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.
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 AidConversation 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
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.
Conversation No. 630-016
Date: December 6, 1971
Time: 3:35 pm - 3:58 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Myles J. Ambrose, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz and Egil
(“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.; the White House photographer and a National Broadcasting Company
[NBC] file crew were present at the beginning of the meeting.
Seating
-NBC film crew
Narcotics program
-Krogh's briefing paper
-Treatment of drug addicts
-Success
-Foreign governments
-Turkey
-Thailand
-Laos
-Drug pushers
-Prosecution
-Penalties
-Personnel
-Competition among government agencies
-Justice Department and Treasury Department
-Presidential directives
-A call to work together on the drug problem
-No “snow jobs”
-Jurisdictions
-Possible solutions
-Ports of entry
-Internally
-Internationally
-Solutions
-Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe
-Law enforcement responsibility
-Office Economic Opportunity [OEO] and National Institute of Health
[NIH]
-Law enforcement
-Justice Department and Treasury Department
-Responsibility equally shared
-Bureau of Customs
-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]
-Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs [BNDD]
-Grand jury
-Prosecution teams
-Ambrose
-Previous work
-Street sellers
-Impact on the community
-Federal and state
-Team work
-Foreign comparison
-Interdiction
-Success rate
-Grand jury
-Safeguard of civil liberties
-Addict peddlers
-Probable impact
-Local level
-Federal government
-Previous international involvement
-Turkey, Laos, Thailand
-Agreements
-Local law enforcement
-350,000 police officers
-New York
-Chicago; Los Angeles; Washington, DC
-Police corruption
-Problems
-Neglect
-Number of years
-Apathy
-Heroin pushers
-Effect on young people
-Spiritually, morally and physically
-Societies of the past
-Southern hemisphere
-Statistics
-Heroin seized
-Cost
-Convictions and arrests
-Increase
-Program purpose
-Decrease amount of heroin on the street
-New York Times story
-New York police department
-Dock strike
-Danger on the job
-Agent training
-Quality of training
-Unknown nature of addicts
-Federal-local cooperation
-Jurisdictions
-Exchanges of information
-Cost
-BNDD
-Bureau of Customs
-Shultz
-Rising costs
-IRS
-Lawyers
-New York grand jury
-Justice Department
-Law schools
-Young lawyers
-Criminal law
-Equal rights and environment
-Criminal law
-Encouragement to enter
-Teachers
-Political career
-Corporate law
-State Attorneys General
-Law schools
-Young lawyers
-Louie Lefkowitz [?]
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:35 pm.
The President's schedule
-Pierre E. Trudeau meeting
-Arrival time
Bull left at an unknown time before 3:58 pm.
Narcotics problem
-Law schools
-Encouragement
-Criminal law
-The President’s past experience
-John N. Mitchell
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Lack of quality people
-Need for quality people
-John H. Alexander
-Chicago and Los Angeles
-Leonard Garment
-Law firm
-Alexander
-Unknown person
Ambrose, et al. left at 3:58 pm.This transcript was generated automatically by AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite this transcript as authoritative. Consult the Finding Aid above for verified information.