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Conversation: 627-003

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Start Date: 1-Dec-1971 9:15 AM

End Date: 1-Dec-1971 10:05 AM

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

627a.mp3

627b.mp3

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.
                                                5

                           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
                                                 6

                           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.