Conversation: 637-009
Prev: 637-008 Next: 637-010Start Date: Friday, December 10, 1971 3:37 PM
End Date: Friday, December 10, 1971 4:04 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:37:23
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:45:08
NARA Description:
On December 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:37 am and 11:04 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 637-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 637-9
Date: December 12, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:37 am and 11:04 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
The President's schedule
-Press conference [?]
-State Department
-Timing
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Ziegler's talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Timing
-The President’s forthcoming interview with Dan Rather
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 10:37 am.
Gift from Walter H. Annenberg
-Placement in Oval Office
-Picture of George Washington
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 11:04 am..
CBS
-Ziegler's talk with Haldeman
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-"A Day in the Life of the President"
-Timing
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Christmas special
-Timing
-Ziegler's talk with William Small [President, CBS News Division]
-CBS
-NBC
-"A Day in the Life of the President"
-News worthiness
-Gen. Charles A.J.M. de Gaulle
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 637-9 (cont.)
-News release
-NBC’s statement
-Leadership meetings
-National Security Council [NSC] meeting
-Henry A. Kissinger meeting
-Cabinet Room
-State dinner
-Pierre E. Trudeau meeting
-Optimism for NBC program
-Ziegler's talk with Charles Colson
-Meeting
-Program for incoming wires and phone calls to NBC
-Number
-Rerun
-Program defined as historical document
-Middle East
-Anwar el-Sadat
-India/Pakistan situation
-Camera movement
-Ziegler's briefing
-Kissinger
Ziegler left at an unknown time before 11:04 am.