Conversation: 589-001
Prev: 588-022 Next: 589-002Start Date: 12-Oct-1971 4:20 PM
End Date: 12-Oct-1971 4:37 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Mitchell, John N.; Ehrlichman, John D.; [Unknown person(s)];Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:00:33
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:17:43
NARA Description:
On October 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, John N. Mitchell, John D. Ehrlichman, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:20 pm and 4:37 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 589-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 589-1
Date: October 12, 1971
Time: Unknown between 4:20 pm and 4:37 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull, John N. Mitchell, and John D. Ehrlichman.
[This recording begins at an unknown time while conversation is in progress]
The President's schedule
Congressman F. Edward Hebert
-House Armed Services Committee
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:37 pm.
-Southern oratory
-Hebert
Supreme Court appointments
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Herschel H. Friday
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Religion
-Husband's ethnic background
-John A. Volpe
-Iowa
-Volpe
-Judicial experience
-Law school
-Record
-Reversals by the Supreme Court
-Criminal cases
-Conservative stance
-Busing
-Mithcell’s assessment
-The President’s view
-California Supreme Court
-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Friday
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:20 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 589-1 (cont.)
The President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Bull
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:37 pm.
Supreme Court appointments
-Friday
-Law firm
-Arkansas
-Clerk to Judge John E. Miller
-University of Arkansas
-American Bar Association [ABA] House of Delegates
-Board of Governors
-Conservative background
-Mitchell’s assessment
-Compared with Warren E. Burger
-Clients
-School boards
-Possible problem
-Thurgood Marshall
-John L. McClellan
-Democrat
-Law practice
-Pat Mahaffey
-Klu Klux Klan
-Wife
-William H. Rehnquist
-Clients
-Missouri Pacific Railroad
-John M. Harlan
-Burger
-Harry A. Blackmun
-Knowledge of business
-Harlan
-Age
-Clement F. Haynsworth
-Background check on credentials
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 589-1 (cont.)
-Lillie
-Investigation
-Husband
-Julius Caesar
-Friday
-Confirmation hearings
-Haynsworth hearings
-Possible question
-William O. Douglas
-Conservatives
-The President’s view
-Jew
-Edward H. Levi
Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:20 pm.
The President's schedule
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:37 pm.
Supreme Court appointment
-Lillie
-Sylvia Bacon
-Friday
-Charles Clark
-Herman E. Talmadge
-Robert C. Byrd
-Submission to ABA
-Background
-US attorney in Baltimore
-Daniel B. Brewster
-[Forename unknown] Long
-Brewster, Cyrus T. Anderson, Spiegel, Inc.
-Democrats
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Lawrence E. Walsh
-Lillie, Friday
-Bar
-William French Smith
-Byrd
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 589-1 (cont.)
-Press reports
-Friday
-Reaction of Senators
-Gordon L. Allott
-Republicans
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Robert P. Griffin
-Friday
-[Forename unknown] Rockefeller
The President et al. left at 4:37 pm.