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Start Date: 20-Jul-1971 1:31 PM

End Date: 20-Jul-1971 1:58 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:00:30

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:26:22

263a.mp3

263b.mp3

NARA Description:

On July 20, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:31 pm and 1:58 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 263-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 263-1

Date: July 20, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:31 pm and 1:58 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman; this recording begins at an unknown time
while the meeting is in progress.

     Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
          -Secret Service agents
          -Bryce N. Harlow
          -Staff
          -Attitude towards duties
          -The People's Republic of China [PRC]

     John B. Connally
          -The President's July 19, 1971 meeting
          -Secretary of State
          -Position in Cabinet
                -George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman
                -Handling of the Treasury Department
                      -Ehrlichman's forthcoming conversation
                      -Personnel
                            -Hiring of secretary
                            -White House staff

     [Pause]

          -Department of the Treasury
                -Personnel questions
                     -Charls E. Walker's conversation
          -National Security Council [NSC] meeting
                -Representative
          -Briefing by Henry A. Kissinger

     Clark MacGregor
          -Members of Congress
              -Attitude during leaders meeting
                    -Republican attitude compared to Democrats
                                       2

                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. 10/08)



Marine Corps Commandant
     -Appointee recommendation
          -Kissinger, Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
          -Leonard F. Chapman, Robert E. Cushman, Jr.

Congress
    -Lockheed bailout
         -David Packard                                        Conv. No. 263-1 (cont.)
              -Testimony before Congress
                    -Connally

Agnew
    -Connally

Meeting with Republican Congressional leaders
     -Ehrlichman's (?) comments
           -Presidential leadership issue
                 -US initiative on the PRC
                 -Mary McGrory's comments
                 -Connally
                       -Democrats
                 -Patrick J. Buchanan
                 -George H.W. Bush (?)

Agnew's trip
    -President’s criticism
    -Malik Faisal Ibn Abd Al-aziz Al-saud, Prince Fahd, Jomo Kenyatta
    -Reports by the press
    -Blacks
           -Agnew's comments
                 -Kenyatta
           -African Black leaders

Blacks
     -US population
           -“Rednecks”
     -African Blacks
                                                3

                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/08)



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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 44s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1                                         Conv. No. 263-1 (cont.)

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Haldeman left at 1:58 pm.