Conversation: 627-003
Prev: 627-002 Next: 627-004Start 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"); Kissinger, Henry A.; Bull, Stephen B.; Butterfield, Alexander P.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:45:47
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:07:14
NARA Description:
On December 1, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, Stephen B. Bull, 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 627-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 627-3
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.
Schedule
-Chicago
-Conflict
-National 4-H Congress
-National Association of Farm Editors
-American Farm Bureau
-President’s speech to the National 4-H Congress
-Meet and greet
-National Association of Farm Editors and the American Farm
Bureau
-John C. Whitaker
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 627-3 (cont.)
-Earl L. Butz
-Whitaker’s talk with Roger Clements
-Possible photo opportunity at the meet and greet
-Recognition
Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 9:15 am.
National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Allies
-Options
-European Security Conference
-William P. Rogers
-Preparatory meetings with the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics
[USSR]
-Berlin
-Agreement
-Western Deputy Foreign Ministers meeting
-Western position rectified
-Summit
-Exploratory talks
-Rogers
-Possible delay of explanatory talks
-Middle East
-USSR
-Rogers’ probable meeting with the President
-Golda Meir
-Joseph J. Sisco
-Yitzhak Rabin
-Los Angeles Times
-Proposal
-Agenda
-State Department
-USSR
-Negotiations
-Shift in US policy
-Rogers
-Lunch for Meir
-Meeting with Kissinger
Kissinger left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 627-3 (cont.)
Chicago
-Schedule
-Problems
Clark MacGregor
-Tax bill
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Pressure
-Auto dealers
-Potential problems of tax bill
-Kevin P. Phillips
-Labor unions
-Control of Presidential elections
-Campaign check off
-Public attitudes
-John B. Anderson
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:15 am.
Rogers's schedule
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.
MacGregor
-Foreign aid
-Office of Economic Opportunity [OEO]
-Appropriation
-Allen J. Ellender
-Trip to Africa
-Continuing resolution
-Butz
-Upcoming vote
Dr. Arthur A. Fletcher
-Resignation from the United Nations [UN] delegation
-United Negro College Fund [UNCF]
-Sense of helpfulness
-Importance in particular field
-Chairman of the Domestic Council Committee on Discrimination
-Post retained by Fletcher
-Letter to the President
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 627-3 (cont.)
-Negro colleges
-Ability to survive
-Black Professors
-White colleges
-Hiring tactics
-Criticism
Schedule
-Congress
-Kissinger
-Chicago speech
[Pause?]
American Pharmaceutical Association [?]
Bull entered at an unknown time after 9:15 am.
Schedule
-Chicago speech
Bull left and Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:05 am.
Pierre E. Trudeau dinner
-Guest list and table
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 10:10 am.
William F. (“Billy”) Graham's trip to Taiwan
-Trip cancelled
Trudeau dinner
Haldeman left at an unknown time before 10:10 am.