Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 630 › Conversation 630-015

Nixon, Haldeman & Woods on Bermuda and Maurice Stans

Monday, December 6, 1971 · 3:30 PM–3:34 PM ET · Oval Office · 5 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Woods, Rose MaryConversation630-015 on Tape 630 (tape position 01:42:54–01:48:12)StartMonday, December 6, 1971 at 3:30 PMEndMonday, December 6, 1971 at 3:34 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 630-015 ↗

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President Nixon met with H. R. Haldeman and briefly spoke with Rose Mary Woods to coordinate scheduling and administrative details regarding upcoming diplomatic and social events. The discussion covered logistics for an upcoming Bermuda trip, a photo opportunity with Senator Strom Thurmond, and the reporting process for Maurice Stans following his visit to the USSR. Additionally, they addressed seating and invitation issues for a White House dinner involving George Shultz and the Brazilian delegation, emphasizing the need to manage professional optics and avoid unnecessary attendance at specific diplomatic meetings.

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Just one quick thing.
We just, on Bermuda, down at the bridge, I'm very anxious if you can say a government house.
I see you probably have to.
Put it in my book.
It gives you some of the privacy.
I put one thing down.
Strong Thurman wants to bring his baby into the picture.
I am talking to Paul.
It's Thursday.
I told Mark at 12 noon it would be a good time if he could bring him in.
This makes him a good man, a good type of man.
Another thing, uh, Stan wants to report to me on his trip to Russia.
I know, I've got that.
And it's, uh... How's he doing?
Well...
I don't know if we want to catch him.
Maybe we want to squeeze the Russians for the rest of the time.
We're going to raise a quarter more.
It's hard.
But ask Henry.
My view about it is to get the damn thing over with by doing it in Kansas City.
And then let me talk to Cole.
Well, that was our plan.
He's tried to move around.
He said he knows he's going to report to the cabinet.
He understood that that was suggested, but he still feels he needs to report to the president.
Okay.
Okay.
Did they finally work Schultz into that thing tonight?
I don't see a problem with Schultz.
He was censored because he was included.
John told me the way back, so I had to get to the room.
Somebody's off.
I don't know.
I guess I need to go home.
He's been there a great hundred times.
Were you able to work that Schultz thing out?
The dinner poster helped him.
How are you doing?
David's not coming.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it's too bad.
We're sorry.
He should be included in something in the future.
Now, look.
What you doing?
What is it?
For the Brazilians?
You had it for that purpose.
Now, the other thing is this.
I don't think that if you haven't filed anything, I don't think they should be included tomorrow.
You've got them tomorrow night also.
Yeah, because we've been heavily loathing, you know, they've been loathing.
I know, you know what I mean.
This is... All right.
Okay, fine.
All right, fine.
I understand.
That's the way it should be.
That's the way it should be.
I just want you to know, if you have a problem, I can pay you.
All right.
Okay.
Fine.
Why at all?
I guess that's whatever we worry about.
Well, as you said, well, it's noticed when he's not there, but it doesn't make any talk about this.
Now, about that, he's not going to go to these meetings.
You understand?
He's not going to go to the meetings.
See, that's the reason I didn't have him.
And I didn't put him on because he's not going to the British.
He's not going to the French.
He's not going to the British.
And that's not going to be a change on that, right?
Because we're not getting either one of these two state permits.
Yeah.
Yeah.
OK.

NARA Description

On December 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:30 pm to 3:34 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 630-015 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 630-015

Date: December 6, 1971
Time: 3:30 pm - 3:34 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

     The President's schedule
          -Bermuda trip
               -Location
          -Strom Thurmond
               -His baby daughter
                      -Picture
                            -Timing
                            -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
          -Maurice H. Stans’ report on trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
               -USSR
               -Henry A. Kissinger
                      -Haldeman’s forthcoming talk with Kissinger
               -Proposed cabinet meeting
                      -Need for closure
               -Stans’ reporting to the President
               -USSR
                      -Suggested plan
                      -Kissinger
               -President’s upcoming meeting with Stans
                      -Timing

     White House dinner for Pierre E. Trudeau, December 6, 1971
          -George P. Shultz
               -Invitation to dinner
               -John D. Ehrlichman

       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods at an unknown time between 3:30 pm and 3:34 pm.

[Conversation No. 630-15A]

     Dinner
          -Shultz
                -Invitation
                      -Problems
          -Brazilians

[End of telephone conversation]

     Dinner
          -Shultz
                -Absence at dinner
                     -Problems [?]
                     -British
                     -French

Haldeman left at 3:34 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 630-015, December 6, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/630-015 (accessed October 12, 2026).