Conversation: 647-012
Prev: 647-011 Next: 647-013Start Date: Thursday, January 13, 1972 5:37 PM
End Date: Thursday, January 13, 1972 6:02 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sheehan, James E. (Lt. Cmdr.); Sheehan, John; Sheehan, Kathleen; Sheehan, Kelly; Sheehan, Kevin; Sheehan, Eugene T.; Sheehan, Edward J.; Smith, Geneva; Griffin, C. D. (Adm.); Nunn, Louie B.; Cooper, John Sherman; Sparkman, John J.; Burns, Arthur F.; Robertson, J. L.; Mitchell, George W.; Daane, J. Dewey; Maisel, Sherman J.; Brimmer, Andrew F.; Holland, Robert; Shultz, George P.; Stein, Herbert; Flanigan, Peter M.; Malek, Frederic V.; Atkins, Oliver F. ("Ollie"); James, E. PendletonRecording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:20:07
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:41:43
NARA Description:
On January 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Lt. Cmdr. James E. Sheehan, John Sheehan, Kathleen Sheehan, Kelly Sheehan, Kevin Sheehan, Eugene T. Sheehan, Edward J. Sheehan, Geneva Smith, Adm. Adm. C. D. Griffin, Louie B. Nunn, John Sherman Cooper, John J. Sparkman, Arthur F. Burns, J. L. Robertson, George W. Mitchell, J. Dewey Daane, Sherman J. Maisel, Andrew F. Brimmer, Robert Holland, George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein, Peter M. Flanigan, Frederic V. Malek, Oliver F. ("Ollie") Atkins, and E. Pendleton James met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:37 pm and 1:02 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 647-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 647-12
Date: January 13, 1972
Time: Unknown after 12:38 pm until 1:02 pm
Location: Oval Office
Stephen B. Bull met with unknown people; John E. Sheehan, Jean Sheehan, Kathleen Sheehan,
Kevin Sheehan, Kelly Sheehan, Eugene T. Sheehan, Edward J. Sheehan, Lt. Cdr. James E.
Sheehan, Geneva Smith, Admiral C. D. Griffin, Louie B. Nunn, John Sherman Cooper, John J.
Sparkman, Arthur F. Burns, J. L. Robertson, George W. Mitchell, J. Dewey Daane, Sherman J.
Maisel, Andrew F. Brimmer, Robert Holland, George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein, Peter M.
Flanigan, Frederic V. Malek, Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins, and E. Pendleton
James were present at an unknown time after 12:38 pm.
Arrangements for swearing-in ceremony
The President entered at 12:40 pm.
John Sheehan
-Swearing in as member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
[FRB]
-Background
-Kentucky
-Age
-Length of appointment
FRB
-Background of members
-The President’s talk with Arthur F. Burns
-Economists
-Representation of business by Sheehan
-Burns, Shultz
Oath of office
Photographs of family
Photographs of family and Burns
-Senators and governors
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 647-12 (cont.)
Photographic session
Burns
Sheehan’s comments
Presentation of gifts
-Cufflinks
-Bow pins
Nunn
-Finances
-1972 campaign
[General conversation]
[Photographic session]
-Arrangements
[General conversation]
Sheehan's age
FRB
-Independence
Sheehan, et al., except Cooper, left at 12:54 pm.
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[Duration: 27s ]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 647-12 (cont.)
U. S. Senate
-Middle-of-the-roaders
-Support for the President
-Vietnam
-Forthcoming trips to the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Soviet
Union
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Foreign aid
-Cooper-Franck F. Church amendment
-Vietnam
-US troop withdrawals
-Announcement
-Rate
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Vietnam
Cooper's health
Cooper's forthcoming retirement
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[Duration: 1m 38s ]
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Cooper's work in the Senate
The Middle East
-Cooper's recent trip to Israel and Egypt
-Anwar El Sadat
-Meeting
-Israel
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 647-12 (cont.)
-Sadat
-Cooper’s view
Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip to Africa
India-Pakistan War
-US policy
-Purposes
-Speech
-Indira Gandhi
-Visit to US
-Lorraine Cooper
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5
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[Duration: 27s ]
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Cooper left at 1:02 pm.