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Start Date: 25-Oct-1971 3:30 PM

End Date: 25-Oct-1971 4:35 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Woods, Rose MaryEhrlichman, John D.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:47:13

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:50:14

304a.mp3

304b.mp3

NARA Description:

On October 25, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:30 pm and 4:35 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 304-016 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 304-16

Date: October 25, 1971
Time: Unknown between 3:30 pm and 4:35 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

     Weather
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                    Conv. No. 304-16 (cont.)


     Demonstrations
         -Rennie Davis
         -Manolo Sanchez
         -George Washington University
         -White House
         -Unknown North Vietnam leader

The President talked with an unknown person [John D. Ehrlichman ?] at an unknown time
between 3:30 pm and 3:35 pm

[Conversation No. 304-16A]

     The President's schedule

[End of telephone conversation]

     Booklets as gifts
         -The President's instructions

     Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
          -Schedule
               -People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
               -Possible announcement

Ehrlichman entered at 3:35 pm.

     Demonstrations
         -Davis
              -Permit
              -John W. Dean, III

     The President's schedule
          -Forthcoming meeting with George P. Shultz

Ehrlichman left at 3:37 pm.

     The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
          -Mrs. Nixon
          -Secretaries
               -Henry A. Kissinger
          -Mrs. Nixon
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                                 Tape Subject Log
                                   (rev. 10/06)
                                                             Conv. No. 304-16 (cont.)


     -Chou En-lai, Mao Tse-tung
          -Wives
     -George E. Allen
     -Mrs. Nixon
          -Sentiments
          -Possible itinerary
     -Kissinger

Woods's conversation with unknown friend of Joseph Woods
    -The President's attitude toward the press

Administration relations with the media
    -Kissinger
    -Background interviews
          -Supreme Court
                -Arlin M. Adams
                      -Hugh Scott
                      -Richard S. Schweiker
    -Helen Thomas [?]
          -Martha Mitchell
                -Woods

Condolence instructions
    -Donald McI. Kendall
         -Father's death

Roger E. Johnson
    -Richard Funkhouser
           -The President's possible instructions to Woods
                Kissinger
                Peter M. Flanigan
           -Ambassadorial interests
           -Flanigan

The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
     -Mrs. Nixon
     -Kissinger
     -Staff composition
           -Support staff
     -Mrs. Nixon
           -Staff
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                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)
                                                           Conv. No. 304-16 (cont.)


                -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                -Ronald L. Ziegler
                -John A. Scali
                -Constance M. Stuart
                -Ziegler
     -Secret Service
     -White House Communication Agency [WHCA]
     -James D. (“Don”) Hughes
     -Mrs. Nixon

The President's past efforts

The President's schedule
     -Forthcoming visit of Josip Broz Tito
     -Florida
     -Preparation
            -Mrs. Nixon
            -Florida
     -Italian Foreign Minister
            -Columbus Day
     -Haldeman
     -White House staff vacation policies
            -The President's instructions
                  -Haldeman
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                               Conv. No. 304-16 (cont.)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 35m 40s ]


[An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:37 pm]

[The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4

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     Public relations
          -Logistics
                 -Charles W. Colson


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 4m 34s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5

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Rose Mary Woods left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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