Conversation: 015-196
Prev: 015-195 Next: 015-197Start Date: Thursday, December 2, 1971 2:45 PM
End Date: Thursday, December 2, 1971 2:59 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 05:40:29
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 05:54:48
NARA Description:
On December 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 9:45 am to 9:59 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 015-196 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 15-196
Date: December 2, 1971
Time: 9:45 am - 9:59 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
127
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 15-196 (cont.)
Haldeman talked with the President.
Tax Bill
-Campaign check-off provision
-Statement by the President
-Clark MacGregor
The President's trip to Florida
-Schedule
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Budget meetings
Speechwriting staff
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Conversation with Haldeman
-Strengthening staff
-Speech on aging
-Style of writing
-The President's speaking style
-Writing of presidential statements
-Writing of speeches
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Price
-Outlook on style
-Use of speech drafts done by the President
-John N. Mitchell
-Price
-[Richard A.?] Moore
-William L. Safire
-Moore
-Relations with Price
-Safire
-Style
-Price
-Duties
-Speech on aging
-Speech to 4-H conference
-Robert H. Finch
-Charles W. Colson's office
-James W. McLane and Kenneth S. Rietz[?]
-John K. Andrews, Jr.
128
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 15-196 (cont.)
-First Family duties
-Compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower's writers
-Price
-Leonard Garment and Moore
-Consultation quality
Tax Bill
-Statement by the President
-MacGregor
Campaign Reform Act
-Section 315
-Status
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Debate of candidates
-John F. Kennedy and Johnson
-Robert F. Kennedy
The President's speech to 4-H conference, 12/1
-News coverage
-Television compared to writing press
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Price
-Audience reaction
-Quotes