Conversation: 636-009
Prev: 636-008 Next: 636-010Start Date: 10-Dec-1971 5:11 PM
End Date: 10-Dec-1971 5:34 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Butterfield, Alexander P.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:27:27
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:52:49
NARA Description:
On December 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:11 pm to 5:34 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 636-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 636-9
Date: December 10, 1971
Time: 5:11 pm - 5:34 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Alexander P. Butterfield.
Papers for signature
Votes
Postmaster General
-Note
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.
Position of unknown item
-Picture of George Washington
Stephen B. Bull
Robert P. Griffin
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:11 pm and
5:15 pm.
[Conversation No. 636-9A]
[See Conversation No. 16-83]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 636-9 (cont.)
[End of telephone conversation]
William H. Rehnquist confirmation
-Number of votes
The President talked with Griffin between 5:15 pm and 5:17 pm.
[Conversation No. 636-9B]
[See Conversation No. 16-84]
[End of telephone conversation]
The President talked with the White House operator at 5:17 pm.
Charles Evans Hughes
[Conversation No. 636-9C]
[See Conversation No. 16-85]
[End of telephone conversation]
Rehnquist confirmation
-William E. Timmons
Democrats
-Speaking out
The President talked with Rehnquist between 5:18 pm and 5:20 pm.
[Conversation No. 636-9D]
[See Conversation No. 16-86]
[End of telephone conversation]
Society
-Pressures
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 636-9 (cont.)
Washington Post
-Editorials
-Joseph C. Kraft article on Rehnquist
Stock market figures
-Tax bill passage
-Numbers
-French
-John B. Connally
-Proposed deal
Economy
-Businessmen
-Pay Board
-Price Commission
-State of economy
-Connally
-Henry E. Ford II
-Public psychology
-Unemployment
-Predicted numbers
-[Forename unknown] Murphy’s views
-Auto production
-Projected numbers
-Lide A. Iacocca
-Ford
-Meetings
-Social events with the Ford family
-Iacocca
-Business style
-Influence
-Congress
-War
The President's schedule
-Key Biscayne
-Timing
-Weather
-California
-Temperature range for January
-Santa Ana
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 636-9 (cont.)
-Preference for Key Biscayne
-Washington
-Christmas shopping
-Staff
-Cabinet
-Camp David
-Florida
-California
-Walter H. Annenberg
-Palm Springs, Florida
-California
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Proposed activities
-Weather conditions
Unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 5:38 pm.
Rehnquist confirmation
-Comparison of close votes in the past
-Justice Nathan Clifford, 1857
-Justice Stanley Matthews, 1881
-Justice Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, 1887
Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:20 pm.
The President's schedule
-Jerrold L. Schecter
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:38 pm.
Peace Corps
-Timmons
-Otto E. Passman
-George P. Shultz
-Call to Timmons
-Presidential letter
-Support of Committee bill
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Joseph H. Blatchford
-Liberal Republicans
-Letter from the President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 636-9 (cont.)
-Possible maneuvering of bill
-Shultz
-Involvement
-Timmons
-Congress
Budget
-India
-Aid
-Shultz And Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Bureaucracy
-Leaks
Connally
-Conversation with the President
-Democrats
Rose Mary Woods
Haldeman left at 5:34 pm.