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    "ocrText": "THE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nCABINET CHRISTMAS DINNER\nThe White House\nHAS\nSEED\nDecember 16, 1972\nPRESIDENT\n7:30 p.m.\nDress: Black Tie\nlong dresses for the ladies\nArrival:\n7:30 p.m.\nyour guests will arrive through the Diplomatic\nReception Room and will be escorted to the East Room for\ncocktails\nEntrance:\n7:40 p.m.\nYou and Mrs. Nixon proceed to the State Floor\nby elevator\nVice President and Mrs. Agnew join you in\nthe Grand Hall just outside the Red Room\npause for\nRuffles and Flourishes and announcement\nenter East\nRoom as \"Hail to the Chief\" is played. Colors will be pre-\npositioned in the East Room.\nYou, Mrs. Nixon, Vice President and Mrs. Agnew receive\nguests from a position just inside the entrance to the East\nRoom.\nDinner:\nAt the conclusion of the receiving line, you, Mrs. Nixon and\nthe Agnews follow guests into State Dining Room.\nRound tables\n--\nArmy Chorus will sing during dessert\nAs the dinner draws to a close, you will rise and make\nremarks\nSecretary Rogers will respond to your remarks\nNOTE: Remarks will be recorded for Presidential Archives\nonly.\nNOTE: Suggested remarks are attached. (Tab A)\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n-2-\nCabinet Christmas Dinner\nAfter Dinner:\n--\nGuests proceed to parlors for coffee, liqueurs, and cigars\nyou, Mrs. Nixon, Vice President and Mrs. Agnew are\nescorted to the Blue Room\nAfter-dinner guests are escorted upstairs and directed\nimmediately to their seats in the East Room.\nNOTE: Marine Harp and Flute will play in the Diplomatic\nReception Room during the arrival of the after-dinner\nguests.\nEntertainment:\n--\nYou, Mrs. Nixon, Vice President and Mrs. Agnew enter\nthe East Room together and are seated in the first row.\n- -\nYou proceed to the microphone and introduce the\nentertainment -- Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians\nNOTE: Suggested remarks are attached.\nAt the conclusion of the performance, you and Mrs. Nixon\ngo forward to thank the entertainers\nPRESS PLAN: Wire photographers, one TV network pool\ncamera and a small writing pool will cover your introductory\nremarks at the beginning of the entertainment, and your\nexpressions of thanks at the end of the program.\nDeparture:\n--\nYou and Mrs. Nixon will be escorted to the Family Quarters\nfollowing the entertainment\n--\nThere will be champagne and dancing in the Grand Hall for\nyour guests\nNOTE: Lists of the dinner and after-dinner guests are\nattached. (Tab B)\nPat Howard\nPat Howard\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n(Huebner) RP\nDecember 14, 1972\nSUGGESTED REMARKS: DINNER FOR CABINE T MEMBERS\nChristmas is a special family holiday -- and it is appropriate\nthat we gather together our official family - several generations\nof it - - at this time of the year.\nJust as we feel the spirit of Christmas past, Christmas\npresent and Christmas yet to come, so we greet the members of\nCabinets past, Cabinets present and Cabinets yet to come - and\nwe feel the bond which joins the past, the present and the future.\nAs our official family gathers in this historic house, I think\nof the comment which fathers used to give to their families as they\ngathered around the dinner table: Always remember that the room\nfor improvement is still the biggest room in the house.\nI feel a little like a football coach tonight as we gather for a\nhalftime pep talk before we move into the third quarter of this\nAdministration. We've had a good first half. We followed our game\nplan and the score shows us ahead. But always remember this:\nNo one remembers the score at halftime; the final score is the only\nthing that counts. What we need now is a strong second half.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n- 2 -\nFour years ago we were a new team. Now we are an\nexperiencedteam. But let us always remember Aldous Huxley's\nwarning: \"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you\ndo with what happens to you. 11 All the experience in the world\nwon't do us any good unless we use it to make ourselves even\nmore effective.\n-\nEven before Christianity the winter solstice was a holiday\nseason, for this was the time when the days began to grow longer\nagain. It was the time when the sun was \"reborn. \" This is also\na time of rebirth and renewal for our Administration as we take\nstock of the record we have made and resolve to build on it.\n-\nWhen our first Cabinet was sworn in four years ago, I\nreferred to the fact that Cabinets had many nicknames over the\nyears: Kitchen Cabinet, Tennis Cabinet, Medicine Ball Cabinet,\nand so on. Ours, I said, would be called a \"Working Cabinet. 11\nThat's what it's been for the past four years and that's what it\nwill be for the next four years.\n-\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n- 3 -\nThe night Lincoln heard he had won the Presidency, he had\ntrouble falling asleep. \"I began at once to feel that I needed\nsupport, 11 he said, \"others to share with me the burden. \" And\nso the first thing he did the next day was to make up his Cabinet.\nHe realized, as I do, that the Presidency is not a one-man job.\nAristotle wrote that a good leader must have \"many eyes\nand ears and hands and feet. 11 My eyes and ears and hands and\nfeet are in this room tonight.\nFrancis Bacon wrote that \"the greatest trust between man and\nman is the trust of giving counsel. 11 That is why I value all of\nyou so highly.\nThe tennis player, Arthur Ashe, says of his game: \"When I\nam serving well, everything else falls into place. 11 All of you\nwho have worked in my first Administration can be proud of your\nservice -- and that is why so many things have fallen into place for\nour country.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n- 4 -\nThe Book of Proverbs says \"in a multitude of counselors\nthere is safety. 11 If that is true, then I am really safe tonight.\nTheodore Roosevelt described the best leader as one \"who\nhas enough sense to pick good men.\nand self-restraint to keep\nfrom meddling with them. 11 I hope I meet this definition.\nWill Rogers once announced this plan for fighting enemy\nsubmarines in World War I. The ocean would be heated to 212\ndegrees and when the submarines rose to the surface they would\nbe destroyed. But when he was asked how he would heat the\nocean he answered that his job was that of making policy and it\nwas up to someone else to work out the details.\nPerhaps that story rings true for some of you who have\nbeen asked to \"work out the details\" of our major policy decisions.\nIt's usually the toughest part of the job.\nAbraham Lincoln once described General Grant as \"the\nquietest little fellow you ever saw\nThe only evidence you have\nthat he is in anyplace is that he makes things git. Wherever he is,\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n- 5 -\nthings move.\nLike Lincoln, we refuse to equate noise with\neffectiveness. We want people who \"make things git\" -- and\nwe think we've got them.\nWilliam Wrigley used to say that when two business\npartners agree all the time, one of them is unnecessary. All\nof us here tonight are partners in government who agree about\na lot of things. But we also draw strength from our diversity.\nThe Cabinet wives are key members of our team. I am\nreminded of the Cabinet wife who was asked one day what party\nher husband belonged to and she responded: \"I am the party he\nbelongs to. 11 She was right -- and we are going to keep that in\nmind, too, in the months ahead.\nAs we gather tonight, the Apollo 17 astronauts are on their\nway home from the moon. Our space program has taught us\ndramatically about the power of human cooperation literally to\naccomplish miracles. We can do things together we cannot do\nalone. Like the Apollo team, the executive branch of Government\nis a highly interdependent organism -- and it depends on leaders\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n- 6 -\nwho are masters in the art of teamwork.\n-\nAt this Christmas season I think about the progress we have\nmade in bringing peace on earth and good will among men. Much\nremains to be done, but we can gain strength for pursuing that\ngoal because we can see it and feel it just a little more clearly\nat this time of year.\nYou may recall the old story which makes this point. It\nhappened at Christmas in 1914 during the time of the terrible\ntrench warfare in France. Both sides were dug deeply into their\npositions -- facing each other across a murderous no-man's\nzone. It was Christmas eve. Then suddenly from one side of\nthe zone came a voice in the dark singing a familiar Christmas\ncarol. Voices on the other side joined in the singing until even-\ntually a great chorus of voices -- some German, some French,\nsome English -- were singing in harmony about the ancient Christ-\nmas ideals. For a moment the war was forgotten and men of all\nnations shared a glimpse of a better way. May this be true for\nall of us as we rededicate ourselves to those ideals during this\nChristmas season.\n-\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n- 7 -\nSome history: The Founding Fathers decided after much\ndebate not to mention the Cabinet in the Constitution. Hamilton\nsaid the President would find it only 1) \"a clog upon his good\nintentions; 2) \"instruments and accomplices of his bad [inten-\ntions and 3) \"a cloak to conceal his faults. 11 President\nWashington expected first the Senate and then the Supreme\nCourt to be his advisory bodies. Only when he was spurned\nby both did he begin to sit down with the Department Secretaries\nand thus the Cabinet began. The first recorded meeting was held\nin 1791 -- though records show that boththe President and Attorney\nGeneral were absent.\n# # #\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n(Huebner) RP\nDecember 15, 1972\nSUGGESTED REMARKS: INTRODUCTION FOR FRED WARING\nGROUP\nFred Waring has a unique characteristic, one which I know\ndistinguishes him from everyone in this room. He's been in\nthe same job since he was 17 years old.\nThe important thing, however, is that he's never let himself\ngrow stale in that work.\nThe driving force in Fred Waring's life is his desire,\nin his own words, to \"do things better and better, 11 and he has\nsucceeded in that endeavor. I've been listening to his music for\nmany years and each time I hear the Pennsylvanians they seem\nto top their previous performance. I feel safe, therefore, in\npredicting that we have a special treat awaiting us tonight as we\nlisten to Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians.\nFred Waring, as you may know, is a man of many talents.\nHe plays golf in the low 70's, he is a distinguished civic leader,\nhe operates a fine resort and runs a music publishing firm. And\nhe also is an inventor, having prefected the steam iron and the\nfamous Waring blender. But tonight we will all be witnesses to that\ntalent which brought him his greatest fame - - Fred Waring's talent\nas a \"blender\" of human voices in the magic of song.\n# ##\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nDINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE\nSaturday, December 16, 1972\nat 7:30 o'clock\nThe President & Mrs. Nixon\nThe Vice President & Mrs. Agnew\nThe Secretary of State & Mrs. Rogers\nMrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower\nThe Secretary of the Treasury &Mrs. Shultz\nThe Attorney General & Mrs. Kleindienst\nThe Secretary of the Interior & Mrs. Morton\nThe Secretary of Agriculture & Mrs. Butz\nThe Secretary of Commerce & Mrs. Peterson\nThe Secretary of Labor & Mrs. Hodgson\nThe Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare & Mrs. Richardson\nThe Secretary of Housing & Urban Development & Mrs. Romney\nThe Secretary of Transportation & Mrs. Volpe\nHon. & Mrs. David M. Kennedy\nAmbassador at Large\nHon. & Mrs. Caspar W. Weinberger\nDir., Office of Management & Budget\nSecretary of HEW-designate\nHon. & Mrs. Robert H. Finch\nCounsellor to the President\nHon. & Mrs. Donald Rumsfeld\nCounsellor to the President\nHon. & Mrs. George Bush\nU. S. Representative to the UN\nHon. & Mrs. Arthur F. Burns\nChmn., Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System\nSenator Robert J. Dole (Kansas)\nChmn., Republican National Committee\nHon. John N. Irwin II\nDeputy Secretary of State\nHon. & Mrs. Charls E. Walker\nDeputy Secretary of the Treasury\nHon. & Mrs. Kenneth Rush\nDeputy Secretary of Defense\nHon. & Mrs. Ralph E. Erickson\nDeputy Attorney General\nHon. & Mrs. J. Phil Campbell\nUnder Secretary of Agriculture\nHon. & Mrs. James T. Lynn\nUnder Secretary of Commerce\nSecretary of Housing & Urban Development-designate\nHon. & Mrs. Laurence H. Silberman\nUnder Secretary of Labor\nHon. & Mrs. John G. Veneman\nUnder Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n- 2 -\n12/16/72\nHon. & Mrs. Richard C. Van Dusen\nUnder Secretary of Housing & Urban Development\nHon. & Mrs. James M. Beggs\nUnder Secretary of Transportation\nHon. & Mrs. Herbert Stein\nChmn., Council of Economic Advisers\nHon. & Mrs. Russell E. Train\nChmn., Council on Environmental Quality\nFormer Under Secretary of the Interior\nHon. & Mrs. Edward E. David, Jr.\nDirector, Office of Science and Technology\nHon. & Mrs. H. R. Haldeman\nAssistant to the President\nHon. Henry A. Kissinger\nAssistant to the President for National Security Affairs\nHon. & Mrs. Peter M. Flanigan\nAssistant to the President\nHon. & Mrs. William E. Timmons\nAssistant to the President for Congressional Relations\nHon. & Mrs. Herbert G. Klein\nDirector of Communications for the Executive Branch\nHon. & Mrs. Ronald L. Ziegler\nPress Secretary to the President\nHon. & Mrs. Leonard Garment\nSpecial Consultant to the President\nHon. & Mrs. Alexander P. Butterfield\nDeputy Assistant to the President\nHon. & Mrs. John C. Whitaker\nDeputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs\nUnder Secretary of the Interior-designate\nHon. & Mrs. Egil Krogh, Jr.\nDeputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs\nUnder Secretary of Transportation-designate\nHon. & Mrs. Frederic V. Malek\nSpecial Assistant to the President\nHon. John A. Scali\nSpecial Consultant to the President\nHon. & Mrs. John S. D. Eisenhower\nChmn., Interagency Classification Review Board\nFormer Ambassador to Belgium\nHon. & Mrs. Robert J. Brown\nSpecial Assistant to the President\nHon. & Mrs. E. T. Klassen\nPostmaster General\nFormer Deputy Postmaster General\nHon. & Mrs. Roy L. Ash\nDir., Office of Management & Budget-designate\nHon. & Mrs. Winton M. Blount\nFormer Postmaster General\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n- 3 -\n12/16/72\nMr. & Mrs. Peter J. Brennan\nSecretary of Labor-designate\nMr. & Mrs. Claude S. Brinegar\nSecretary of Transportation-designate\nMr. & Mrs. William P. Clements, Jr.\nDeputy Secretary of Defense-designate\nMr. & Mrs. Frederick B. Dent\nSecretary of Commerce-designate\nMrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, II\nWashington, D.C.\nHon. & Mrs. Clifford M. Hardin\nFormer Secretary of Agriculture\nHon. & Mrs. Bryce N. Harlow\nFormer Counsellor to the President\nHon. & Mrs. Walter J. Hickel\nFormer Secretary of the Interior\nHon. & Mrs. Robert P. Mayo\nFormer Counsellor to the President\nHon. Daniel P. Moynihan\nFormer Counsellor to the President\nU.S. Ambassador to India-designate\nHon. & Mrs. David Packard\nFormer Deputy Secretary of Defense\nHon. & Mrs. Rocco C. Siciliano\nFormer Under Secretary of Commerce\nMr. & Mrs. William E. Simon\nDeputy Secretary of the Treasury-designate\nHon. Maurice H. Stans\nFormer Secretary of Commerce\nMr. & Mrs. Fred Waring\nShawnee-on-Delaware, Pennsylvania\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nENTERTAINMENT - Saturday, December 16, 1972 at 10:00 p.m.\nThe President & Mrs. Nixon\nMr. Fred Asbell\nAlexandria, Virginia\nMiss Eve Auchincloss\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Joyce Barbour\nIndian Head, Maryland\nMiss Victoria Bartlett\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. Thomas D. Bell, Jr.\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Cathy Bertini\nSkaneteles, New York\nMr. Clifford Brain\nPotomac, Maryland\nMr. Dave Brown\nAlexandria, Virginia\nMiss Bay Buchanan\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Susan Bullard\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. & Mrs. Gary L. Burhop\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Victoria Lynn Chern\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. David Chew\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Alana Clarke\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Pat Connell\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Constance Corby\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. Ben Cotton\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Josephine L. Creighton\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Claire Cronin\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Connie Cudd\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. Thomas M. Davis\nCharlottesville, Virginia\nMiss Martha H. Duncan\nFalls Church, Virginia\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n- 2 - 12/16/72 at 10:00 p.m.\nMr. Richard F. Ehmanns, Jr.\nEscort of Miss Kathleen O. O'Melia\nMr. & Mrs. Donald Fierce\nAlexandria, Virginia\nMiss Marcia Fuller\nAlexandria, Virginia\nMr. Jack Ford\nAlexandria, Virginia\nMiss Kristin Forsberg\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Laura Frederick\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. George K. Gorton\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. Raymond L. Gray\nEscort of Miss Lacy O'Neal\nMiss Veronica Anne Haggart\nAlexandria, Virginia\nMr. Hank Haldeman\nChevy Chase, Maryland\nMr. William M. Harper, Jr.\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Angela Harris\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. James Heard\nEscort of Mrs. Brenda E. Pettross\nMiss Christine A. Kristakos\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. Gary Hunt\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. Jim Hunter\nArlington, Virginia\nMr. Charles Ill\nPotomac, Maryland\nMiss Lea Jablonsky\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Marilyn K. Johnson\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Diane Kalin\nArlington, Virginia\nMiss A. Noelle Kantzer\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. Bill Lamont\nAlexandria, Virginia\nMr. Alexander Laughlin\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Dolly Madison\nWashington, D. C.\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n- 3 - 12/16/72 at 10:00 p.m.\nMiss Marta Metcalf\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. Edward A. Meyers, Jr.\nDemarest, New Jersey\nMiss Angela Miller\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. William E. Minshall, III\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. Rodd Moesel\nOklahoma City, Oklahoma\nMr. & Mrs. John C. Moore, Jr.\nRockville, Maryland\nMiss Carolyn Muse\nHyattsville, Maryland\nMr. Bill Nicholas\nAlexandria, Virginia\nMiss Kathleen O. O'Melia\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Lacy O'Neal\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Sylvia Panarites\nArlington, Virginia\nMrs. Brenda E. Pettross\nHyattsville, Maryland\nMr. Robert A. Podesta\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Pam Powell\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. & Mrs. Bernard Presock\nNew Carrollton, Maryland\nMiss Barbara Preve\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. & Mrs. Tom Pugh\nAlexandria, Virginia\nMr. Charles Reisler\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. Kenneth Rietz\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Katherine Rollins\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Margaret Rott\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. Bill Russo\nAlexandria, Virginia\nMr. Kenneth M. Smith\nAlexandria, Virginia\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\n- 4 - 12/16/72 at 10:00 p.m.\nMr. Orlando Springs\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Patricia A. Strunk\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. & Mrs. Don Sunquist\nPresident, Young Republicans, Washington, D. C.\nMr. Kenneth K. Talmage\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Teri Anne Thayer\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. John Thompson\nEaston, Maryland\nMr. Harold Trimmer\nEscort of Miss Carrie Elizabeth Wagner\nMr. & Mrs. John Venners\nArlington, Virginia\nMr. Jeffrey A. Volk\nWashington, D. C.\nMiss Carrie Elizabeth Wagner\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. Robert S. Walker\nFalls Church, Virginia\nMiss Elizabeth P. Wallach\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. John Taylor Washburn\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. Thomas Wiens\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. Ted Wigger\nNapa, California\nMiss Emily Williams\nWashington, D. C.\nMr. & Mrs. Charles Woodruff\nBurke, Virginia\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum\nWilson to own lobit family\nEmpily to Mus E. -\nTo Proper test $ Colint n\n- The U.P.-\nMot Preshaf that $ and\nTo proper That & Provident,\nCamilla act Bar\nBryone Holan noting your Z\nPat many ind will god to given hold\nBlo Firsh t An\nI\nThe 113 warm sand no\nWe need a\nan amounting\nReproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum"
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