Conversation: 661-012
Prev: 661-011 Next: 661-013Start Date: Monday, January 31, 1972 10:49 PM
End Date: Monday, January 31, 1972 11:00 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)]Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:15:53
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:28:17
NARA Description:
On January 31, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Alexander P. Butterfield, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:49 pm to 6:00 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 661-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 661-12
Date: January 31, 1972
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 661-11 (cont.)
Time: 5:49 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
Review of gifts
-Congressional medals
The President’s schedule
-John W. Dean III request for signature
-Supreme Court
-Fred F. Fielding
-Farewell ceremony for Maj. Gen. James D. (“Don”) Hughes, January 31, 1972
-Hughes’s family
-Melvin R. Laird
-Mrs. Hughes [?]
Busts
-John Foster Dulles
-David Waters
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
-Winston Churchill
-Waters
Weather
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:50 pm.
Prayer breakfast
-Length of the President’s remarks
Butterfield left at 5:52 pm.
[The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 5:52 pm and
5:55 pm.]
[Conversation No. 661-12A]
Prayer breakfast
-Length of the President’s remarks
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 661-12 (cont.)
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s schedule
-Prayer breakfast
-Warren E. Burger speech
-Length
-Toast
-Toasts
-Scripture reading
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower
-Augusta, Georgia
-European guests
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:52 pm.
Item for the President
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:55 pm.
The President’s schedule
-Demands on the President’s time
-Charitable groups
Death of Dudley Swim
-Age
-Aging statesmen
-Thomas E. Dewey
-Dean G. Acheson
-Ann [Surname unknown]
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:55 pm.
Remarks for prayer breakfast
-Length
-The President’s talk with Haldeman
Butterfield left at 5:55 pm.
Prayer breakfast, 1971
-Program
-Length of speeches and readings
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 661-12 (cont.)
-Charles M. Teague
-Marvin L. Esch
-Walter E. Washington
-Length
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Speeches
-Anachronistic nature
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Woods left at 6:00 pm.