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Start Date: Monday, December 6, 1971 5:39 PM

End Date: Monday, December 6, 1971 5:59 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Woods, Rose MaryWhite House operatorButterfield, Alexander P.Young, Milton R.Bull, Stephen B.Edwards, WillardWhite House photographer[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:42:40

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:01:40

630-007.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, White House operator, Alexander P. Butterfield, Milton R. Young, Stephen B. Bull, Willard Edwards, the White House photographer, and unknown person(s) from a National Broadcasting Channel (NBC) film crew met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:39 pm to 12:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 630-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 630-007
Date: December 6, 1971
Time: 12:39 pm - 12:59 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
The President talked with the White House operator at 12:39 pm.
[Conversation No. 630-7A]
[See Conversation No. 16-21]
[End of telephone conversation]
Schedule
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
-Note to Herbert J. (“Jackie”) Gleason
-Dictation
-President’s schedule
-People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Golf tournament
-Timing
-Regrets from the President
-Boys’ Clubs of America
The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 12:39 pm and
12:49 pm.
[Conversation No. 630-7B]
[See Conversation No. 16-22]
[End of telephone conversation]
Gleason golf tournament
-Golf clubs
-Prize
-Winner
-Boys' Clubs of America
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Member of the board [?]
Heroic acts
-Letter from a grandmother
-Little boy saved family from fire
-Certificate of recognition
-Ohio
-Local paper
-Richard Johnson
-Saved family from train
-Certificate of recognition
-Number of people saved
-Note from the President
-President reminiscing about his youth
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 03/26/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[630-007-w001]
[Duration: 42s]
The President’s correspondence
-The President’s annual Christmas Seal contribution
-On behalf of Harriet McCormack
-Letter to John W. McCormack
-John W. McCormack
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Essays
-From young Arizona boys
-An attorney
-Letters from the President to the boys
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:39 pm.
Notes
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:49 pm.
Dictaphone
The President talked with the Milton R. Young between 12:49 pm and 12:50 pm.
[Conversation No. 630-7C]
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 03/26/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[630-007-w002]
[Duration: 6s]
[See Conversation No. 016-023]
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[End of telephone conversation]
Photographs
-Family portrait
Lunch
-Willard Edwards
-Attendance
Call from Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Butterfield entered at an unknown time after 12:50 pm.
Situation
-Disappointed seniors [?]
Butterfield left at an unknown time before 12:56 pm.
Woods’ list [?]
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:50 pm.
Schedule
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Meeting
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:56 pm.
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
Difficulties
President’s schedule
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
Veterans
-Disabled
-Paralyzed
-Compared to a blind boy
-Letter
Edwards entered at 12:56 pm; the White House photographer and an National Broadcasting
Company [NBC] file crew were present.
Edwards
-The President's photographer
-Edwards’ relationship with the President
-1948 Congressional race
-House Labor Committee
-Taft-Hartley
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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 03/26/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[630-007-w003]
[Duration: 32s]
Willard Edwards
-The President’s photographer
-Willard Edwards’s relationship with the President
-President’s 1960 presidential campaign
-President’s attitude after being defeated
-President’s birthday present for Willard Edwards
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
Willard Edwards
-Cuff links
-Wage-price freeze
Woods’ age
Woods and Edwards left at 12:59 pm.