Conversation: 634-005
Prev: 634-004 Next: 634-006Start Date: Thursday, December 9, 1971 7:43 PM
End Date: Thursday, December 9, 1971 7:59 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Byrnes, John W.; [Unknown person(s)]; Bull, Stephen B.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:14:20
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:32:23
NARA Description:
On December 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, John W. Byrnes, unknown person(s), and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:43 pm to 2:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 634-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 634-5
Date: December 9, 1971
Time: 2:43 pm - 2:59 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
The President's schedule
-John B. Connally
-Upcoming meeting
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-Visit with Vladimir V. Matskevich
-Washington Special Actions Group [WSAG]
-Connally's office
-Notification
-Forthcoming meeting [with Jaime Arguelles]
-Talking points
-People's Republic of China [PRC] and USSR trips
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Delivery of unknown letter
-United Nations [UN] Security Council [?]
-Tax bill
-President’s upcoming trip to New York, December 18, 1971
-Haldeman's talk with Rose Mary Woods
-Dinner
-Theater
-Time of performance
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 634-5 (cont.)
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Florida
-Possible press conference
-Possible schedule conflicts
-India-Pakistan situation
-Azores
-Communications with the White House
-Transportation
-Airplanes
The President talked with John W. Byrnes between 2:46 pm and 2:48 pm.
[Conversation No. 634-5A]
[See Conversation No. 16-74]
[End of telephone conversation]
Economy
-Tax bill
-Christmas
-Sales
-Projections
-Gen. Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Hobart Rowen
-Democrats
-Phase II
-Inflation
-Growth
-International economy
-Inflation
-Status
-Unemployment
-Auto sales
-Rowen
Kissinger
-Schedule
-Kissinger preparedness in question
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 634-5 (cont.)
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Privacy]
[Duration: 37s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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-State Department
-Personnel
-Schedule
-Florida
-William P. Rogers
-Advantages
-Differences
-California
-The President’s schedule
-Crisis management
-Franklin D. Roosevelt and [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Rogers
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] conference
-Timing
-Airplanes
-Types of transport
-Florida
-Rogers, Connally and David M. Kennedy
-Possible attendance on flight
-Preferences
-Mrs. Nixon
-Cabinet officers
An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 2:59 pm.
The President's schedule
-Letter delivery
-Gen. Francisco Franco
-“Law of the Sea”
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 634-5 (cont.)
-Jaime Arguelles
-Haig
-Kissinger
-Haig
-USSR meeting
-Arguelles
-Letter
-Level of importance
-Haig
-Stephen B. Bull
-Talking points
Bull entered at an unknown time after 2:48 pm.
President Hubert Maga's arrival
-Photographs
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
Haldeman and Bull left at 2:59 pm.