Photo: President Richard Nixon in his Executive Office Building (EOB) Office with photographs of his daughters behind him.)
(NARA censors beeped out some of this conversation as "personal returnable." This is represented here by approximately 5 second beeps.)
You can hear the second part of this conversation here: • RICHARD NIXON TAPES: A...