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Start Date: 10-Dec-1971 10:37 AM

End Date: 10-Dec-1971 11:04 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; 

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:37:23

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:45:08

637a.mp3

637b.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:37 am and 11:04 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 637-009 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 637-9

Date: December 12, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:37 am and 11:04 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

     The President's schedule
          -Press conference [?]
               -State Department
               -Timing
          -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
               -Ziegler's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
                      -Timing
                      -The President’s forthcoming interview with Dan Rather

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:37 am.

     Gift from Walter H. Annenberg
           -Placement in Oval Office
                -Picture of George Washington

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:04 am..

     CBS
           -Ziegler's talk with Haldeman
                 -National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
                       -"A Day in the Life of the President"
                             -Timing
           -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                 -Christmas special
                       -Timing
           -Ziegler's talk with William Small [President, CBS News Division]
           -CBS
           -NBC
                 -"A Day in the Life of the President"
                       -News worthiness
                       -Gen. Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle
                       -Lyndon B. Johnson
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                      Conv. No. 637-9 (cont.)


                     -News release
                           -NBC’s statement
                     -Leadership meetings
                     -National Security Council [NSC] meeting
                     -Henry A. Kissinger meeting
                     -Cabinet Room
                     -State dinner
                     -Pierre E. Trudeau meeting
                     -Optimism for NBC program
                     -Ziegler's talk with Charles Colson
                           -Meeting
                                 -Program for incoming wires and phone calls to NBC
                                       -Number
                                       -Rerun
                                            -Program defined as historical document
                     -Middle East
                           -Anwar el-Sadat
                     -India/Pakistan situation
                     -Camera movement
                     -Ziegler's briefing
                     -Kissinger

Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:04 am.