Conversation No. 246-005
Date: April 7, 1971
Time: 10:55 am - 12:15 am
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
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Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ken Wood
Weather
Wood left at an unknown time before 10:59 am
Sergeant Karl Taylor
-Older son Karl (“Skipper”) Taylor, Jr.
-Family
[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 10:59
am]
[Conversation No. 246-5A]
Congressional Medal of Honor
-Sergeant Taylor
-Sons “Skipper” and Kevin Taylor
Taylor’s son
[End of telephone conversation]
Lieutenant William L Calley, Jr.
-Prosecutor, Captain Aubrey M. Daniel, III
-President’s possible conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.’s press conference April 7, 1971
-President’s responsibilities regarding final review
-Stanley R. Resor
-Haldeman’s possible call to Melvin R. Laird
-Tenure in office
-Prosecutor
-White House comments
-Ehrlichman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Ehrlichman
-New York Times, Washington Post
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
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-Prosecutor
-Calley case
-Review
-President’s call to Ehrlichman’s secretary
News stories
-Ziegler
-White House handling
[Rose Mary Woods talked with the President between 10:59 am and 11:00 am]
[Conversation No. 246-5B]
President’s forthcoming speech April 7, 1971
-Changes
-Unknown man
[End of telephone conversation]
Revenue sharing
[The President talked with Ehrlichman between 11:01 am and 11:07 am]
[Conversation No. 246-5C]
Calley
-Prosecutor’s letter
-President’s conversation with Haldeman
-Resor’s tenure in office
-Inaccuracies
-Prosecutor
-Robert Goralski
-President’s review
-Ziegler
-Background
Woods entered at 11:05 am
-Ziegler
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
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-President’s review
-Robert B. Semple, Jr., Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal
-Press coverage
-White House comments
-Ziegler
-Ehrlichman’s possible briefing
-George Herman
[End of telephone conversation]
President’s forthcoming Vietnam speech April 7, 1971
-Changes
-Distribution of copies
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Woods’ forthcoming conversation with Kissinger
Ziegler entered at 11:15 am
-Changes
Weather
Woods left at 11:16 am
President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971
-Length
-Text
-Kissinger
-Distribution
Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-President’s schedule
-William P. Rogers, Laird
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
-Kissinger
-Bipartisan meeting
-Congressional leaders
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
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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
-Schedule
-Senate Whips
-Messages to President
-President’s conversations
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Possible statements
-South Vietnam
Calley
-President’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-President’s policy
-Judicial process
-Appeal
-Prosecutor’s letter
-President’s policy
-Review
-Ehrlichman’s press briefing
-Ziegler’s forthcoming press briefing
-Prosecutor
-Possible White House comments
Ziegler left at 11:25 am
Ziegler
-Handling of press
-Ehrlichman
Calley
-Judicial process
-Possible White House involvement
-Daniel
President’s forthcoming Vietnam speech April 7, 1971
-Television
-Camera work
[Pause]
Calley
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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
-Taft’s forthcoming press conference
-Haldeman’s forthcoming call to Laird
-Resor’s tenure in office
Resor
-My Lai Massacre
-President’s schedule
[Pause]
President’s forthcoming Vietnam speech April 7, 1971
-Preparation
-Final copy
-Kissinger
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s style
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Thomas Jefferson
-Kissinger
-Editing
-Draft
-Winston Lord
Clark MacGregor
-Kissinger’s views
-Bryce N. Harlow
-William E. Timmons
-Role with administration
-Gerald R. Ford
-Peter H. Dominick
-Southern strategy
-Kissinger’s views
-Conversation with White House staff members
White House staff views
-Cambodia and Laos
-President’s church attendance
-Vietnam
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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
George Meany
-Attitude
Staff
Vietnam
-Negotiations
-North Vietnam
-Troop withdrawals
-President’s policy
-Ehrlichman’s comments April 7, 1971
-President’s forthcoming speech
-Troop withdrawals
-George D. Aiken
-Laird
-President’s policy
White House staff
-Review
-Peter G. Peterson
-Ehrlichman
-President’s policies
-Opposition
-Kissinger
-George P. Shultz
-Draftees
Pending legislation
-Education bill
-Possible veto
President’s forthcoming speech April 7, 1971
-Phone calls to President
-Cabinet
-Kissinger, Woods, Haldeman, and Charles W. Colson
-John B. Connally
-Preparation
-Kissinger’s forthcoming backgrounder
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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
-President’s efforts
-Consultation with Cabinet
-Laird
-Rogers
-Moorer
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:25 am
President’s schedule
-Shultz, Ehrlichman
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:49 am
National economy
-Stock market
President’s schedule
-Franco Maria Malfatti
-Council on International Economic Policy
-European Economic Community
-Connally
National economy
-Stock market
-Economic indicators
-Automobile sales
-Views of Haldeman’s friend from J. Walter Thompson Co.
-Sears, Roebuck & Co.
-Industrial production
-Construction
-Retail sales
President’s forthcoming speech April 7, 1971
-Possible effect
-War weariness
Shultz and Ehrlichman entered at 11:49 am
President’s 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
The President and Haldeman left at 11:49 am
[Pause]
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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 04/08/2019.]
[Unintelligible]
[246-005-w001]
[Duration: 2m 24s]
Sensitivity of unknown person
Harris polling
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The President entered at an unknown time after 11:49 am
Congress
Pending legislation
-Education bill
-Possible veto
-Cost
-William D. Hathaway
-Possible amendment
-Possible White House response
-Military pay
-House vote
-Cost
-Education bill
-Possible veto
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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
Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 11:50 am
President’s schedule
-Laird, Rogers, Kissinger
-Talking points
-Vietnam withdrawal
Kissinger left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm
Pending legislation
-Education bill
-Possible veto
-Military pay
-Transportation
-Urban renewal
-Revenue sharing
-Possible veto
-Budget
-President’s program
National economy
-Status
-Stock market
-Economic indicators
-Automobile sales
-Department store sales
-Home furnishings
-New York
-Southern California
-Stock market
-People’s actions
-Confidence
-Business magazines
-Washington Post, Washington Star, New York Times
-Stock market
-Administration’s economic policies
-Business writers
-Staff, Time, Life
-Southern California
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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
-Status
-Federal Reserve
-Federal budget
-Steadiness
-Public confidence
Pending legislation
-Education bill
-Effect on budget
-Possible veto
-Instruction for Ford
-Education lobby
-Possible veto
-Elliot L. Richardson’s forthcoming speech
-Instructions for Ford
-Possible motion to re-commit
-Tactics
-Hathaway’s amendment
-Provisions
-President’s policies
-Authorization
-Levels
-Possible amendments
J. Edgar Hoover
-Tenure in office
-Alger Hiss case
-Tom C. Clark, Harry S Truman
-Taps on President’s phone
-Surveillance of Congressmen
-[Thomas] Hale Boggs
-Charges
-Compared with Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy
-Allegations regarding State Department
-Communists
Hoover
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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
-Boggs
-Health
-Possible Congressional hearing
-Ehrlichman’s possible conversation with John N. Mitchell
-Possible hearings
Boggs
-Carl B. Albert’s conversation with MacGregor, April 6, 1971
-Health
-Wife
-President’s conversation with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Relationship with Wilbur D. Mills
Pending legislation
-Education bill
-Possible veto
-Military pay
Ehrlichman and Shultz left at 12:15 pm