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Conversation: 632-004

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Start Date: 8-Dec-1971 10:27 AM

End Date: 8-Dec-1971 10:50 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Woods, Rose MaryWhite House operatorHaldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:59:48

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:22:23

632a.mp3

632b.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, White House operator, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:27 am to 10:50 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 632-004 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 632-4

Date: December 8, 1971
Time: 10:27 am - 10:50 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

     The President's schedule
          -Dinners
                -Ohio, Illinois, New York, California
                -Entertainment for December 7, 1971 dinner
          -Rita Reichman [?]

     J[ames] Curtis Counts
          -Talk with Woods

     The President’s schedule
          -Call from unknown person
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                        Conv. No. 632-4 (cont.)



The White House operator talked with the President at 10:28 am.

[Conversation No. 632-4A]

[See Conversation No. 16-42]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Counts
         -Offered presidency of Airco
              -Location
         -Checked with George P. Shultz and James D. Hodgson
              -Other job offers
                    -Trucking
                    -Roger M. Blough Construction Company
         -Mediator in labor strikes
              -Counts’ effectiveness
              -Options
                    -Presidential election of 1972
              -Blough
                    -Location
              -Unknown person


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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[Duration: 40s ]


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     The President's television appearances
          -Christmas 1971
          -Freeman Gosden's views
               -Possible outcome of the President’s speeches in front of students
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                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                              Conv. No. 632-4 (cont.)


                    -“Salute to the President” remarks
                         -Students


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[Duration: 3m 36s ]

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    Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
          -Call to Woods
                -Timing
          -Unknown woman
          -Willard W. Keith
                -Herbert W. Kalmbach
          -New York
                -Unknown woman


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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[Duration: 15s ]


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         -Letter from the President
               -Hope
         -Kalmbach
         -Gosden
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                               Conv. No. 632-4 (cont.)


               -Keith
          -Gosden
               -Kalmbach’s opinion

     Allen Hoover
          -Camp
               -Possible letter from the President to Hope

     [Letter dictated]

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at 10:45 am.

     John B. Connally's schedule
          -Meeting with the President
                -Time and day
          -Cost of Living Council [COLC] meeting
          -Timing of meeting
          -President’s schedule
                -French
                -Henry A. Kissinger
                -Paul A. Volcker
                      -Accompanying Kissinger
                -William P. Rogers
                      -Meetings with the French

Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:50 am.

     Bernard J. (“Bunny”) Lasker
          -Call to the President
                -Stock market
                      -International monetary situation
                      -December meetings
                            -Timing

     Autographed photographs
         -Football

     Nixon look-alike actor
         -Richard W. (“Dick”) Berlin
         -Appearance
               -Woods’ opinion
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                        NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. 10/06)
                                                             Conv. No. 632-4 (cont.)



    Envelopes

    Julie Nixon Eisenhower
          -Schedule
               -Location
                    -Timing
               -The President's forthcoming phone call
          -White House Christmas decorations
               -Upcoming Christmas television program


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 5s ]


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    The President’s schedule
         -Entertainment
              -Dwight D. Eisenhower
              -Lyndon B. Johnson
              -John F. Kennedy
              -Eisenhower
                     -Dinners
                     -Guests
              -World situation under previous presidents
                     -Amount of free time afforded to
                          -Individual games
                                -Golf and bridge


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                               Conv. No. 632-4 (cont.)


[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 14s ]


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Woods left at 10:50 am.