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Conversation: 616-001

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Start Date: 10-Nov-1971 12:45 PM

End Date: 10-Nov-1971 12:56 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Boone, PatBoone, ShirleySpina, JackPrice, Patrick H.Cashen, Henry C., II

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:00:28

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:10:31

616a.mp3

616b.mp3

NARA Description:

On November 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Pat Boone, Shirley Boone, Jack Spina, Patrick H. Price, and Henry C. Cashen, II met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:45 pm to 12:56 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 616-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 616-1

Date: November 10, 1971
Time: 12:45 pm - 12:56 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Pat Boone, Shirley Boone, Cheryl Boone, Linda Boone, Deborah Boone,
Laura Boone, Jack Spina, Patrick H. Price and Henry C. Cashen II; the White House
photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the meeting was is progress]

     Barry M. Goldwater
          -Speech

     Oval Office
          -Theodore Roosevelt
          -Former location of the President's office
                -Abraham Lincoln
          -Presidential seal
                -Ceiling
                -Floor
                      -Carpet

     Presentation of gifts by the President
          -Presidential seal

     Oval Office
          -Uses
               -Josip Broz Tito, Indira Gandhi and Andrei A. Gromyko
          -Old Executive Office Building [EOB] Office

     Presentation of gifts by the President
          -Pens

     Golf balls
          -The Vice President
                                        2

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)
                                                                 Conv. No. 616-1 (cont.)


West Wing rooms
     -Cabinet Rooms
     -Roosevelt Room
     -Staff meetings
           -Timing

Oval Office
     -Furnishings
          -Flags
     -Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson
          -Presidential libraries
     -Music box

Children
     -Julie Nixon Eisenhower

White House
     -Fireplaces

The President's leadership
     -Pat Boone’s recent conversation with Goldwater
     -Foreign policy
           -The President’s forthcoming trips to Moscow and Peking
     -National economy
           -Wage and price freeze
     -Goldwater's speech

Goldwater
    -Speech on Lockheed
          -Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.

Shirley Boone
      -Hometown
      -Father, Red Foley

Nashville
    -Grand Ole Opry
    -Country-Western music
          -Spirituality
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                 Conv. No. 616-1 (cont.)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 3s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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     Entertainers

Boone, et al., left at 12:56 pm.