636–9

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]
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[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
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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
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-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
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-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.