Conversation: 281-048
Prev: 281-047 Next: 281-049Start Date: 21-Oct-1971 5:06 PM
End Date: 21-Oct-1971 5:15 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 03:58:42
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:10:07
NARA Description:
On October 21, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:06 pm to 5:15 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 281-048 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 281-48
Date: October 21, 1971
Time: 5:06 pm - 5:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.
Ziegler's schedule
-John N. Mitchell
-Richard A. Moore
-Supreme Court nominations
-Selections
-Ziegler’s comments to the press
-Mitchell
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
The President's instructions for media briefing
-Supreme Court nominations
-Decision
-Timing
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 281-71 (cont.)
-Powell
-Mitchell
-Details of decision-making
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Mitchell
-Timing
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:06 pm.
Delivery of item
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.
Ziegler's forthcoming media briefing
-Mitchell
-ABA
-Presidential involvement
-Leaks
-Possibility of a woman appointee
-The President's instructions
-Qualifications
-Federal Court vacancies
-Mitchell
-Shirley M. Hufstedler
-Conversations in reaching decision on appointees
-Qualifications
-Political considerations
Ziegler left at 5:15 pm.