Conversation: 017-018
Prev: 017-017 Next: 017-019Start Date: Friday, December 24, 1971 8:12 PM
End Date: Friday, December 24, 1971 8:37 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:27:07
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:51:36
NARA Description:
On December 24, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 3:12 pm to 3:37 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-018 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 17-18
Date: December 24, 1971
Time: 3:12 pm - 3:37 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman .
Christmas shopping
[Unintelligible]
Henry A. Kissinger
-Spirit boosting
[Unintelligible]
William P. Rogers's press conference
-North Vietnam
-John D. Ehrlichman [?]
-Rogers
India-Pakistan War
-Commitment
Kissinger
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Tape Subject Log
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-Mood
National Cancer Act of 1971 bill signing
James R. (“Jimmy”) Hoffa
-Situation at home
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-Rogers
-Kissinger
Television
-News reports
-Hoffa
-National Cancer Act of 1971
-Rogers
-Donald H. Rumsfeld's press conference
-India-Pakistan War
-North Vietnam bombing
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Prisoners of War [POWs] release
-Amount
-Vietnamese children
-Kissinger
-POW release
-Hope
President’s schedule
-Christmas activities
-“Meet and greet” opportunities
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-St. John's church
-Metropolitan Police Boys Club
-Tree picture
-Time conflicts
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower television show
Kissinger
-John A. Scali
-Haldeman’s talk with Scali
-Concern for Kissinger
-Spokesman role
-Reduced role for Kissinger in future
-Allegations
-Backgrounders
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Scali
-Backgrounders
-Scali
-Concern
-Interviews
-Rogers
-Kissinger
-Stress
-Backgrounders
-India-Pakistan War
-State Department
-Backgrounders
-Press
-Scali
-Acrimony
-Rogers's call to Scali
-Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
Call to Haldeman
-Kissinger
-Airplanes
-Rogers
-Moorer’s call to Rogers
-State Department
-Press
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Potential problem
-Scali
-Azores and Bermuda
-California
-Schedule
-Florida
-Rogers
-Attendance at the Orange Bowl
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Florida
-California
-Key West
-Kissinger