Conversation No. 246-026
Date: April 7, 1971
Time: 4:30 pm - 5:05 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Melvin R. Laird
-Haldeman’s conversation with William E. Timmons
-Clark MacGregor
President’s schedule
-Allen J. Ellender
-Views
-Russell B. Long
-Big Six
-George H. Mahon
-President Pro Tempore
[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and 4:42 pm]
[Conversation No. 246-26A]
President’s schedule
-Ellender
-Instructions for Timmons
[End of telephone conversation]
Vietnam
-President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971
-Press briefing
-Henry A. Kissinger, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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Cabinet
-William P. Rogers
-Elliot L. Richardson
White House staff
-Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld
Congress
-President’s supporters
-Schedule
Cabinet
-Evaluated
-John B. Connally
-Maurice H. Stans
-George P. Shultz
-George W. Romney, James D. Hodgson
-John N. Mitchell
-Rogers, Laird, Richardson
-Rogers
-Calls to Haldeman
Business community
-Kissinger’s views
-Calls to President
President’s schedule
-Telephone calls after speech
White House staff
-Loyalty
-William L. Safire, Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Cabinet
-Evaluated
-Mitchell, Connally, Richardson
-Rogers
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
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-Tenure in office
-Possible future
-Television
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
Cable television
-President’s policy
-Hope
-Richard A. Moore
-Wife
Vice Presidency
-Connally
-Agnew
-Possible resignation
[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and 4:42
pm]
[Conversation No. 246-26B]
Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
John W. Dean, III
[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and
4:42 pm]
[Conversation No. 246-26C]
Call to Dean
[End of telephone conversation]
Vice Presidency
-Filling vacancies
-Congress
-Connally
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
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[The President talked with Dean between 4:42 pm and 4:44 pm]
[Conversation No. 246-26D]
Constitutional Amendment on Presidential succession
-Status
-President’s daughters
-Vice Presidency
-Congress
-President’s suggestions
[End of telephone conversation]
Dean
Vice Presidency
-Agnew
-Possible resignation
-Supreme Court
-Activities
-Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra, Hope
-Possible resignation
-Future
-Richardson
J. Edgar Hoover
-Tenure in office
-Agnew’s possible resignation
Opposition to administration
-President
-Agnew
-Polls
-Dwight D. Eisenhower and the President
-Adlai E. Stevenson, II
Agnew
-Approval by President
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
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-Possible second term
-President’s possible death
-Eisenhower
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Possible removal
-Connally
Connally’s schedule
-”Meet the Press”
-Rogers
-Herbert G. Klein
-Hugh Scott
-Head of Blue Cross
-George S. McGovern
National economy
-Stock market
-Connally
[Dean talked with the President between 4:51 pm and 4:52 pm]
[Conversation No. 246-26E]
Vice Presidential succession
[End of telephone conversation]
Vice Presidency
-Congress
-Succession Amendment
-Possible consequences
-Agnew
-Possible resignation
-Timing
-Summit
-Reasons
-Bryce N. Harlow’s possible role
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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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Vice Presidency
-Spiro T. Agnew
-1972 Republican National Convention
-Age
-Health
-1972 election
-Democratic candidates’ focus on Spiro T. Agnew
-Impact on President’s re-election
-Similarity with Dwight D. Eisenhower
-President’s close identification with Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Spiro T. Agnew’s identification with President
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s opinion
-Precedent for changing Vice President
-John B. Connally
-Need to change party registration
-Harry F. Byrd Democrats
-High points and low points
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Vietnam
-Polls
-Results
-President’s expectations
-Timing
-George H. Gallup
-Laos
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Wording of questions
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973
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President’s schedule
-Phone calls after forthcoming speech
-Women’s briefing, April 8, 1971
-Location
-Council on International Economic Policy
-Peter G. Peterson
President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971
-Close
-Commentators’ possible reaction
-Support
Haldeman left at 5:05 pm