Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 10 › Conversation 010-046
Nixon phone call with Connally on Novelty currency
Tuesday, October 5, 1971 · 5:18 PM–5:19 PM ET · White House Telephone · 31 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon and Treasury Secretary John B. Connally share a brief, informal exchange regarding a piece of novelty currency presented to Connally by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The two discuss the visual design and cleverness of the item, which appears to be a split or modified dollar bill designed to look like a much larger denomination. No policy decisions were made during this social call.
- Novelty currency
- John B. Connally
- Veterans of Foreign Wars
- White House informal communications
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NARA Description
On October 5, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and John B. Connally talked on the telephone from 5:18 pm to 5:19 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 010-046 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 10-46
Date: October 5, 1971
Time: 5:18 pm - 5:19 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with John B. Connally.
[See Conversation No. 585-14]
Connally's novelty "money" from the Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-NoveltyAlso recorded on October 5, 1971
- 585-010 5:15 PM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:15 pm and 5:19 pm.
- 585-011 5:15 PM · 25 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:15 pm and 5:19 pm.
- 585-012 5:15 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:15 pm and 5:19 pm.
- 585-013 5:15 PM · 16 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:15 pm and 5:19 pm.
- 585-014 5:18 PM · 42 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and John B. Connally met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:18 pm to 5:19 pm.
- 585-015 5:19 PM · 17 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, John B. Connally, White House operator, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Richard H. Poff met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:19 pm to 5:39 pm.
- 010-047 5:20 PM · 23 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and John B. Connally talked on the telephone from 5:20 pm to 5:21 pm.
- 010-048 5:21 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:21 pm and 5:29 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 010-046, October 5, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/010-046 (accessed September 28, 2026).