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Conversation: 631-003

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Start Date: 7-Dec-1971 3:04 PM

End Date: 7-Dec-1971 3:11 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Bull, Stephen B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:35:22

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:43:40

631a.mp3

631b.mp3

631c.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:04 pm to 3:11 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 631-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 631-3

Date: December 7, 1971
Time: 3:04 pm - 3:11 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

     India-Pakistan
           -Backgrounder
                -Ronald L. Ziegler's talk with Henry A. Kissinger

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:04 pm.

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with Maurice H. Stans

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm.

     India-Pakistan
           -Kissinger's backgrounder
                -Talk with Ziegler
                -Talk with Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
                -The President’s view
                -State Department
                      -The President’s talk with Ziegler
                            -William P. Rogers
                -Ziegler’s previous conversation with Haldeman
                      -Rogers's speech at Pierre E. Trudeau dinner
                            -Timing
                            -Kissinger's comments
                                  -Conversation with Haldeman
                                  -Possible fallout from Rogers’ speech
                                       -Cienfuegos crisis
                                       -India-Pakistan
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                       Conv. No. 631- 3(cont.)


                                            -State Department
                                                  -Middle East negotiations
                                 -Kissinger’s negotiations
                                      -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
                                      -People’s Republic of China [PRC]
                                      -[Pakistan and India]
                                      -Iran
                                            -Cable
                                                  -Haldeman’s questions to Kissinger
                                            -Rogers
          -Rogers's speech
               -National Security Council [NSC]
               -Backgrounder
               -The President’s statement
                     -Tone
                           -Haldeman’s view
               -Canadians’ comments

Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:04 pm.

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with Stans
               -Peter G. Peterson and Kissinger
               -Timing

Bull left at an unknown time before 3:11 pm.

     Kissinger's backgrounder

Haldeman left at 3:11 pm.
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)