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Conversation: 253-013

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Start Date: 26-May-1971 2:21 PM

End Date: 26-May-1971 3:12 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; Woods, Rose Mary; 

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:47:43

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:58:19

253a.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:21 pm and 3:12 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 253-013 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 253-13

Date: May 26, 1971
Time: Unknown between 2:21 pm and 3:12 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman; Rose Mary Woods can be heard in the
background

     Police shooting in New York , New York
          -John N. Mitchell
          -Richard S. Schweiker
          -Bobby G. Seale
                -Black Panthers
          -Washington, DC, New York, New York
          -Deceased
          -Police Benevolent Association [PBA]
          -J. Edgar Hoover
          -Hoover, Mitchell, Ehrlichman

     An unknown man

     President’s schedule
          -A 5:00 event
                -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

     Water
         -Memo from John C. Whitaker
         -Water shortages
         -Department of Interior
               -Funds
               -Compared with National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
         -A possible study
         -Rogers C. B. Morton
         -William T. Pecora
         -Interest
         -NASA
               -Moon shots
         -Possible proposal to Congress
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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 9/08)



               -Effect on Department of Natural Resources

     Camp Pendleton
         -Congressional action
         -F. Edward Hébert of Louisiana
              -Forthcoming conversations with President, Ehrlichman, Clark MacGregor
         -Unknown persons’ position on a beach
              -Officers’ Club
              -Oceanside, California beach property
                    -San Clemente

     Water
         -President’s action
         -Public interest
               -California, Texas
         -Use of applied science
               -Moon shots
         -Interior Department’s role
               -Morton
               -Research
         -NASA’s role
               -Compared with Interior Department, Bureau of Reclamation

     An unknown man
          -Ehrlichman’s forthcoming meeting
          -Possible recommendation

     President’s call to Haldeman

     President’s meeting with Ehrlichman