Conversation: 289-015
Prev: 289-014 Next: 289-016Start Date: 14-Oct-1971 2:30 PM
End Date: 14-Oct-1971 3:00 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.; Mitchell, John N.;Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:32:32
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:03:23
NARA Description:
On October 14, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and John N. Mitchell met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 289-015 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 289-15
Date: October 14, 1971
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with John D. Ehrlichman and John N. Mitchell.
Salutations
-Ehrlichman
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
Supreme Court appointments
-Herschel H. Friday
-John W. Dean, III
-Stance on issues
-Miranda decision
-Narcotics
-Juries
-Busing
-Integration
-Housing
-Support for the President
-Friday’s conversation
-Miranda Decision
-The President’s position
-Question of “conservative” status
-Dean’s view
-Social attitude
-Wife's interests
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon, Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Louis Ranson
-William H. Rehnquist's opinion
-Dean
-John L. McClellan
-Mitchell's conversation with McClellan
-Interest in Supreme Court appointments
-James O. Eastland’s view
-Ehrlichman's conversation with Dean
-Political philosophy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 289-15 (cont.)
-Rehnquist’s assessments
-Warren E. Burger, Harry A. Blackmun
-Integration
-Potter Stewart
-Pressures upon appointees
-Social situation
-Katharine L. Graham
-Criteria for nominees
-Importance of personal philosophy
-The President’s view
-John F. Kennedy
-Age of appointee
-Byron R. White
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Kleindienst
-Mitchell’s view
-The President’s legacy
-Mildred L. Lillie
-William J. Brennan
-William P. Rogers
-Herbert Brownell
-Terence Cardinal Cooke
-Francis Cardinal Spellman
-Catholic background
-William H. Mulligan
-Catholics
-Charles Clark
-Eastland
-Lewis F. Powell
-Age factor
-Age criteria
-The President’s view
-George A. Tesoro
-William [Surname unintelligible]
-Friday
-The President’s view
-Dean
-Business law
-Questioning of positions
-Little Rock
-Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 289-15 (cont.)
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Cartha D. (“Deke”) DeLoach
-Conversation with Mitchell
-Friday
-Schedule for action
-Rationale as to why a lawyer would take a case
-School board
-Desegregation cases
-Little Rock and Seattle
-Convictions
-Possible future votes on the Supreme Court
-Relationship with Burger
-Recommendation
-Blackmun
-Conversation with Dean
-Positions
-Senate confirmation
-Schedule for action
-Eastland
-Hearings
-Timing
-Appointment of woman
-Burger
-Demand for meeting with Mitchell
-Robert C. Byrd
-Friday
-John B. Connally
-Previous conversation with Burger
-Byrd
-Democrats
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Connally
Mansfield, Allen J. Ellender, Hugh Scott
-Charles McC. Mathias
-Kissinger
-Delivery of top secret documents to Senators
-Daniel Ellsberg
-J. William Fulbright
-Kissinger
-Research and Development [RAND] Corporation
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 289-15 (cont.)
-Fulbright
-Top secret documents
Supreme Court appointments
-Chief Justice
-The President's schedule
-Lillie
-Friday
-The President's position
-Byrd
-Lillie
-Appointment of Frances Perkins to Cabinet
-New York Times
-Mitchell’s forthcoming meeting Burger
-Schedule
-Timing
-Meeting with the President
-Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., G. Harrold Carswell
-Announcement
-Rehnquist
-Timing
-Burger
-Friday
-Wife
-United Jewish Appeal
-Retarded children
-Winthrop Rockefeller
-Opinion
-Political outlook
-Partisanship compared with philosophy
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Mitchell and Ehrlichman left at 3:00 pm.