Conversation: 282-026
Prev: 282-025 Next: 282-027Start Date: 20-Oct-1971 4:23 PM
End Date: 20-Oct-1971 5:16 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Moore, Richard A.; White House operator; Mitchell, John N.; Butterfield, Alexander P.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:25:31
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:15:31
NARA Description:
On October 20, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Richard A. Moore, White House operator, John N. Mitchell, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:23 pm to 5:16 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 282-026 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 282-26
Date: October 20, 1971
Time: 4:23 pm - 5:16 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Richard A. Moore.
Greetings
Supreme Court appointments
-Leaks
-White House staff
-American Bar Association [ABA]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 282-25 (cont.)
-Mildred L. Lillie
-John N. Mitchell
-Women candidates
-Qualifications
-Public reaction
-Lewis F. Powell
-Age
-Qualifications
-Southern background
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Qualifications
-Law background
-Senate
-Age
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-Supreme Court Justices
-Finances
-William O. Douglas
-Outside income
-Baker
-Age
-Possible tenure
-Contrasted with Potter Stewart
-William H. Mulligan
-Background qualifications
-New York
-Dean of Fordham Law School
-ABA
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 282-26 (cont.)
-Powell
-ABA's reaction
-Mulligan
-ABA
-Mulligan
-Powell
-Moore's conversation with Mitchell
-Analysis of candidates
-Herschel H. Friday
-Lillie
-Tennessee
-Baker
-Civil rights
-Congressional approval
-ABA
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press
-Role in appointment process
-Powell
-Ziegler
-Powell
-Mulligan
-Reaction by people in New York
-Fordham Law School
-Experience
-Mitchell
-John A. (“Jack”) Mulcahy
-Qualifications
-Powell
-Powell
-Baker
-William French Smith
-Qualifications
-Experience
-John M. Harlan
-Corporate law
-California
-Wife
-Kansas City, 1968
-Powell and Smith
-William H. Rehnquist
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 282-26 (cont.)
-Qualifications
-Possible ABA reaction
-Department of Justice position
-Stanford Law School
-Robert H. Jackson
-Department of Justice position
-ABA
-Mitchell’s view
-John W. Dean, III
-Arizona
-Barry M. Goldwater
-Stanford
-Smith
-Harvard
-Rehnquist
The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 4:21 pm and 4:44
pm.
[Conversation No. 282-26A]
[See Conversation No. 12-12]
[End of telephone conversation]
Supreme Court appointments
-Rehnquist
-Age
-Jackson
-Department of Justice position
-Compared with Byron R. ("Whizzer") White
The President talked with John N. Mitchell between 4:44 pm and 4:49 pm.
[Conversation No. 282-26B]
[See Conversation No. 12-13]
[End of telephone conversation]
-Powell
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
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Conv. No. 282-26 (cont.)
-Age
-Length of term
-Warren E. Burger
-Leaks
-John D. Ehrlichman
-White House staff
-Previous mistakes
-Rehnquist
-Qualifications of candidates
-New Jersey
-Illinois
-Mulligan
-Smith, Rehnquist
-Baker
-Leonard Garment
-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Mulligan
-Experience
-William J. Brennan, Douglas
-Powell and Baker
-South
-J. Strom Thurmond
-Virginia, Tennessee
-Busing issue
-Powell
-Baker
-Rehnquist
-Smith
-Ronald W. Reagan
-Powell
-Mitchell's forthcoming conversation with Lawrence E. Walsh
-Lillie
-Lillie
-Earl Adams’ opinion
-Possible appointment scenario
-Powell
-Baker
-Women
-The President's instructions to Mitchell
-Sylvia Bacon
-Circuit Court
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 282-26 (cont.)
-Law schools
-Television announcement
-Advantages compared with press conference
-Contents of announcement
-Qualifications of appointments
-The President's philosophy
-Powell
-Rehnquist
-Jackson
-Jackson
-Previous letter to the President
-David Capers [sp?]
-Career
-Nuremberg trials
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Background
Newsday articles
-Moore’s view
-Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
-Possible legal action
-Moore’s view
-Time magazine
-Robert G. ("Bobby") Baker
-The President's finances
-Possible Ehrlichman statement
-Law firm
-Fisher Island stocks
-Sale
-Moore
-Sale
-Ehrlichman
-Rebozo
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-The President's finances
-Real estate
The President's schedule
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 5:05 pm.
Items for the President's signature
Forthcoming White House event
-Guest list
-Frank Shakespeare
-Donald M. Kendall
Butterfield left at 5:07 pm.
Newsday articles
-Rebozo
Vietnam
-Announcement
-Prisoners of war [POWs]
-Michael J. Mansfield amendment
-POW issue
-Possible bombing
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] summit
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] summit
-Mary McGrory’s article
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
Supreme Court nominees
-Robert C. Byrd
-Democrats
-Lillie
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 282-26 (cont.)
-Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown
-Smith
-Academic background
Moore left at 5:16 pm.