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Conversation: 650-002

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Start Date: 18-Jan-1972 9:48 AM

End Date: 18-Jan-1972 10:05 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Butterfield, Alexander P.Woods, Rose Mary

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:20:05

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:32:05

650a.mp3

650b.mp3

650c.mp3

650d.mp3

NARA Description:

On January 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:48 am to 10:05 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 650-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 650-2

Date: January 18, 1972
Time: 9:48 am - 10:05 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

     President's schedule
          -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s schedule
                 -Talk at Cathedral School
          -John B. Connally's memorandum on Chile
                 -Treasury Department
                 -Peter G. Peterson
                       -Paris monetary group session
                 -Paul A. Volcker

Rose Mary Woods entered at 9:53 am.

Butterfield left at 9:54 am
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                         Tape Subject Log
                                           (rev. 10/06)
                                                                      Conv. No. 650-2 (cont.)


    Item for the President's signature

    Correspondence
         -Hal [Surname unintelligible]
               -L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III’s request for letter


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 1s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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    President's schedule
         -Alice Roosevelt Longworth
                -Christmas gift of elephant figure
                     -Telephone call
                     -Thank you letter
         -J. Edgar Hoover

    Wiley T. Buchanan
         -Possible ambassadorship to Spain
               -Peter M. Flanigan
         -Wife
         -State Department

    Copy of draft of State of the Union speech
        -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
              -Deadline for delivery of final copy to the President
                     -William L. Safire
                                              3

                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                      Conv. No. 650-2 (cont.)


    Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's trip to Africa
         -Monday magazine
              -Preparation of article for mailing
         -Editorials


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 11s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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               -Responsibility for compilation
                     -Charles W. Colson
                     -Lyndon K. (“Mort”) Allin
                     -Herbert G. Klein
         -Television coverage
         -Editorials
         -Newspaper photographs
               -New York Times
         -Allin
         -Colson
               -Assignment for staff member
         -Memorandum
               -Distribution
                     -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, Allin, Colson, the President
                     -Constance M. Stuart
                           -Mrs. Nixon
                                                4

                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                 Conv. No. 650-2 (cont.)


     Speech draft
          -Price
          -Safire
          -Allin's duties

Woods left at 10:05 am.