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Conversation 015-041

TapeTape 15StartThursday, November 18, 1971 at 5:09 PMEndThursday, November 18, 1971 at 5:16 PMTape start time00:58:23Tape end time01:00:35ParticipantsRumsfeld, Donald H.;  White House operator;  [Unknown person(s)]Recording deviceWhite House Telephone
AudioNARA Description

On November 18, 1971, Donald H. Rumsfeld, White House operator, and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:09 pm and 5:16 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 015-041 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 15-41

Date: November 18, 1971
Time: Unknown between 5:09 pm and 5:16 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Donald H. Rumsfeld talked with the White House operator.

     Request for a call to his office

Rumsfeld talked with an unknown woman at an unknown time.

     Request to speak with Lee [Surname unknown]

Rumsfeld talked with Lee [Surname unknown] at an unknown time.

     The President's schedule
          -[Unintelligible] group of businessmen
               -Agenda
                      -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Dwight L. Chapin
               -Possible meeting with the President
               -Unknown New York business group
                -Agenda
                     -Roosevelt Room and Old Executive Office Building [EOB]
                     -Richard B. Cheney

     Rumsfeld's location
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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Mr. Rumsfeld's office.
Thank you.
Mr. Rumsfeld's office.
Lee, please.
It's Don.
One moment.
Yes.
Lee, prepare a submission to Haldeman or Chapin recommending or suggesting the possibility of a presidential drop-by for the maybe group.
In other words, the agenda would show where they're going to be at what time, and then the list of the people that are coming, and then the format in the front would be as per instructions.
The only additional comment that might be added would be that
This is a very high-powered Midwest business and financial group that the administration has done a good deal with respect to the New York group, and that this would be an easy and convenient way possibly to...
strengthen our support with these individuals in the Midwest.
You have to put times on that agenda.
Okay, it ought to be, when they're in the Roosevelt room, that ought to be the easiest for him, I would think.
Well, they're going to be in EOBs, just one floor above.
It doesn't make any difference all day long.
He could do it, and he wouldn't have to say a word.
Okay.
Just stop in while one of those other people are speaking and walk around the room and say hello, and it would be a great thing for him.
It's not a
I'm not making any kind of an urgent request.
It's just a thought.
It's an easy, cheap way to do some good for the cause on the economic side.
Okay.
And draft it up for Cheney's signature, I guess.
Okay.
Because I'm going to be busy when I leave here.
Okay.
And are you over at CLC now?
No, I'm still in the President's office.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
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