Conversation: 008-113
Prev: 008-112 Next: 008-114Start Date: Monday, September 13, 1971 5:31 PM
End Date: Monday, September 13, 1971 5:38 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rockefeller, Nelson A.Recording Device: White House Telephone
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 05:17:35
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 05:24:45
NARA Description:
On September 13, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Nelson A. Rockefeller talked on the telephone from 1:31 pm to 1:38 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-113 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 8-113
Date: September 13, 1971
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Time: 1:31 pm - 1:38 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Nelson A. Rockefeller.
[See Conversation No. 571-1C]
New York
-Attica prison uprising
-The President's schedule
-Talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Rockefeller’s call
-President’s inability to return
-Cabinet meeting
-Business leaders meeting
-Rockefeller's handling
-Amnesty
-Newspapers
-Possible consequences
-Nation’s prisons
-Casualties
-Troops
-Response by law authorities
-Rockefeller’s call
-Hostages
-Number
-Prisoners
-Number
-Helicopters
-Gas attack
-Sharpshooters
-Report
-Seven hostage deaths
-Guards
-Time of death
-Thirty-two prisoners killed
-Additional casualties
-Blacks
-Killed
-Response by law authorities
-Reasons for using force
-Killing guards
-Attacks on authority
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-Trooper casualty
-President’s view
-Admiration
-Anarchy
-Russell G. Oswald
-Head of New York prisons
-Background
-John N. Mitchell
-Spiro T. Agnew
-National conspiracy theory
-Support for the President
-Television
-Puerto Ricans
-Killing
-Guard
-Castration
-President’s view
-Citizens Committee
-Thomas Grey (Tom”) Wicker
-Request of prisoners
-William Kunstler
-Head of Mau-Maus
-Legislators
-Wicker
-Support of prisoners
-Request for Rockefeller to come to Attica
-Wicker
-Amnesty
-John V. Lindsay
-Negotiations
Re-election
-President’s prospects
Rockefeller’s possible trip to Puerto Rico
-Stay in New York
-Prison riots
-Attica
-Shipment of bodies
-Possible trouble
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