Conversation: 489-023
Prev: 489-022 Next: 489-024Start Date: 26-Apr-1971 6:37 PM
End Date: 26-Apr-1971 6:45 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Bull, Stephen B.; Kissinger, Henry A.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 05:21:30
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 05:32:06
NARA Description:
On April 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 6:37 pm to 6:45 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 489-023 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 489-23
Date: April 26, 1971
Time: 6:37 pm - 6:45 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Conv. No. 489-21 (cont.)
President’s previous Chamber of Commerce speech
-Television news
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Haldeman’s view
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
President's schedule
-Upcoming press conference
-Plane
-Reading
-Henry A. Kissinger
Butterfield left at 6:38 pm.
Television news
-NBC
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-United Nations [UN] anniversary commission
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Demonstrators
-Congress
President's schedule
-Previous meeting with Senators
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:37 pm.
-Kissinger's location
Bull left at an unknown time before 6:40 pm.
President's previous meeting with Senators
-Russell B. Long
-Compared to Republican Senators
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-Hugh Scott
-Robert P. Griffin
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Welfare
-Press
-John F. Osborne
Conv. No. 489-23 (cont.)
Kissinger entered at 6:40 pm.
Kissinger's schedule
President's previous meeting with Long and Wallace F. Bennett
-Welfare
-John D. Ehrlichman
[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from
December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M.
Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration produced this
transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]
[End of transcript]
Senate
-Hubert H. Humphrey
The President, Haldeman and Kissinger left at 6:45 pm.