Conversation: 246-026
Prev: 246-025 Next: 246-027Start Date: Wednesday, April 7, 1971 9:30 PM
End Date: Wednesday, April 7, 1971 10:05 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); [Unknown person(s)]; White House operator; Dean, John W., IIIRecording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:17:31
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 04:45:08
NARA Description:
On April 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), White House operator, and John W. Dean, III met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:30 pm to 5:05 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 246-026 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 246-26
Date: April 7, 1971
Time: 4:30 pm - 5:05 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Conv. No. 246-24 (cont.)
Melvin R. Laird
-Haldeman’s conversation with William E. Timmons
-Clark MacGregor
President’s schedule
-Allen J. Ellender
-Views
-Russell B. Long
-Big Six
-George H. Mahon
-President Pro Tempore
[Haldeman talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and 4:42 pm]
[Conversation No. 246-26A]
President’s schedule
-Ellender
-Instructions for Timmons
[End of telephone conversation]
Vietnam
-President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971
-Press briefing
-Henry A. Kissinger, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Cabinet
-William P. Rogers
-Elliot L. Richardson
White House staff
-Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
Congress
-President’s supporters
-Schedule
Cabinet
-Evaluated
-John B. Connally
-Maurice H. Stans Conv. No. 246-26 (cont.)
-George P. Shultz
-George W. Romney, James D. Hodgson
-John N. Mitchell
-Rogers, Laird, Richardson
-Rogers
-Calls to Haldeman
Business community
-Kissinger’s views
-Calls to President
President’s schedule
-Telephone calls after speech
White House staff
-Loyalty
-William L. Safire, Raymond K. Price, Jr.
Cabinet
-Evaluated
-Mitchell, Connally, Richardson
-Rogers
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Tenure in office
-Possible future
-Television
-Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS]
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
Cable television
-President’s policy
-Hope
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Richard A. Moore
-Wife
Vice Presidency
-Connally
-Agnew
-Possible resignation
Conv. No. 246-26 (cont.)
[The President talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and 4:42
pm]
[Conversation No. 246-26B]
Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
John W. Dean, III
[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and
4:42 pm]
[Conversation No. 246-26C]
Call to Dean
[End of telephone conversation]
Vice Presidency
-Filling vacancies
-Congress
-Connally
[The President talked with Dean between 4:42 pm and 4:44 pm]
[Conversation No. 246-26D]
Constitutional Amendment on Presidential succession
-Status
-President’s daughters
-Vice Presidency
-Congress
-President’s suggestions
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
[End of telephone conversation]
Dean
Vice Presidency
-Agnew
-Possible resignation
-Supreme Court Conv. No. 246-26 (cont.)
-Activities
-Francis A. (“Frank”) Sinatra, Hope
-Possible resignation
-Future
-Richardson
J. Edgar Hoover
-Tenure in office
-Agnew’s possible resignation
Opposition to administration
-President
-Agnew
-Polls
-Dwight D. Eisenhower and the President
-Adlai E. Stevenson, II
Agnew
-Approval by President
-Possible second term
-President’s possible death
-Eisenhower
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Possible removal
-Connally
Connally’s schedule
-”Meet the Press”
-Rogers
-Herbert G. Klein
-Hugh Scott
-Head of Blue Cross
-George S. McGovern
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
National economy
-Stock market
-Connally
[Dean talked with the President between 4:51 pm and 4:52 pm]
[Conversation No. 246-26E]
Conv. No. 246-26 (cont.)
Vice Presidential succession
[End of telephone conversation]
Vice Presidency
-Congress
-Succession Amendment
-Possible consequences
-Agnew
-Possible resignation
-Timing
-Summit
-Reasons
-Bryce N. Harlow’s possible role
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 2m 26s ]
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Vietnam
-Polls
-Results
-President’s expectations
-Timing
-George H. Gallup
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 9/08)
-Laos
-Lieutenant William L. Calley, Jr.
-Wording of questions
President’s schedule
-Phone calls after forthcoming speech
-Women’s briefing, April 8, 1971
-Location Conv. No. 246-26 (cont.)
-Council on International Economic Policy
-Peter G. Peterson
President’s forthcoming speech, April 7, 1971
-Close
-Commentators’ possible reaction
-Support
Haldeman left at 5:05 pm