Conversation No. 636-1

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:35 pm and 3:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-Remarks
	-Ronald L. Ziegler

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 3:37 pm.

Conversation No. 636-2

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:35 pm and 3:37 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:37 pm.

Conversation No. 636-3

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  3:37 pm - 3:45 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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Gift
	-[“Star of the President” crystal]
		-Design
	-Walter H. Annenberg
	-Call from Woods
	-Placement
	-Expense

The President's schedule
-Forthcoming meetings
-[Camp David] [?]
-Dinner
-[Unintelligible]
-[Camp David] [?]

	-Fog
-Dinner
-White House
	-President’s location

Glasses

Woods left at 3:45 pm.

Conversation No. 636-4

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  3:50 pm - 4:05 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

The President's schedule
-Call from Arthur F. Burns
-George P. Shultz

Rose Mary Woods entered at 3:50 pm.

The President's schedule
-Bill signing (Revenue Act of 1971)
-Shultz

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:05 pm.

[Rearrangement of decor]

Thelma. C. (“Pat”) Nixon

[Walter H. Annenber]
-Call from the President

[Rearrangement of décor]
	-Decisions

The President's schedule
-New York

[Unintelligible]

Picture
-Mrs. Nixon
-Print

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Picture 
	-Delivery to Mrs. Nixon

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 3:50 pm.

The President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:05 pm.

Pictures
-Rearrangement
-Little office

The President's schedule
-Call to Annenberg
-Timing
-Bill signing (Revenue Act of 1971)

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The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 3:50 pm and 4:04 pm; Woods and Sanchez can be heard in the background.

[Conversation No. 636-4A]

The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Day and time
-Jerrold L. Schecter interview
	-Proposed length
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Cambodia
-Rose Garden
-Timing
-The President’s upcoming telephone call to William H. Rehnquist

	Supreme Court
		-Appointment
			-Confirmation vote
				-Rehnquist
					-Timing
			-John W. Dean, III
		-Louis D. Brandeis

[End of telephone conversation]

Woods and Sanchez left at 4:05 pm.

Conversation No. 636-5

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:05 pm and 4:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull.

Bill signing ceremony
-Revenue Act of 1971
-Pens
-John B. Connally
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Arthur F. Burns
-Russell B. Long
	-Location
-Harry S. Dent

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:07 pm.

Conversation No. 636-6

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown after 4:05 pm until 4:07 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Signature

Bill signing (Revenue Act of 1971)

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:05 pm.

Bill signing ceremony

Call to Walter H. Annenberg
	-Timing

The President, Butterfield and Bull left at 4:07 pm.

Conversation No. 636-13

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:07 pm and 4:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

An agent talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 636-13A]

	The President’s location
		-Cabinet Room

[End of telephone conversation]

An agent talked with an unknown person.

[Conversation No. 636-13B]

	The President’s location
		-Cabinet Room

[End of telephone conversation]

Conversation No. 636-7

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:07 pm and 4:18 pm
Location:  Oval Office

An unknown woman met with an unknown man.

[Unintelligible]

	The President’s location
	-Cabinet Room

The unknown woman and the unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:18 pm.

Conversation No. 636-8

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  4:18 pm - 5:11 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is already in progress]

Color picture
-Location in the White House

John B. Connally entered at an unknown time after 4:18 pm.

	Woods’s schedule
		-Azores

The President and Connally talked with Walter Annenberg between 4:20 pm and 4:27 pm.

[Conversation No. 636-8A]

[See Conversation No. 16-80; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation; Manolo Sanchez can be heard in the background]

Woods left at 4:25 pm.

Annenberg
-Gift to the President
	-“Star of the President”
		-Steuben

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International monetary situation
-British
-French
		-Reforms

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:27 pm.

Gift from Annenberg
	-Design
-Location

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:36 pm.

Signing ceremony
-Revenue Act of 1971
-Ways and Means Committee
-Senate
	-Bi-partisanship
		-Praise from the President
-Wilbur D. Mills
	-Location

Connally's meeting with George P. Shultz
-Budget
-International monetary situation
	-Connally and Shultz’s view
-Arthur F. Burns
-Price of gold
	-US compared to Europe
-Meeting with the Canadians
	-Timing
-Japanese
	-Delegation in Hawaii
	-Unknown person’s trip to Japan
	-Edwin S. Cohen
	-John R. Petty
	-Paul A. Volcker
		-Azores
	-Trade Agreements
		-US representation in Japan
	-Agriculture
		-Potential negotiations

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:27 pm and 4:36 pm.

[Conversation No. 636-8B]

[See Conversation No. 16-81]

[End of telephone conversation]

Call from Burns

The President’s schedule
	-Forthcoming meetings

The President talked with Arthur Burns between 4:36 pm and 4:42 pm.

[Conversation No. 636-8C]

[See Conversation No. 16-82]

[End of telephone conversation]

International monetary situation
-French

Pay Board

Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Membership
-Frederic V. Malek's call to Connally
	-John E. Sheehan
		-Louisville
-Florida comptroller
-Minneapolis
-President’s instructions
	-Recommendation
		-Sheehan
-Appointment
-Comparison to Supreme Court
-Warren E. Burger
			-Comparison to Federal Communications Commission [FCC], Federal Trade Commission [FTC], Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]

Pay Board
-Pay increases
	-Relations to past decisions

Price Commission

Pay Board
-Quadriad meeting
-Connally’s conversation with Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Pay increases
	-Railroad brotherhoods
-Strikes
-Price Commission
	-Business actions
-Phase I
-Henry E. Ford, II
-Automobile sales
-Burns
-Labor
-Executive director
-Staff
	-Difficulties in organization
-George H. Boldt
-Phase II
-[Rumsfeld]
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
	-Burns
	-Activities justified

International monetary situation
-Azores trip
-President’s instructions
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Prime Minister of the Azores
-Kissinger’s meeting with Pompidou
-William P. Rogers
-Price of gold
	-Chances for an agreement
	-US-French posturing
-Japanese
-Kissinger-Pompidou meeting
-Edward R.G. Heath
	-Involvement in negotiations
		-France
-Germany
-Willy Brandt
		-Possible attitude
			-Kissinger
		-Berlin
		-European security conference
		-Revaluation of dollar
			-Amount
		-France
-Japan
-Trade negotiations
	-Negotiation style
-Compromise
-Monetary issues
-Three Point program
	-US prospects for a settlement

India-Pakistan situation
-East Pakistan
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
			-The President's meeting with [Vladimir V. Matskevich] and Yuli M. Vorontsov
			-Leonih I. Brezhnev

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-US-USSR relations
	-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Trade agreement
-Settlement in the Middle East
-European security conference
-World War II
-The President’s view
	-Cease-fire
	-West Pakistan
	-State Department
	-Possible summit
	-Ceasefire
-Carrier movement
-Jordanian planes

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-Brezhnev
	-Current relationship with US
		-Risk
-Connally’s view
	-East-West Pakistan split
		-Preservation
-Indonesia
-Arab countries
	-Possible effects
-PRC
-USSR
-West Pakistan
-American public opinion
	-Possible impact
-Letters
-Non-involvement
	-Connally’s talk with Kissinger
	-USSR
		-Negotiations
-Change in American psychology
-USSR
-Vietnam War

The President's accomplishments
	-Praise from Connally
-American psychology
	-Connally’s conversations
-Congress
-Domestic and foreign policy
		-Criticism
			-Effect

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William H. Rehnquist
-Joseph C. Kraft article
-Louis D. Brandeis
-Civil rights
-Herbert L. Block
	-Cartoons
	-Washington Post
		-“Letters to the Editors”
			-Kraft

Columns
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Tax bill
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Telephone conversation with Edwin S. Cohen

Connally left at 5:11 pm.

Conversation No. 636-9

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  5:11 pm - 5:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Alexander P. Butterfield.

Papers for signature

Votes

Postmaster General
	-Note

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

	Position of unknown item
		-Picture of George Washington

	Stephen B. Bull

	Robert P. Griffin

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 5:11 pm and 5:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 636-9A]

[See Conversation No. 16-83]

[End of telephone conversation]

William H. Rehnquist confirmation
	-Number of votes

The President talked with Griffin between 5:15 pm and 5:17 pm.

[Conversation No. 636-9B]

[See Conversation No. 16-84]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with the White House operator at 5:17 pm.

	Charles Evans Hughes

[Conversation No. 636-9C]

[See Conversation No. 16-85]

[End of telephone conversation]

Rehnquist confirmation
	-William E. Timmons

Democrats
	-Speaking out

The President talked with Rehnquist between 5:18 pm and 5:20 pm.

[Conversation No. 636-9D]

[See Conversation No. 16-86]

[End of telephone conversation]

Society
	-Pressures

Washington Post
	-Editorials
		-Joseph C. Kraft article on Rehnquist

Stock market figures
-Tax bill passage
	-Numbers
-French
-John B. Connally
				-Proposed deal

Economy
-Businessmen
-Pay Board
-Price Commission
	-State of economy
-Connally
-Henry E. Ford II
-Public psychology
-Unemployment
	-Predicted numbers
		-[Forename unknown] Murphy’s views
-Auto production
	-Projected numbers
-Lide A. Iacocca
-Ford
-Meetings
	-Social events with the Ford family
-Iacocca
-Business style
-Influence
-Congress
-War

The President's schedule
-Key Biscayne
	-Timing
-Weather
-California
	-Temperature range for January
	-Santa Ana
		-Preference for Key Biscayne
-Washington
-Christmas shopping
	-Staff
-Cabinet
-Camp David
-Florida
-California
-Walter H. Annenberg
	-Palm Springs, Florida
-California
	-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Proposed activities
-Weather conditions

Unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 5:38 pm.

Rehnquist confirmation
-Comparison of close votes in the past
-Justice Nathan Clifford, 1857
-Justice Stanley Matthews, 1881
-Justice Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, 1887

Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:20 pm.

The President's schedule
	-Jerrold L. Schecter

Bull left at an unknown time before 5:38 pm.

Peace Corps
	-Timmons
-Otto E. Passman
-George P. Shultz
-Call to Timmons
-Presidential letter
-Support of Committee bill
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Joseph H. Blatchford
-Liberal Republicans
-Letter from the President
	-Possible maneuvering of bill
-Shultz
	-Involvement
-Timmons
-Congress

Budget
-India
-Aid
-Shultz And Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Bureaucracy
-Leaks

Connally
	-Conversation with the President
-Democrats

	Rose Mary Woods

Haldeman left at 5:34 pm.

Conversation No. 636-10

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:34 pm and 5:38 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

The President's schedule
-Jerrold L. Schecter interview
	-Timing
-H. R. Haldeman

Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
	-Andrews Air Force Base

Gift from Walter H. Annenberg
	-“Star of the President”
-Location
-John B. Connally
-Annenberg 

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Woods left at 5:38 pm.

Conversation No. 636-11

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  5:38 pm - 6:27 pm
Location:  Oval Office

The President met with Jerrold L. Schecter; the White House photographer was present at the beginning of the meeting.

Photographs
	-Types

Tour of rooms

The President 
	-Remarks from Schecter

The White House
-History
-Abraham Lincoln bust
	-Unknown sculptor
-Winston S. Churchill

Presidential portrait and bust
	-Sculptor
		-The President’s relationship with
-Photographer

Oval Office history
	-The President’s past experiences
-Harry S Truman
			-Meeting with Charles J. Kersten, Congressman from Wisconsin, 1948, and the President
-Eastern Europe
	-East-West relations
-Ambassadors
	-Polish-Americans
-The President’s meetings with Democrats
-Globe
-Marshall Plan
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Oval Office “effect”
	-The President’s recollection as Vice President
-John F. Kennedy
-Call to the President
-Bay of Pigs
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Meetings
-Other locations
-Executive Office Building [EOB] office
-Camp David
-Key Biscayne and San Clemente
-Oval Office “effect”
-Johnson
-Use of Oval Office
-Televisions
	-Lack of them
-Examples of hoe the President receives news
-Summary
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-News programs
	“Meet the Press”
-Weekend reading
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-William L. Safire
-Al [Surname unknown]
						-President’s reading choices
							-Commentary
							-Time
-New Republic
-National Review
-The London Observer
	-Importance to the President

Television
-President’s advice
	-Watching oneself

Decision-making process
	-Clarity

Oval Office
-Cleanliness
-The President's desk
-EOB office
-Camp David
	-Exceptions

Physical and mental condition of the President
	-Essential for the job
-John Connally

Decision-making process
	-Consensus
	-Oval Office, Lincoln Sitting Room, Camp David, EOB

Delegation of authority
-Grover Cleveland
-Ability to delegate authority
-Comparisons
-Important decisions
	-President’s advice

Press
	-The President’s feelings
	-Attempts to accept press criticism
		-Not take it personally

News summary
-Issues compared to personal material

The President's reading habits
-History
-Biography
-Carl Sandburg's Lincoln
-Churchill
-Benjamin Disraeli
-Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt
-[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
-Andrew Jackson
-Churchill
-Blake’s Disraeli
-Diary
-Dictaphone
-Rose Mary Woods

Notes
	-President’s schedule
		-Upcoming trip to the Waldorf Hotel
-[Forename unknown] Bell
-Death
-Wife and daughter
	-The President’s expresses sympathy
-Night
-Reminders

Dictation
-Woods
-Marjorie P. Acker
-The President as Congressman

Decisions made in the Oval Office
-Cambodia
-Final order
-EOB office
-Camp David
-November 3, 1969 speech on Vietnam
-EOB
-Camp David
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John D. Ehrlichman
	-Part of decision making process
-Legislative matter
-Clark MacGregor
	-EOB office
-Campaign bill

Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
	-Types of conversation between the President and Mrs. Nixon
-White House decoration
-Delegation of authority
-The President
	-Menus
-Wines

Entertainment at the White House
-Woods
	-Guest lists
		-Other responsibilities

Wines
-The President's knowledge
	-International experiences

The President's diet
	-Restaurants compared to wine
	-“Spartan” existence

Relaxation
	-Camp David
-Florida
-California

Decorum as President
	-Dignity
-Humanizing the Presidency
-Eisenhower
	-Military background

The President as Congressman
-Becoming President
-Selection as Vice President
	-Unpredictability

Use of the EOB office
-Informal compared to formal
-Oval Office
	-Quietness
-Camp David
-California
-Florida

Events of last few months
		-People’s Republic of China [PRC] and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR Summits
-Economics
	-Vietnam
	-Inflation, unemployment

Press
	-Relationship

Congressional criticism

Decision making
	-Hazards
	-Anger

Washington Post and the New York Times
		-Reading habits
		-Herbert L. Block

Mental discipline
	-Development
		-Campaigning
			-Victory and defeast

Foreign leaders

Pictures in the Oval Office
-Rembrandt Peale
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Tour of other rooms

The President and Schecter left at 6:27 pm.

Conversation No. 636-12

Date:  December 10, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:27 pm and 8:34 pm
Location:  Oval Office

Unknown men met.

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The unknown men left at an unknown time before 8:34 pm.