{"conversationCode":"601-035","tapeNumber":601,"conversationNumber":35,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-601-035","startDateTime":"1971-10-26T12:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-26T12:49:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Oct-1971","startTime":"8:35 AM","endDate":"26-Oct-1971","endTime":"8:49 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:35 am and 8:49 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 601-035 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 601-35\n\nDate: October 26, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:35 am and 8:49 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President spoke with White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 12-129]\n\n                                                              Conversation No. 601-36/602-1\n\nDate: October 26, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:35 am and 10:00 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.\n\n     Haldeman's schedule\n          -Disneyworld\n               -Ceremony\n               -Haldeman\n               -Roy O. Disney\n\n                                                                   Conv. No. 601-36/602-1 (cont.)\n\n                -Press coverage\n\nThe President spoke with William P. Rogers between 8:49 am and 8:55 am.\n\n[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1A]\n\n[See Conversation No. 12-130]\n\n[End of telephone conversation]\n\n     Rogers\n\n     The President's schedule\n          -Labor meeting\n          -Henry A. Kissinger\n          -John B. Connally\n               -Forthcoming Congressional testimony\n               -Budget meeting\n          -Kissinger\n               -Rogers\n               -Timing\n                      -Options\n\nThe President spoke with White House operator.\n\n[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1B]\n\n[See Conversation No. 12-131]\n\nThe President conferred with Haldeman during the telephone call.\n\n     The President's schedule\n          -Rogers\n          -Kissinger\n\nHaldeman spoke with Rogers.\n\n[End of telephone conversation]\n\n     North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]\n          -Ambassadorial appointment\n\n                                                           Conv. No. 601-36/602-1 (cont.)\n\nThe President's schedule\n     -Kissinger and Rogers\n          -Press statement\n     -The President’s trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]\n          -Length\n\nKissinger’s trip to PRC\n     -Secretarial staff\n\nThe President's forthcoming trip to the PRC\n     -Female staff\n     -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon\n     -Dwight L. Chapin\n     -Hangchow\n          -Mrs. Nixon\n     -Rose Mary Woods\n          -Press\n     -Kissinger’s trip\n          -Secretaries\n     -Logistics\n     -Mrs. Nixon\n     -Press coverage\n     -Adele (Langston) Rogers\n     -Mrs. Nixon\n          -Press coverage\n     -The President's role in approval of personnel\n          -Secret Service\n          -Military staff\n          -White House staff\n          -Press corps\n     -Mrs. Nixon\n          -Staff\n                 -Constance M. Stuart\n                 -Ronald L. Ziegler\n                 -J. Bruce Whelihan\n                 -Requirements\n     -Woods\n          -Assignment\n          -Kissinger\n     -Zosimo T. Monzon\n\n                                                           Conv. No. 601-36/602-1 (cont.)\n\n     -Kissinger\n          -Staff\n     -Rogers\n          -Secretarial staff\n          -Adele Rogers\n     -Arrival\n          -Mrs. Nixon\n                -Mrs. Chou En-Lai\n     -Secret Service\n     -Mrs. Nixon\n          -Press coverage\n                -The President’s view\n                -Francis Lewine\n     -Press\n          -John A. Scali\n          -Television crews\n          -The President’s view\n          -The President's role in approval of personnel\n                -Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White\n                      -Time-Life magazine\n                             -Possible effect\n                      -Ziegler\n                      -Scali\n\nPatrick J. Buchanan\n      -Schedule\n            -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]\n      -PRC trip\n            -Effect\n\nThe President's forthcoming trip to PRC\n     -Raymond K. Price, Jr.\n     -William L. Safire\n     -Buchanan\n     -Safire\n     -USSR trip\n           -Speechwriters\n     -Buchanan\n     -White House staff attendance\n     -Kissinger\n           -Memorandum by Haldeman\n\n                                                                 Conv. No. 601-36/602-1 (cont.)\n\n                     -Chapin\n           -Chinese position on ground station\n                -Networks\n                -Western Union, International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] Company\n\n     The President's schedule\n          -Kissinger\n\n     Kissinger\n          -Press contacts\n               -Backgrounders\n                     -The President’s view\n\n     Administration press contacts\n         -Ziegler\n         -Backgrounders\n               -The President’s view\n               -The President's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman\n\n     The President's schedule\n          -National Security Council [NSC]\n          -Rogers\n          -United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan\n               -Countries\n                      -Meetings with the President\n                           -African nations\n\nThis conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 10:00 am; it is continued on reel 602.","filename":["601-035.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:26:14","tapeEnd":"05:26:34","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"601-034","nextCode":"601-036","transcript":[{"start":4.37,"end":5.87,"text":"30 rogers, please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon requested that the White House operator connect him with Secretary of State William P. Rogers. This brief interaction served as a logistical step to facilitate direct communication between the President and his top diplomat. 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