Nixon White House Tapes ›Tape 8 › Conversation 008-063

Nixon phone call with Haldeman on Carl Albert and People's Republic of China

Thursday, September 9, 1971 · 11:01 AM–11:13 AM ET · White House Telephone ·16 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Conversation008-063 onTape 8 (tape position 02:02:51–02:18:46)StartThursday, September 9, 1971 at 11:01 AMEndThursday, September 9, 1971 at 11:13 AMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 008-063 ↗

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President Nixon and H.R. Haldeman reviewed the President's upcoming schedule, focusing on labor meetings, congressional functions, and preparations for an upcoming press conference. They also discussed a report praising Carl Albert for his effective advocacy of the administration's position regarding the upcoming China trip during his recent travels to Taiwan and Korea. Additionally, they coordinated plans regarding an upcoming Alaska trip, including considerations for the pipeline project and local political relations.

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yeah yeah why don't you decide he's here and you'll be you're going to stay over the residence yeah i think you'll be set up there then and do you 12 or um right okay all right what is it such uh
No, it really isn't, except, did you see that note on Carl Albert?
Sick?
No, no, he's fine.
I sent a note over just to report that the people on his delegation on that trip reported that he just did a superb job in explaining the Nixon position on the trip to China and all that to the people in Taiwan and Korea and so on.
And they just want you to know.
See, Carl, if you wanted to just drop a word about what a great job you've done.
And he used the fact of his private meeting with you.
You did a good job of reassurance of our friends.
Good.
Good.
No, there's a proof.
They're set up to go on the labor meeting tomorrow.
What is that?
What time will that be?
Yeah, it'll be at 10 o'clock.
The others will be next week.
The only problem I have, Bob, is...
You're clear, completely clear Tuesday.
We can have one Monday.
We can have one Tuesday.
We've got one Monday morning, one Tuesday morning, and one Friday afternoon.
Monday morning.
We still have the cabinets.
Right.
No, the leaders are Tuesday.
Cabinet's Monday.
Cabinet's Monday at 8.30 and one group at 10.30.
And the leaders are at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning in the meetings at 11, which is .
And then we've got the afternoons cleared.
Friday?
This Friday?
We have one Friday.
No, not this.
Well, a week from Friday.
Yes.
Yeah.
You have the last one before the meeting .
When's the astronaut dinner?
The astronaut dinner is Thursday night.
Well, we can shift the conversions into the following week if they want to anyway.
Is that what you have on site?
Yeah.
Well, let's do that.
Let's not get the idea.
Right.
Five people, five people.
I just looked this thing over.
I think it's five people.
I don't think I could go to Florida by six weeks at a minute.
Right.
The other thing you might want to do, however, is that Connelly will be back on Friday.
And you might want to stay over, go to Florida late Friday afternoon to give you a chance to see Connelly to get that meeting done.
And then you can stay through Monday.
We have nothing scheduled on Monday.
It might be better to do that.
Finish out that week and then go Friday afternoon.
Yeah.
Thursday as of now.
Right.
Right.
So the press thing, you'd want them... No.
You'd want them by noon on Tuesday.
I don't think so.
It's better to give them more time.
We've got Tuesday afternoon, basically.
That might be one of your golf games.
Yeah.
Should I tell them 7.30 Tuesday evening?
Should I tell them 7.30 Tuesday evening?
Yeah.
You can work on Tuesday evening.
You have all day Wednesday and Thursday morning.
8 o'clock.
I don't need to see it.
I'd like to see it.
It makes a difference.
right now what's about the uh about that other thing that we're still
Pulling together.
The Evans meeting was postponed yesterday to meeting at 1.30 today.
So we'll get a reading from him today and put that together.
The Alaska part works out fine.
It's a good thing we're doing it, John.
It's a good thing we're doing it, John.
It's a good thing we're doing it, John.
Well, I can .
No.
But as long as we're going, we might as well.
That's right.
So the fact that it would be written .
I don't want to jackass around it, but it would better be .
But the plan would be to defer to the Hickle family.
Right.
I think that's our best bet for something to do.
If he's willing.
He does.
He does.
They'll have quite a crowd.
Oh, yeah.
Sure they will.
No, that's right.
They'll do a good job.
Well, if we have the pipeline, then that'll help.
All right, well, let's do it.
I spoke to John today.
One other thing I want you to .
I think .
That's right.
Yep.
And also build some of the other stuff.
... ... ... ... ... ... ...
He's pinched back at the deadline.
Yes, sir.
Yes, he is.
Right.
Yes.
Yes, I talked to him this morning.
Yeah.
I made it go...

NARA Description

On September 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 11:01 am to 11:13 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-063 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 8-63

Date: September 9, 1971
Time: 11:01 am - 11:13 am
Location: White House Telephone

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

     The President's schedule

     -Meeting with Mark I. Goode [?]
          -Time

Carl B. Albert
     -Note
           -Trip delegation
           -Explanation of President's position
                 -People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
                      -Taiwan
                      -Korea
     -President’s possible recognition of Albert’s efforts
     -Meeting with the President
     -Reassurance to allies

The President's schedule
     -Labor meeting, September 10, 1971
           -Time
     -Meeting arrangements
           -Timing
           -Cabinet
           -Leaders
     -Astronauts dinner
     -Florida
     -Congressional function
     -Florida
           -John B. Connally's schedule
                 -Meeting
     -Detroit meeting
     -Press conference, September 16, 1971
           -Patrick J. Buchanan
                 -Briefing book
                       -Timing
           -William L. Safire
           -Richard A. Moore
     -John F. Evans, Jr. meeting
           -Postponement
           -Re-scheduled
     -Alaska trip
           -John D. Ehrlichman
                 -Ted Stevens
     -Publishers
     -Walter J. Hickel

                -Maurice H. Stans

     [Unintelligible]

          -Alaska trip
               -Pipeline
          -The President's talk with John N. Mitchell
               -[Unintelligible]
          -Colleges and universities
               -William P. Rogers
               -Henry A. Kissinger
               -Oklahoma
               -Lectures
               -Rogers
          -Robert H. Finch
          -Dwight L. Chapin
          -Ronald L. Ziegler
          -Note

     [Unintelligible]

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 008-063, September 9, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-063 (accessed September 18, 2026).