Conversation: 622-012
Prev: 622-011 Next: 622-013Start Date: 22-Nov-1971 4:50 PM
End Date: 22-Nov-1971 5:05 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:38:39
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:04:36
NARA Description:
On November 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:50 pm to 5:05 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 622-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 622-12
Date: November 22, 1971
Time: 4:50 pm - 5:05 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
National Economy
John B. Connally
-Previous meeting with Charles W. Colson and Haldeman
-George Meany
-Pay Board
-Treatment of the President
-Previous press conference
-Meany
-Pay raise
-Pay Board
-Meany
-Continued participation
-Meany
-Possible White House attacks
-Relations with White House
-Role of the President
-Possible resignation from Pay Board
-White House reaction
-Sanctions
-George P. Shultz's views
-Connally's views
-The President's program
-Shultz's views
-Donald H. Rumsfeld's views
-Economic controls
-Sanctions
-Future
-Economic Stabilization Act
-Possible wage and price freeze
-Effects
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 622-12 (cont.)
Pending legislation
-Tax Bill
-Forthcoming vote
-Karl E. Mundt
-John C. Stennis
-Lawrence F. O'Brien
-The President’s view
-Robert J. Dole
-The President’s view
-Clark MacGregor
-Possible veto
-Conference
Vietnam
-Polls
-The President’s policy
-Possible release
-Timing
-Congress's schedule
The President’s schedule
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Conversation with the President
-Possible “Questions and Answers”
-Fiftieth anniversary of Reader's Digest
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Time
-Request for an interview
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Response
-Hedley W. Donovan
-“Man of the Year”
-Willy Brandt
-Donovan interview
-Lewis
-Timing
-Location
-Radio address
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Future
-MacGregor
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 622-12 (cont.)
-Two senators
-George D. Aiken
National economy
-The President's program
-Pay Board
-Labor participation
Polls
-Elmo Roper
-Compared with other polls
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Problems of nation
-Media treatment
The President's schedule
-Unknown group
-Connally
-Schedule
-Press conference
-Shultz
-Meeting with Shultz and Kissinger
Meany
-Connally's view
-Colson's view
The President's tenure in office
-Compared with John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
-Assassination
-Polls
-Approval rating
-Fluctuations
-Compared with the President
-Louis P. Harris and George H. Gallup
-Assassination
-Johnson
-Connally
-Injury
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 622-12 (cont.)
Congress
-MacGregor
The President's accomplishments
-Vietnam
India-Pakistan
-Haldeman’s view
The President's schedule
-Connally and Shultz
Haldeman left at 5:05 pm.