Conversation: 642-001
Prev: 641-010 Next: 642-002Start Date: Monday, January 3, 1972 2:07 AM
End Date: Monday, January 3, 1972 4:59 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Goode, Mark I.; Carruthers, William H.; Richardson, Donald W.; Wussler, Robert; Atkins, Oliver F. ("Ollie"); Rather, Dan; Manning, Gordon; Leonard, William A., II; Warren, Gerald L.Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:00:34
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:32:43
NARA Description:
On January 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Mark I. Goode, William H. Carruthers, Donald W. Richardson, Robert Wussler, Oliver F. ("Ollie") Atkins, Dan Rather, Gordon Manning, William A. Leonard, II, and Gerald L. Warren met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:07 pm and 11:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 642-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 642-1
Date: January 2, 1972
Time: 9:07 pm - unknown before 11:59 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Mark I. Goode, William H. Carruthers, Donald W. Richardson, Robert
Wussler, James Wall and members of the Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] technical crew.
Voice level
Lighting
Introductions
-Wussler
-Wall
-Previous work with the President during primaries
Camera angles
-Shots
The President, Goode and Carruthers left at an unknown time before 9:30 pm.
[General Conversation]
[Equipment noise]
The President, Goode and Carruthers and Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins entered at an unknown time
after 9:07 pm.
Photograph session
-Timing
Temperature in room
Microphones
Make-up
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 642-1 (cont.)
[General Conversation]
-Heat in room
-Opening remarks
Time until broadcast
Microphones
Photograph session
-Arrangements
-Timing
-Microphones
[General Conversation]
-Time
Time until broadcast
[General Conversation]
-The President’s schedule
Time until broadcast
Make-up
-Lighting
Time until broadcast
Goode, Carruthers, et al. left and Dan Rather entered at an unknown time after 9:07 pm.
Rather’s gratitude
California
The President was interviewed by Rather at 9:30 pm.
[A transcript of the following portion of the conversation appears in Public Papers of the
Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 1-17]
[End of transcribed portion]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 642-1 (cont.)
Recent interview
-“Ms.” Question
-The President’s forthcoming trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Rather
-Overtime
PRC trip
-Rather
-CBS
-Mike Wallace
-[Howard K.?] Smith
Gordon Manning, William A. Leonard, II, Gerald L. Warren, press photographers, Atkins and
members of the press entered at an unknown time after 9:30 pm.
Introductions
Recent interview
-Length
Photographers
[General Conversation]
-Wussler
Unknown event in 1958
Chicago
CBS staff scheduled to go to the PRC
-Peking
Football game, January 2, 1972
-Miami Dolphins
[General Conversation]
-Atkins
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 642-1 (cont.)
The President left at 10:34 pm.
[General Conversation]
The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.