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Conversation: 642-039

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Start Date: 3-Jan-1972 12:32 PM

End Date: 3-Jan-1972 12:43 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Bull, Stephen B.White House operatorButterfield, Alexander P.Cox, Tricia Nixon

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 05:31:59

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 05:42:59

642a.mp3

642b.mp3

642c.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, White House operator, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:32 pm and 12:43 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 642-039 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 642-39

Date: January 3, 1972
Time: Unknown after 12:32 pm until 12:43 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

     [Unintelligible]

Bull left and reentered at an unknown time after 12:32 pm.

     Tricia Nixon Cox
           -Call to the President
                 -Time
                 -Camp David
                 -Message from the President

     Fina Sanchez
          -Message to the President through Bull
               -Thanks

[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:32 pm and
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                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)



12:36 pm.]

[Conversation No. 642-39A]

[See Conversation No. 18-11]

[End of telephone conversation]

     Sanchez
          -Message to the President
              -Manolo Sanchez

     Misplaced papers
          -Location
               -Manolo Sanchez
               -Executive Office Building [EOB]

Bull left and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time before 12:36 pm.

     Items for the President’s signature

[The White House operator talked with Butterfield at an unknown time.]

[Conversation No. 642-39B]

[See Conversation No. 18-12; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

Butterfield conferred with the President.

     Documents
         -Distribution
               -William P. Rogers
               -Melvin R. Laird
               -Henry A. Kissinger
               -Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]

[End of conferral]

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:36 pm.

[The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox between 12:36 pm and 12:43 pm.]
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                                      Tape Subject Log
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                                                                    Conv. No. 642-39 (cont.)