Conversation: 304-016
Prev: 304-015 Next: 304-017Start Date: Monday, October 25, 1971 7:30 PM
End Date: Monday, October 25, 1971 8:35 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Ehrlichman, John D.Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:47:13
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:50:14
NARA Description:
On October 25, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:30 pm and 4:35 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 304-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 304-16
Date: October 25, 1971
Time: Unknown between 3:30 pm and 4:35 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
Weather
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Conv. No. 304-16 (cont.)
Demonstrations
-Rennie Davis
-Manolo Sanchez
-George Washington University
-White House
-Unknown North Vietnam leader
The President talked with an unknown person [John D. Ehrlichman ?] at an unknown time
between 3:30 pm and 3:35 pm
[Conversation No. 304-16A]
The President's schedule
[End of telephone conversation]
Booklets as gifts
-The President's instructions
Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Schedule
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Possible announcement
Ehrlichman entered at 3:35 pm.
Demonstrations
-Davis
-Permit
-John W. Dean, III
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meeting with George P. Shultz
Ehrlichman left at 3:37 pm.
The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Mrs. Nixon
-Secretaries
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Mrs. Nixon
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Conv. No. 304-16 (cont.)
-Chou En-lai, Mao Tse-tung
-Wives
-George E. Allen
-Mrs. Nixon
-Sentiments
-Possible itinerary
-Kissinger
Woods's conversation with unknown friend of Joseph Woods
-The President's attitude toward the press
Administration relations with the media
-Kissinger
-Background interviews
-Supreme Court
-Arlin M. Adams
-Hugh Scott
-Richard S. Schweiker
-Helen Thomas [?]
-Martha Mitchell
-Woods
Condolence instructions
-Donald McI. Kendall
-Father's death
Roger E. Johnson
-Richard Funkhouser
-The President's possible instructions to Woods
Kissinger
Peter M. Flanigan
-Ambassadorial interests
-Flanigan
The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Mrs. Nixon
-Kissinger
-Staff composition
-Support staff
-Mrs. Nixon
-Staff
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Conv. No. 304-16 (cont.)
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-John A. Scali
-Constance M. Stuart
-Ziegler
-Secret Service
-White House Communication Agency [WHCA]
-James D. (“Don”) Hughes
-Mrs. Nixon
The President's past efforts
The President's schedule
-Forthcoming visit of Josip Broz Tito
-Florida
-Preparation
-Mrs. Nixon
-Florida
-Italian Foreign Minister
-Columbus Day
-Haldeman
-White House staff vacation policies
-The President's instructions
-Haldeman
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Conv. No. 304-16 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 35m 40s ]
[An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 3:37 pm]
[The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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Public relations
-Logistics
-Charles W. Colson
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 4m 34s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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Rose Mary Woods left at an unknown time before 4:35 pm.
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