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Start Date: 7-May-1971 5:53 PM

End Date: 7-May-1971 6:17 PM

Participants:

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

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:48:04

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 05:03:29

495a.mp3

495b.mp3

495c.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:53 pm to 6:17 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 495-027 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 495-27

Date: May 7, 1971
Time: 5:53 pm - 6:17 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

     President's schedule

     David Packard
          -President's conversation with John B. Connally
          -Conversation with Connally
                -Packard's tenure
                -Packard's position on Lockheed
                -Packard's tenure
                -Lockheed's importance
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                                Tape Subject Log
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     -Schedule
     -Packard's future
           -Connally
           -President
     -Position on Lockheed
           -Connally
     -Mexico
                                                               Conv. No. 495-27 (cont.)
Connally
    -Meeting with President, May 8, 1971
    -May 7, 1971 schedule
    -European trip
    -Camp David
         -President's schedule
    -Idanell (Brill) (“Nellie”) Connally

President's schedule
     -Jerry V. Wilson meeting, May 8, 1971
            -Other attendees
                 -Military representatives
            -Photo arrangements
                 -Wilson, Walter E. Washington, and military men
            -Mayor Washington
                 -Role in Washington, D.C. demonstrations
                 -Value of photo with President
            -Value of photo of President and Wilson
            -Photo arrangements
                 -Mayor Washington

Business Council meeting
     -[Name unintelligible]
     -Peter M. Flanigan
     -Number of government officials present
     -John D. Ehrlichman
     -Peter G. Peterson
     -Connally
Connally
     -Government reorganization briefing
     -Usefulness as spokesman
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                         NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 9/08)



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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal-Returnable]
[Duration: 1m 20s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2                                        Conv. No. 495-27 (cont.)

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    Supersonic Transport [SST]
         -Possible calls by Warren G. (“Maggie”) Magnuson to House members
         -Lockheed
              -An unknown man
              -Jobs in California

    Louis B. Nunn
         -Possible appointment as Secretary of Agriculture
         -Background


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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal-Returnable]
[Duration: 27s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3

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    Spiro T. Agnew
         -Performance as Vice President
               -Staff
         -Compared with Connally

    William P. Rogers
         -Mitchell's view
         -Situation
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                                     Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 9/08)




     Revenue sharing
         -Connally
         -George P. Shultz and Ehrlichman

     President's schedule
          -Meeting with Wilson, May 8, 1971
                 -Time                                              Conv. No. 495-27 (cont.)
          -Patrick J. Buchanan-Shelley A. Scarney wedding, May 8, 1971
                 -Time
          -Press events
                 -White House Correspondents event
                 -White House Photographers Association
                 -[Group name unintelligible]
                 -Women's press
                 -National Press Club
                 -Lyndon B. Johnson[?]
                 -Ribbon cuttings

     Economy
         -Retail sales
              -Paul W. McCracken's report
         -Possible statement by President
              -Economic statistics

     Charles S. Rhyne's book on international law
          -Distribution[?]

Haldeman left at 6:17 pm.