Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 284 › Conversation 284-017
Nixon & Haldeman
Wednesday, October 6, 1971 · 5:30 PM–5:45 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 15 min
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Position in tape: 01:46:27 – 02:01:34
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NARA Description
On October 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:30 pm to 5:45 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 284-017 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 284-17
Date: October 6, 1971
Time: 5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Wholesale prices
-Rate of increase
House
-Tax bill
Senate
-The President's speech
-Filibuster possibility
-Clark MacGregor
-Hugh Scott
Draft of speech for October 7, 1971
-William L. Safire
-George P. Shultz
-Herbert Stein
-Ronald L. Ziegler, Peter M. Flanigan, John D. Ehrlichman
-Staff people
-Editors
-Arthur F. Burns
-John B. Connally, Shultz, Stein, and the President
-Wholesale prices
-Stock market
-Albert H. Gordon
-Shultz
-Windfall profits
-Possible effect
-Price reductions
-Stock market
The President's schedule
-Cabinet
-Russell B. Long
Polls
-Unnamed pollster
-Issues
-US electionShow the rest of the log (37 more lines)
-Nixon support
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Methodology
-Problems
-George H. Gallup
-Undecided
-Schedule
-Approval ratings
-Louis P. Harris
-Approval ratings
-Henry A. Kissinger
-PRC announcement
-Burns
-Gallup poll
-Union of Socialist Soviet Republics [USSR]
-Phase II
-Developments of the President's administration
Popular opinion
-Busing
-Issues
-Effect on President
-Housing
-War
-Cambodia
-William Proxmire
Reviews of book
-[Forename unknown] Wallace
-George [Shultz ?]
-Wallace
Personnel
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
The President and Haldeman left at 5:45 pm.Transcript (AI-generated)
No transcript is available yet for this conversation.
Also recorded on October 6, 1971
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- 010-096 5:16 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 5:16 pm.
- 010-097 5:16 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John B. Connally talked on the telephone from 5:16 pm to 5:18 pm.
- 010-098 5:18 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and William L. Safire talked on the telephone from 5:18 pm to 5:19 pm.
- 010-099 5:19 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 5:19 pm to 5:22 pm.
- 284-015 5:25 PM · 1 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 5:25 pm and 5:30 pm.
- 284-016 5:25 PM · 32 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:25 pm and 5:30 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 284-017, October 6, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/284-017 (accessed November 2, 2026).