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Conversation 298-029

TapeTape 298StartThursday, November 11, 1971 at 4:24 PMEndThursday, November 11, 1971 at 4:29 PMTape start time02:34:09Tape end time02:36:05ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Recording deviceOld Executive Office Building
AudioNARA Description

On November 11, 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 4:24 pm and 4:29 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 298-029 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 298-29

Date: November 11, 1971
Time: Unknown between 4:24 pm and 4:29 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

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

     Haldeman's conversation with John [N. Mitchell?]

     Earl L. Butz
           -Background
                -Indiana
                      -Politics
                -Agriculture
                     -Farming
                     -Teaching

     Government reorganization
         -John D. Ehrlichman
         -Ash Council
         -The President's previous statement
              -Reorganization Act
                    -Prospects

     John C. Stennis Amendment
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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Yeah, I wondered if you had a chance to talk to John at, uh, the bar.
Sure.
Uh, I, uh, don't know.
I don't know.
Before he gets his mind set in some other direction, I thought this was handled very well.
You know, we haven't, we don't get much credit for this, and it's gracefully gone on.
And, uh, it may hurt me to admit it.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, boy.
Yeah, what you said.
Yeah, just bring in a great country.
Yeah, and he'll say that all over the country.
He's going to be a, he's going to, and he'll do it, you know, he's, he's an Indiana politician, Bob, that's as good as he does.
You know, and it, and it isn't too bad, too, to ever mention that I've been, like, my whole life, I've been raised on a farm, a farm, just for a year, still here, a farm here, and then I've been in teaching or in the department all of my life, that's not bad.
So, uh, the, uh,
The organization came in on that.
And again, I put a pair too, which you noticed in the way I said in this also, which is a greater success for passengers in the area of the mission after.
There's practically no way to get into it at all.
It's a lot of work.
It's a lot of work, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Good.
Good.
Okay.
All right, here he goes.
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