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Conversation: 643-002

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Start Date: 24-Dec-1971 4:20 PM

End Date: 24-Dec-1971 11:59 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Atkins, Oliver F. ("Ollie")[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:02:24

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:08:53

643a.mp3

643b.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 24, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Oliver F. ("Ollie") Atkins, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:20 pm and 11:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 643-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 643-2

Date: December 24, 1971
Time: Unknown between 4:20 pm and 11:59 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins and unknown men.
[The recording began at an unknown time while the conversation was in progress]

     Photograph session
          -Posing
               -Atkins's previous conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
                     -Ziegler's and Atkins’s views
                                                2

                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                         Tape Subject Log
                                           (rev. 10/06)
                                                                      Conv. No. 643-2 (cont.)


                              -Smiling
                -Smiling
                -Speed of film
           -Lighting
                -Time of day
                -Daylight Savings Time
           -Posing
                -Timing
                -Smiling
                -Coco-lobo II

     Helen Thomas
          -Rumor
              -Unknown journalists
              -Atkins

     [Unintelligible]

     Season’s greetings

     The President's family
          -Yellow Room

     Presentation of gifts by the President
          -Cuff links
          -Golf balls

The President left at 4:28 pm.

     Forthcoming photograph session
          -Edward R. F. and Tricia Nixon Cox
          -[Dwight] David, II and Julie Nixon Eisenhower
          -Preparations

Atkins and the unknown men left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.