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Conversation: 640-006

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Start Date: 22-Dec-1971 12:11 PM

End Date: 22-Dec-1971 12:31 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Bull, Stephen B.Flanigan, Peter M.Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:51:59

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:08:49

640a.mp3

640b.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 22, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Peter M. Flanigan, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:11 pm and 12:31 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 640-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 640-6

Date: December 22, 1971
Time: Unknown after 12:11 pm until 12:31 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

     President's schedule
          -Peter M. Flanigan
          -Anthony T. (“Tony”) Rossi and Achilles Mangelli

Bull left and Flanigan entered at 12:15 pm.

     Savings and Loans
          -James H. Edgerton
          -Effect of commission report
               -Flanigan's advice
          -Edgerton

     Ambassadorships
         -Japan
              -Frederick M. Eaton
              -Robert S. Ingersoll
                   -George P. Shultz [?]
                   -Relationship with the President
              -Reed O. Hunt
                                             18

                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                    Conv. No. 640-6 (cont.)


                     -Background
                     -Style
                     -Eaton
          -Spain
               -Wiley T. Buchanan, Jr.
                    -Style
                    -Compared to Cornelius V. (“Sonny”) Whitney
                    -Holland
                    -Lloyd I. Miller

H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 12:15 pm.

               -Henry L. Hillman
               -Robert W. Galvin
               -Hillman
                      -Elsie Hillman
                            -Nelson A. Rockefeller support
                                 -Pennsylvania
                      -John N. Mitchell
                      -Eaton
                            -Hubert H. Humphrey
                      -Arlen Specter and Arlin Adams
                      -Rockefeller
               -J. Fife Symington
               -Vincent W. de Roulet
               -Herbert W. Kalmbach
                                         19

                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                  Tape Subject Log
                                    (rev. 10/06)
                                                            Conv. No. 640-6 (cont.)


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[National Security]
[Duration: 14s ]


    SPAIN


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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              -Galvin
                    -Department of Defense [DOD]
                    -Reputation
              -Hillman
                    -Pennsylvania
              -Galvin
         -Australia
              -Jack Drown
                    -Henry A. Kissinger
                         -Helena (Colesie) Drown
                    -Kissinger’s opinion
              -William Liedtke, Jr.
              -Miller
                    -Cincinnati
                    -Support of the President
                    -Maurice H. Stans
              -John D. Lodge
                    -Argentina
              -Pay
              -Drown
              -Buchanan
              -Drown
              -Liedtke
              -Miller
         -Argentina
              -Galvin
                                              20

                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 640-6 (cont.)


                      -Oil
                            -Liedtke
                -Hillman
                -Spanish speaking ability
                      -Importance in Argentina
                -State Department
                -Ingersoll
                -Donald McI. Kendall
                      -Interest in Latin America
                -Compared to Brazil
                      -Description of job
                -[David] Kenneth Rush
                -Dick Watson
                      -Buchanan


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[National Security]
[Duration: 58s ]


     ARGENTINA


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2

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                -Kissinger input
                -State Department
                -Spanish speakers
                      -California
                            -Businessmen
                      -Drown

Flanigan left and Bull entered at 12:29 pm.

     Charles W. Colson
                                                21

                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                  Conv. No. 640-6 (cont.)



     President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:31 pm.

     President’s schedule
          -James Suffridge appointment with the President
                -George Meany
                      -Unknown person
                -Colson
                -Meany's location
          -Mitchell

Haldeman left at 12:31 pm.