Conversation: 627-001
Prev: 626-015 Next: 627-002Start Date: Wednesday, December 1, 1971 2:15 PM
End Date: Wednesday, December 1, 1971 3:05 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Butterfield, Alexander P.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:00:45
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:11:14
NARA Description:
On December 1, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:15 am and 10:05 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 627-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 627-1
Date: December 1, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:15 am and 10:05 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Alexander P. Butterfield.
Christmas season
-Congress
-Christmas
President's schedule
-Upcoming meetings
-Florida
-Willy Brandt
-Timing
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-State of the Union speech
-California trip dates
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip
-Unknown departure time
-Timing
[Pause]
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Timing
-Press conference in California
-Eisaku Sato meeting
-Announcement
-President’s schedule
-Mrs. Nixon’s arrival
-Conflict [?]
-President’s upcoming meeting with the Director of Central
Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-The President’s birthday
-Suggestions
-Congress
-Special session
-Italian meeting
-Kissinger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 627-1 (cont.)
-Timing
-State of the Union
-Potential Congressional problem
-Timing
-Congress
-President’s instructions to Haldeman
-Foreign visitors
-Mexico
-Argentina
-Barbados
-Upcoming foreign ministers meeting
-William P. Rogers
-Africans
-Europeans
-Mexicans
-Upcoming events
-Joseph M. Luns
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Spiro T. Agnew
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Schools
-Presidential visits [?]
-February
-Schedule conflict
-December, January, February [PRC]
-State of the Union
-March and April
-Publicity from PRC visit
-May
Trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Possible veterans meeting
-Unknown law school
Haldeman and Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)