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Start Date: 31-Jan-1972 5:49 PM

End Date: 31-Jan-1972 6:00 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Woods, Rose MaryButterfield, 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

661a.mp3

661b.mp3

661c.mp3

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
                                               44

                               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
                                               45

                               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
                                              46

                          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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[Duration: 12s ]


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Woods left at 6:00 pm.