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    "ocrText": "Richard Nixon Presidential Library\nContested Materials Collection\nFolder List\nBox Number\nFolder Number\nDocument Date\nNo Date\nSubject\nDocument Type\nDocument Description\n50\n2\n2/5/1969\nPersonal\nMemo\nFrom RN to Mrs. Nixon RE: Interior\ndecoration instructions regarding RN's\nExecutive Office Building office. 1pg. 2\ncopies.\nThursday, May 31, 2012\nPage 1 of 1\nDOCUMENT WITHDRAWAL RECORD [NIXON PROJECT]\nDOCUMENT\nDOCUMENT\nNUMBER\nTYPE\nSUBJECT/TITLE OR CORRESPONDENTS\nDATE\nRESTRICTION\nN-1\nMemo\nRN to JDE, Re: News summaries\n2/4/69\nC(NIXON)\n[8]\nN-2\nMemo\nRN to Mrs. NIXON, Re: EOB decorations\n2/5/69\nC(NIXON)\n[9]\nN-3\nMemo\nRN to JDE, Re: need to rebat a press\n2/5/69\nC(NIXIN)\n[10]\ntheme\nN-4\nRN to J -DE, Re: Mrs. RN'S Schedule\n2/5/69\nC(NIXCR)\nMemo\n[II]\nN-5\nMemo\nRN to Harlow, JDE, Re: Harding\nin OEC\n2/5/69\nC(NIXON)\n[12]\nmemo\nRN to \"The attorney General\", Re:\nN-6\n2/13/69\nC(NIXON)\n[13]\nBerger's pelief\nN-1\nmemo\nRN to Kissinger, Re talk with Linen\n2/14/69\nC(NIXON)\n[14]\nRe. conversation with comand\nmemo\nCopy of Pir N-1\n2/4/69\nC(NIXON)\nN-8\n[8]\n2/5/69\nC(NIXON)\nN-9\nnemo\ncopy of N-2\n[9]\nCopy of N-3\n2/5/69\nC(NIXW)\nmemo\nN-19[0]\n2/5/69\nC(NIXON)\nN-11\nMemo\ncopy of N- 4\n[II]\nFILE GROUP TITLE\nBOX NUMBER\nP's Personal Files\n/\nFOLDER TITLE\nMemos - February 1969\nRESTRICTION CODES\nA. Release would violate a Federal statute or Agency Policy.\nE. Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or\nB. National security classified information.\nfinancial information.\nC. Pending or approved claim that release would violate an individual's\nF. Release would disclose investigatory information compiled for law\nrights.\nenforcement purposes.\nD. Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy\nG. Withdrawn and return private and personal material.\nor a libel of a living person.\nH. Withdrawn and returned non-historical material.\nNATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION\nNA FORM 1421 (4-85)\nPresidential Materials Review Board\nReview on Contested Documents\nCollection:\nPresident's Personal Files\nBox Number:\n1\nFolder:\nMemos - February 1969\nDocument\nDisposition\n8\nRetain Open\n9\nReturn\nPrivate/Personal\n10\nRetain\nOpen\n11\nRetain\nOpen\n12\nRetain\nOpen\n13\nRetain\nClose\nInvasion of Privacy\n14\nRetain\nClose\nNational Security\nFebruary 5, 1969\nTO:\nMrs. Nixon\nFROM:\nThe President\nI would like for Tricia and you to look over\nthe Executive Office Building office with the decorator and\nlay out a plan for me. I want particularly a properly pro-\nportioned table or desk where I can comfortably do some\nwriting, and a big comfortable chair similar to the one I\nnow have in the Lincoln Sitting Room. I also want the\npicture rack from New York, and would like to get pictures\nof the family properly framed so that I can put them either\non the desk or on a side table. In addition to those pictures,\nsome of the autographed pictures that I have from the house\nand also the ones from Eisenhower and Hoover which are in\nmy office in New York should be included.\nIn decorating the personal office which I will\nuse will you also give the decorator instructions with regard\nto the bigger room which will be used as a sitting room and\nthe reception room which is right next to it. I would like to\nhave a pretty good book shelf so that I can put some of my\nfavorite books from the library in New York there. For\nexample, Toynbee, Churchill, Lincoln and some of the others\nwhich were in my library directly behind my desk.\nFebruary 5, 1969\nTO:\nMrs. Nixon\nFROM:\nThe President\nI would like for Tricia and you to look over\nthe Executive Office Building office with the decorator and\nlay out a plan for me. I want particularly a properly pro-\nportioned table or desk where I can comfortably do some\nwriting, and a big comfortable chair similar to the one I\nnow have in the Lincoln Sitting Room. I also want the\npicture rack from New York, and would like to get pictures\nof the family properly framed so that I can put them either\non the desk or on a side table. In addition to those pictures,\nsome of the autographed pictures that I have from the house\nand also the ones from Eisenhower and Hoover which are in\nmy office in New York should be included.\nIn decorating the personal office which I will\nuse will you also give the decorator instructions with regard\nto the bigger room which will be used as a sitting room and\nthe reception room which is right next to it. I would like to\nhave a pretty good book shelf so that I can put some of my\nfavorite books from the library in New York there. For\nexample, Toynbee, Churchill, Lincoln and some of the others\nwhich were in my library directly behind my desk."
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