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Start Date: 30-Nov-1971 9:15 AM

End Date: 30-Nov-1971 9:45 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:26:07

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:49:40

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NARA Description:

On November 30, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:15 am to 9:45 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 626-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 626-3

Date: November 30, 1971
Time: 9:15 am - 9:45 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

     Pending legislation
          -Tax Bill
               -Check-off for political campaigns
               -Possible veto
                                       2

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                Tape Subject Log
                                  (rev. 10/06)
                                                                 Conv. No. 626-3 (cont.)


          -John O. Pastore's possible compromise
               -Tax credit
                     -Benefits to tax payers
          -Conference Committee report
               -House's possible action
          -Possible veto
               -Wilbur D. Mills
                     -Clark MacGregor's work

Earl L. Butz
      -Confirmation
           -Possible outcome of vote
           -Timing of vote
           -Press coverage

National economy
     -The President's program
           -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] News interviews
                -Laborers and labor leaders
                      -Ohio
                      -George Meany

Confirmations
     -Senate's schedule
          -Butz
          -Supreme Court

1973 budget
     -Federal pay raise
          -Vote

News summary
    -The President's schedule
         -Forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
         -John A. Scali
         -Dan Rather
         -Ronald L. Ziegler
         -Robert Pierpont
         -Staff's knowledge
               -White House Communications Agency [WHCA]
               -Policemen
                                         3

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. 10/06)
                                                               Conv. No. 626-3 (cont.)


                -Secret Service
          -Pierpoint's story
          -Ziegler's efforts
          -Rather and Pierpont

James Perry of National Observer
     -Past reporting of the President
     -Compared with [Forename unknown] Pearson [sp?] Wall Street Journal
     -Importance
           -The President’s view

Robert H. Finch and Herbert G. Klein
    -Activities in 1972
           -Haldeman’s view
    -Roles on White House staff

Maurice H. Stans's schedule
    -John B. Connally

Connally
    -News reports regarding role in administration
         -Arthur F. Burns
         -Effect
    -Previous conversation with Henry A. Kissinger
    -News reports regarding role in administration
         -Connally’s view
         -Previous conversations with George P. Shultz and Kissinger
               -Kissinger
                    -Haldeman’s view
                          -Burns
    -Previous meeting with Shultz and Kissinger
         -Leaks
               -Connally’s view
    -Previous conversation with Kissinger
         -American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations [AFL-
               CIO] convention
         -Possible effect
               -The President’s view
    -News reports
         -Haldeman’s view
               -Kissinger and Burns
                                                4

                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                        Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 10/06)
                                                                      Conv. No. 626-3 (cont.)


                        -Possible sources
                             -Peter G. Peterson
             -Possible conversation with Haldeman

     Leaks
          -White House response
               -Charles W. Yost

     Stans
             -Possible report to Cabinet on foreign trip
                  -Compared with Connally's report on foreign trip
                  -Unknown prime minister
                  -Giovanni Battista Motini [Pope Paul VI]

     The President's schedule
          -Time interview
               -Timing
                      -President’s forthcoming trip to New York
                      -Florida

     Christmas tree lighting ceremony
          -Julie Nixon Eisenhower
          -The Vice President [Spiro T. Agnew]
          -The President

Haldeman left at 9:45 am.