Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 007-161
Date: Monday, August 16, 1971 at 11:50 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); BeLieu, Kenneth E.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-161

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Hi, Bob.
[0:02] Ken, the president would like to call a bipartisan leadership meeting tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
[0:07] Okay.
[0:09] And the members should be notified immediately by phone.
[0:12] You get your whole crew going.
[0:14] Mm-hmm.
[0:15] Excuse me, make it 11 o'clock.
[0:17] All right.
[0:18] 11 o'clock tomorrow.
[0:20] Whoops, now 10.30.
[0:22] All right.
[0:24] To get time for them to get in, because they'll have to fly in from around.
[0:27] Mm-hmm.
[0:28] Scott probably won't be here.
[0:29] All right.
[0:30] Let me give you the names now.
[0:32] Mansfield, Scott, Griffin, and Byrd from the Senate.
[0:39] Mm-hmm.
[0:39] Halbert, who, of course, can't come.
[0:41] Boggs, Ford, and Ahrens from the House.
[0:48] Mm-hmm.
[0:49] Then, yeah, and their whip.
[0:51] I guess you've got to have, what's his name?
[0:55] Mm-hmm.
[0:55] Okay.
[0:56] No, the house whip, you know.
[1:05] Yeah.
[1:09] Ford and Boggs.
[1:13] Okay, leave out Griffin and Byrd.
[1:17] Okay, I think Bird's in the hospital and Grayson's in the state.
[1:20] Right.
[1:21] So they get Mansfield and Scott from the Senate and Boggs and Ford from the House leave out errands.
[1:26] Okay.
[1:27] Then chairman and ranking member of banking and currency, both houses.
[1:36] Mm-hmm.
[1:36] Appropriations and ways and means.
[1:42] Okay.
[1:44] No, he's back to include the whips.
[1:46] Well, he says Bird's in the hospital, and Griffin's, as you know, is out of the state anyway.
[1:50] At least we hear Bird's in the hospital, and that's how I got him last night.
[1:54] What do you think?
[1:56] Invite him anyway?
[1:57] Don't have him.
[1:59] We can invite him and get the credit.
[2:01] Let's invite him.
[2:02] Okay.
[2:03] So include the whips, but then you've got to put the House Democratic whip in, too.
[2:08] Mm-hmm.
[2:09] O'Neill.
[2:11] Mm-hmm.
[2:12] I have an idea he's in Mass.
[2:14] Yeah, I think he's not there anyway.
[2:18] President's already talked to Mills, but your office should call and confirm that he's calling the meeting.
[2:23] Okay.
[2:24] And so it'd be Mills and Burns, Long and Bennett, Mayon and Boe.
[2:32] Mm-hmm.
[2:33] And your Senate Appropriations.
[2:37] I'll enter.
[2:38] And the Banking and Currency guys.
[2:42] Most of these guys are way out of town.
[2:43] We may not get them.
[2:44] Okay.
[2:44] Well, that's all right.
[2:46] Try to get them, and then we'll have to... Who are the ranking members of the Joint Economic?
[2:52] Got your directory there?
[2:55] Yeah, I got it right, Sandy.
[3:12] Broxmire.
[3:13] Broxmire.
[3:14] Patman.
[3:19] Patman.
[3:19] Javits.
[3:20] Javits.
[3:22] Forget that one.
[3:22] Yeah.
[3:23] Scratch them.
[3:24] And Wendell.
[3:26] Okay.
[3:27] Scratch Joint Economic.
[3:28] Drop that one, yep.
[3:31] Now, yeah, we will definitely furnish transportation for mills.
[3:40] And we'll do, you know, we should try to make planes available for everybody else.
[3:44] What you're going to have to do is find out if they need transportation and then see what we can provide on a pickup basis.
[3:52] Okay, sir.
[3:53] Scott's in Europe someplace.
[3:56] We couldn't find him last night.
[3:57] Okay, well, that's all right.
[3:59] Transportation in the U.S., not in Europe.
[4:02] Okay.
[4:03] Yes, sir.
[4:03] Okay?
[4:04] Roger.
[4:04] I'll check with you a little later.
[4:06] You bet.
[4:06] All right.
[4:07] Bye.