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Start Date: 14-Apr-1971 3:07 PM

End Date: 14-Apr-1971 4:20 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Ziegler, Ronald L.

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:08:05

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:09:50

248a.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 14, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:07 pm and 4:20 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 248-010 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 248-10

Date: April 14, 1971
Time: Unknown between 3:07 pm and 4:20 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [Ronald L. Ziegler?]

     Polls
             -Approval of Vietnam War policy
                  -Timing
                  -George H. Gallup
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                         (rev. 9/08)



          -Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
               -Trial
          -Approval of war policy




                                                               Conversation
                                                               Conv. No. 248-10
                                                                            No. 248-11
                                                                                (cont.)

Date: April 14, 1971
Time: Unknown between 3:07 pm and 4:20 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman

     Ehrlichman’s memo on welfare
           -John B. Connally’s report from Texas
                 -Drought
                 -Reaction to welfare
           -Administration’s policy
           -Wilbur D. Mills
           -Addition to welfare rolls
           -Nelson A. Rockefeller and Ronald W. Reagan
           -Instructions to William L. Safire
           -President’s welfare program
                 -Purposes
                       -Employment
                 -Advertising
           -Reagan
           -Food stamps
           -Jobs
           -House Resolution [HR] 1
           -National Governors’ Conference
           -Revenue sharing
           -Need of support of governors
                 -Bipartisanship
           -President’s welfare program
                 -Welfare reform
                       -HR 1
                 -Status
                       -Lack of progress
           -Statistics
                                              7

                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 9/08)



          -Examples from Reagan’s speeches
          -Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
          -Patrick J. Buchanan and Safire
          -Instructions to Safire



                                                                Conv. No. 248-10 (cont.)