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Conversation: 251-008

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Start Date: 20-Apr-1971 2:46 PM

End Date: 20-Apr-1971 2:55 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")

Recording Device: Old Executive Office Building

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:05:38

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:07:04

251a.mp3

251b.mp3

NARA Description:

On April 20, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:46 pm and 2:55 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 251-008 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 251-8

Date: April 20, 1971
Time: Unknown between 2:46 pm and 2:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman?]

     President’s schedule
          -Request for unknown person’s [Haldeman?] presence at Oval Office for
                appointments
          -Picture session with John N. Mitchell
                -Timing

     Appointment
         -Need [for Office of Emergency Preparedness] to “sell” economy, foreign policy
                                                4

                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                       Tape Subject Log
                                          (rev. 9/08)



           -Possible candidates for Cabinet positions
                -Unknown man
                -[Forename unknown] Delaney




                                                                         Conversation
                                                                         Conv. No. 251-8
                                                                                      No.(cont.)
                                                                                          251-9

Date: April 20, 1971
Time: 2:55 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from
December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access [SA] 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v.
James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration
produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Ziegler left at 3:00 pm