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Start Date: 13-Jan-1972 12:37 PM

End Date: 13-Jan-1972 1:02 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Sheehan, James E. (Lt. Cmdr.)Sheehan, JohnSheehan, KathleenSheehan, KellySheehan, KevinSheehan, Eugene T.Sheehan, Edward J.Smith, GenevaGriffin, C. D. (Adm.)Nunn, Louie B.Cooper, John ShermanSparkman, John J.Burns, Arthur F.Robertson, J. L.Mitchell, George W.Daane, J. DeweyMaisel, Sherman J.Brimmer, Andrew F.Holland, RobertShultz, George P.Stein, HerbertFlanigan, Peter M.Malek, Frederic V.Atkins, Oliver F. ("Ollie")James, E. Pendleton

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:20:07

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:41:43

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NARA Description:

On January 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Lt. Cmdr. James E. Sheehan, John Sheehan, Kathleen Sheehan, Kelly Sheehan, Kevin Sheehan, Eugene T. Sheehan, Edward J. Sheehan, Geneva Smith, Adm. Adm. C. D. Griffin, Louie B. Nunn, John Sherman Cooper, John J. Sparkman, Arthur F. Burns, J. L. Robertson, George W. Mitchell, J. Dewey Daane, Sherman J. Maisel, Andrew F. Brimmer, Robert Holland, George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein, Peter M. Flanigan, Frederic V. Malek, Oliver F. ("Ollie") Atkins, and E. Pendleton James met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:37 pm and 1:02 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 647-012 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 647-12

Date: January 13, 1972
Time: Unknown after 12:38 pm until 1:02 pm
Location: Oval Office

Stephen B. Bull met with unknown people; John E. Sheehan, Jean Sheehan, Kathleen Sheehan,
Kevin Sheehan, Kelly Sheehan, Eugene T. Sheehan, Edward J. Sheehan, Lt. Cdr. James E.
Sheehan, Geneva Smith, Admiral C. D. Griffin, Louie B. Nunn, John Sherman Cooper, John J.
Sparkman, Arthur F. Burns, J. L. Robertson, George W. Mitchell, J. Dewey Daane, Sherman J.
Maisel, Andrew F. Brimmer, Robert Holland, George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein, Peter M.
Flanigan, Frederic V. Malek, Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins, and E. Pendleton
James were present at an unknown time after 12:38 pm.

     Arrangements for swearing-in ceremony

The President entered at 12:40 pm.

     John Sheehan
          -Swearing in as member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
               [FRB]
          -Background
               -Kentucky
          -Age
               -Length of appointment

     FRB
           -Background of members
                -The President’s talk with Arthur F. Burns
                     -Economists
                -Representation of business by Sheehan
                -Burns, Shultz

     Oath of office

     Photographs of family

     Photographs of family and Burns
          -Senators and governors
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     Photographic session

     Burns

     Sheehan’s comments

     Presentation of gifts
          -Cufflinks
          -Bow pins

     Nunn
            -Finances
                 -1972 campaign

     [General conversation]

     [Photographic session]
          -Arrangements

     [General conversation]

     Sheehan's age

     FRB
            -Independence

Sheehan, et al., except Cooper, left at 12:54 pm.


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                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                    Conv. No. 647-12 (cont.)



    U. S. Senate
          -Middle-of-the-roaders
               -Support for the President
                    -Vietnam
                    -Forthcoming trips to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet
                          Union
                    -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
                    -Foreign aid
                    -Cooper-Franck F. Church amendment
                    -Vietnam
                          -US troop withdrawals
                                -Announcement
                                -Rate
          -Edmund S. Muskie
               -Vietnam

    Cooper's health

    Cooper's forthcoming retirement


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    Cooper's work in the Senate

    The Middle East
        -Cooper's recent trip to Israel and Egypt
        -Anwar El Sadat
              -Meeting
        -Israel
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                               Conv. No. 647-12 (cont.)


           -Sadat
                -Cooper’s view

     Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip to Africa

     India-Pakistan War
           -US policy
                 -Purposes
                 -Speech
           -Indira Gandhi
                 -Visit to US
                 -Lorraine Cooper


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Cooper left at 1:02 pm.