Conversation No. 599-10

Date: October 22, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:19 am and 11:43 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ronald L. Ziegler.
[This recording begins in progress at an unknown time after 11:19 am]
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                               Tape Subject Log
                                 (rev. 10/06)
                                                         Conv. No. 599-10 (cont.)


Supreme Court nominees
     -Media reaction
           -Ziegler’s assessment
     -James J. Kilpatrick, Jr.
           -Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
           -Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
           -William H. Rehnquist
     -Patrick J. Buchanan
           -Powell
           -Rehnquist
                 -Barry M. Goldwater
           -Conversation with Ziegler
           -Catholic appointee
     -Political affiliation
     -Speech
           -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
           -Work by the President
     -The President’s view
     -John M. Harlan
     -Rehnquist
     -Harlan
     -Harry A. Blackmun
           -Powell
           -Rehnquist
     -The President’s speech
     -Conservatives
           -Buchanan
     -The President's philosophy toward appointments
     -Powell
           -Age
                 -The President’s comments
     -Justices of note
           -Richard A. Moore
                 -Ages
           -Louis D. Brandeis
           -Benjamin N. Cardozo
           -Oliver Wendell Holmes
     -Powell
     -Rehnquist
           -Conservatives
           -Future
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                NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                             Tape Subject Log
                               (rev. 10/06)
                                                     Conv. No. 599-10 (cont.)


-Press
      -Political views
            -Herschel H. Friday
            -Woman candidate
                  -Mildred L. Lillie
-Rehnquist
      -Press comments
      -Law school class
      -Robert C. Jackson
      -Department of Justice
      -John W. Dean, III
      -Media
      -John D. Ehrlichman
      -David R. Young, Jr.
      -Dean
      -Leonard Garment
      -Moore
-Powell
      -Ehrlichman
            -Age
            -Friday
      -Warren E. Burger
      -Blackmun
-Rehnquist
-Powell
-Burger
-Blackmun
-Burger
      -Arthur F. Burns
-Public relations
      -Letters to the editor
-New York Times
-Washington Post
-Nixon appointees
-William O. Douglas
      -The President’s view
-Potter Stewart
-Byron R. (“Whizzer”) White
-Thurgood Marshall
-William J. Brennan
-Marshall
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                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                      Tape Subject Log
                                        (rev. 10/06)
                                                                 Conv. No. 599-10 (cont.)


           -Stewart
           -White
           -Douglas
           -Rehnquist
                -Douglas

     Nixon supporters
         -Ruth Voss
               -Previous meeting with the President
                     -Volunteer efforts

     Pay Board
          -Labor members
                -George Meany
                      -The President’s previous conversation
          -George P. Shultz
          -Meany
          -Shultz
          -James D. Hodgson
          -Instructions for dealing with the press
                -Attendance of labor members
          -Hodgson’s telephone call to Meany
          -Press statement

Ziegler left at 11:41 am.

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:41 am.

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with Imelda Marcos
               -Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.
               -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
               -Press plan
                      -Photographs

Haldeman and Bull left at 11:43 am.