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Conversation: 630-008

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

End Date: Monday, December 6, 1971 6:11 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Bull, Stephen B.Eisenhower, Julie NixonWhite House operator[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:01:40

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:14:41

630-008.mp3

NARA Description:

On December 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, White House operator, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:59 pm to 1:11 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 630-008 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 630-008
Date: December 6, 1971
Time: 12:59 pm - 1:11 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
Schedule
-Meeting with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Bull left and Julie Nixon Eisenhower entered.
Schedule
-Willard Edwards
-Chicago Tribune
-50th anniversary
-Lunch with Rose Mary Woods
-1960 and 1968 campaign
-Alger Hiss case
Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-North Carolina
-Research Center in Durham
-Proximity to Duke University
-Environment Protection Agency [EPA]
-Air pollution
-Pesticides
-Students from Duke University
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-Pollution issue
-Ranking of importance among college students
-Volunteers
-Duke University sites
-Chapel
-Law school
-The President's attendance at previous chapel services
-Lack of activities
-Professional football games
-President of the school
-Terry Sanford
-Governor of North Carolina
-Supporter of revenue sharing
-Talk with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Breakthroughs
-Congressional hearings
-Mark Clark
-Walter Reed Hospital
-Check-up
-Football games
-Duke University
-Purpose
Unknown person [?]
Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Timing
Lunch
Tricia Nixon Cox's schedule
-Salvation Army
-Time and place
-Humanitarian Award of the Decade
-Awarded to the President and Mrs. Nixon
The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:59 pm and
1:05 pm.
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
[Conversation No. 630-8A]
[See Conversation No. 16-24]
[End of telephone conversation]
Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-Duke University
-Television
-Raleigh, North Carolina
-Distance in relation to Duke University
-Number of miles
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 12:59 pm.
Items to complete a task [?]
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:05 pm.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-Television show in Raleigh
University of North Carolina
-Distance from Duke
-Raleigh
-Edward R.F. Cox
-Master’s degree from North Carolina State University
-Geology
Julie Nixon Eisenhower's degree
-Education
Decorating the White House
-Timing
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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]
[630-008-w001]
[Duration: 45s]
The President’s December 5 1971 dinner
-The President’s opinion
-Roast beef
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s opinion
-The President’s opinion
-Chef
-Compared to previous meals of roast beef
-Method of preparation
-The President’s request of Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Message for chef
-The President’s preference
-December 6 1971 dinner with Canadians
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The White House operator talked with the President at 1:05 pm.
[Conversation No. 630-8B]
[See Conversation No. 16-25]
[End of telephone conversation]
Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-Television in Raleigh
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II’s schedule
-Workers school
-Questions
-Non-political
-Partisan
-Viewing oneself on television
-President’s advice
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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
-Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding
-Commentators
-Presentation
-Caution
-Advice to Cabinet members, Congressmen, and Senators
-Questions
-American Federation of Labor and Congress of International
Organizations [AFL-CIO] conventions
-Criticism
-David Eisenhower
-India-Pakistan
Julie Nixon Eisenhower left at 1:11 pm.