Conversation: 632-004
Prev: 632-003 Next: 632-005Start Date: 8-Dec-1971 10:27 AM
End Date: 8-Dec-1971 10:50 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; White House operator; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:59:48
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:22:23
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1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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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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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
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[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 ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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Woods left at 10:50 am.