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Conversation 245-010

TapeTape 245StartTuesday, April 6, 1971 at 11:10 AMEndTuesday, April 6, 1971 at 11:11 AMTape start time01:57:42Tape end time02:01:13ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Acker, Marjorie P.Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
AI Summary

President Nixon met with Marjorie P. Acker to provide specific editorial direction for a speech draft. He instructed Acker to revert to an earlier version of the text, explicitly identifying a problematic sentence that needed to be removed. Acker agreed to modify the draft for the commissioner based on the President's requested revisions.

SpeechwritingEditorial reviewWhite House communicationsDrafting
AudioNARA Description

On April 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Marjorie P. Acker met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 11:10 am to 11:11 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 245-010 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 245-010

Date: April 6, 1971
Time: 11:10 am - 11:11 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Marjorie P. Acker

[See Conversation No. 42-13]
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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Yeah.
Pardon.
Now, you can take this, but, uh, if you will look at the, uh, the, uh... Oh.
Page 14.
Page 14.
Uh...
The sentence ending has been a long, difficult trial for us.
Yeah.
From there on, I want you to, not for me, but for the draft you give the commissioner to leave and move your name.
That is in the old speech.
See what I mean?
Let me explain.
This is all a change, you know, that part of it is a change.
You remember where I say, but I'm sure you're not going to come.
You remember that part of the answer on the yellow table?
What I want you to do is to go right back to the draft that I was working on.
Find that draft.
You've got it in front of you.
All right, what's it say right after?
All right, fine.
Bad sentence.
Bad sentence.
And everything else from there on, as it was in that draft, that's what the draft can get at the end.
Fair enough.
I'll just get it at the end.
Thank you.
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