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Conversation 647-002

TapeTape 647StartThursday, January 13, 1972 at 10:12 AMEndThursday, January 13, 1972 at 10:19 AMTape start time00:02:38Tape end time00:08:54ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Woods, Rose Mary;  Bull, Stephen B.Recording deviceOval Office
AI Summary

President Nixon met with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, and aide Stephen B. Bull to address routine administrative tasks and correspondence. The participants reviewed documents requiring the President’s signature, discussed the proper handling of presidential gifts such as custom flag cufflinks, and coordinated upcoming scheduling matters regarding Camp David. Stephen B. Bull joined the session briefly to assist with organizing gift inventories for official visitors.

Administrative tasksPresidential giftsSchedulingCamp DavidCorrespondenceOffice management
AudioNARA Description

On January 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:12 am to 10:19 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 647-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 647-2

Date: January 13, 1972
Time: 10:12 am - 10:19 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

     Budget

     Items for the President's signature
          -Bob [Surname unknown]
          -Tricia Nixon Cox
                 -Envelope
          -Note to Gen. Walter R. Tkach
                 -Box

     US flag cufflinks
          -Unknown person
          -Possible placement in library
          -Note

     Camp David
         -Woods’s schedule
         -The President's return
         -Marjorie P. Acker

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:12 am.

     Presidential gifts for visitors
          -Pins
          -Tie clasps

Bull left at an unknown time before 10:19 am.

     Schedule
          -Acker

Woods left at 10:19 am.
Transcript (AI-Generated)

This transcript was generated automatically by AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite this transcript as authoritative. Consult the Finding Aid above for verified information.

Oh, you better put that in there.
Thank you, Mr. McFadden.
I was just going to ask you about this.
This was in that envelope with the page on my Christmas.
Did you, it was a, what's the line?
Did you thank him or shall we write him a note?
Yeah, write him a note.
Okay.
He sent a box out about it, but I didn't know.
Okay.
And if any of that stuff gave you the most tough ones that night on the plane?
Yeah, they were with the American flag on them, yeah.
Yeah, they were special.
I can do that.
I'm afraid they'd get lost.
Yeah, I was.
These backpacks, as much as a lot of it was, whatever the hell they called them, they blocked that, you know what I mean?
They were specially designed.
Tough ones.
Exactly.
You're so unique.
I'm proud of the look of the fire.
You don't need to be active, but you've got to know about something else that anyone mentioned when he was afraid of the law.
I know, and I honestly don't feel exactly that way, which is, you know...
I don't want to know.
Well, they shouldn't have.
They should.
They shouldn't have.
There can't be anything like that.
Well, it's just one of those things.
So all that, I didn't mean to...
I thought I was checking over there...
No, I don't know.
I was outside.
When are you coming back?
I don't know if you can catch it in the marks.
I wish we were.
I wish we were.
No, Frank, no.
the high class were a little better for these fifth graders than these men.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, here we go.
That's it, if you mind, please.
Sorry, can you find the record?
It's fine.
I just can't tell how it's going to count.
It's so far behind.
That's right, there we go.
Okay.
There we go, that's good.
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