Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 273 › Conversation 273-003

Nixon & Haldeman on George P. Shultz and John B. Connally

Thursday, August 12, 1971 · 1:20 PM–2:31 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 2 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Conversation273-003 on Tape 273 (tape position 00:06:07–00:07:53)StartThursday, August 12, 1971 at 1:20 PMEndThursday, August 12, 1971 at 2:31 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 273-003 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon and H. R. Haldeman met to coordinate the President's upcoming schedule and evaluate logistics for meetings with key economic advisors. The discussion focused on potential itinerary adjustments for an August 13 session involving George P. Shultz and John B. Connally. The two reviewed organizational priorities to ensure the administration's economic objectives remained on track.

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NARA Description

On August 12, 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 1:20 pm and 2:31 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 273-003 of the White House Tapes.

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Conversation No. 273-3

Date: August 12, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:20 pm and 2:31 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

     President's schedule
          -Forthcoming meeting, August 13, 1971
                 -George P. Shultz
                 -Itinerary
                       -Possible change
                 -John B. Connally
          -Forthcoming weekend

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But it's, uh... Henry, thank you.
It's 3 o'clock for shows now, is it?
Fine.
That'll give him time to prepare.
I don't know.
All right, let's just leave it and change the department.
They're all people who can be changed in one place.
All right.
I do one thing or another.
Yeah.
Yeah.
For example, we decided to promise to go virtually with nothing.
We promised to go online.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, that sort of thing has never surprised me to me.
That's true.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We know there's a problem and so forth, but it's just a question of time.
That's fine.

Also recorded on August 12, 1971

  • 562-003 12:15 PM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Harold C. Passer, Charles W. Colson, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:15 pm to 12:24 pm.
  • 562-004 12:24 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:24 pm to 12:25 pm.
  • 562-005 12:25 PM · 21 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Arnold R. Weber, George P. Shultz, White House photographer, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:25 pm to 12:44 pm.
  • 562-006 12:45 PM · 31 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, John W. Dean, III, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:45 pm to 1:17 pm.
  • 562-007 1:17 PM · 34 sec — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 1:17 pm on August 12, 1971 and 8:59 am on August 13, 1971.
  • 273-001 1:20 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:20 pm and 2:31 pm.
  • 273-002 1:20 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:20 pm and 2:31 pm.
  • 273-004 1:20 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:20 pm and 2:31 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 273-003, August 12, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/273-003 (accessed November 2, 2026).