Conversation: 017-024
Prev: 017-023 Next: 017-025Start Date: 24-Dec-1971 4:41 PM
End Date: 24-Dec-1971 4:55 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rumsfeld, Donald H.; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rumsfeld, Donald H.;Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:10:56
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:24:15
NARA Description:
On December 24, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Donald H. Rumsfeld talked on the telephone from 4:41 pm to 4:55 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-024 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 17-24
Date: December 24, 1971
Time: 4:41 pm - 4:55 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Donald H. Rumsfeld.
Rumsfeld's press conference
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 1s ]
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Henry A. Kissinger
-Concerned with world events
-India-Pakistan War
-US responsibility
-West Pakistan
-Public interest
Vietnam
Israel
Indians
Pakistanis
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
President's schedule
-Meetings
-Rumsfeld's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-US economy
-President's leadership
-President to do program with Dan Rather for Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Rather
-Style
-Walter L. Cronkite and [Arnold] Eric Sevareid
-Questions
-Credibility
-President's trips
-Timing
-State of the Union
-Vietnam announcement
-President's meeting with Eisaku Sato
-Economy
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] trip
US economy
-Christmas retail sales
-In US
-In Southern California
-Robert H. Finch
-Increases over last year
-Amount
-Public confidence
-Wage and price controls
-Percentage
-Lifting controls
-Rents
-Thomas B. Curtis
-Recommendations
-January and February
-De-control
-Luxury apartments
-Vacancies
-Percentage
-Los Angeles, California
-Florida
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Competition
-Press
-Secondary story
-President's trip to PRC
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 5m 52s ]
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Football games
"Brian's Song" movie
-Chicago Bears
-Brian Piccolo
-Gale E. Sayers
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] movie
-White House, December 23
-Rumsfeld family invited
-Race relations