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Conversation: 251-027

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Start Date: 29-Apr-1971 10:24 AM

End Date: 29-Apr-1971 10:48 AM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); 

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:29:16

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:39:12

251a.mp3

251b.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 10:24 am to 10:48 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 251-027 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 251-27

Date: April 29, 1971
Time: 10:24 am - 10:48 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

     Jayne B. Spain
          -Civil Service Commission
          -Public relations impact
          -Background
                -Education
          -President’s press conference
     Personnel
          -Frederic V. Malek

     Unknown appointee [Vicki L. Keller?]
         -Covington and Burling

     Unknown woman

[The President tried to make a telephone call; the call was incomplete]

     Vietnam
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                                        Tape Subject Log
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           -Withdrawal rate
                -Division size
                -1st Marine Division
           -John A. Scali
           -Division size
           -Withdrawal rate

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared Conv.
                                                                         under court
                                                                               No. 251-27
                                                                                     order from
                                                                                            (cont.)
December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access [SA] 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v.
James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration
produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

     Patrick J. Buchanan
           -Suggestion for President
                 -Response to critics

     Cabinet officers’ statements
          -Maurice H. Stans
          -William P. Rogers
          -Television interview
                -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
                -People’s Republic of China [PRC]
          -State Department
                -President’s instructions to Haldeman
                      -Rogers
                -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]

     Economic indicators
         -Confidence factor
         -Stock market
         -Consumer spending
         -Investment psychology
         -Stock market
               -Small investors
               -Mutual funds

     Agnew
         -Location

Haldeman left at 10:48 am
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 9/08)