President Nixon and H. R. Haldeman met to review the President’s daily schedule, specifically discussing an upcoming breakfast meeting with Wilbur D. Mills and a session with Soviet Minister of Foreign Trade Nikolai S. Patolichev. The conversation included a reference to former President Harry S. Truman in the context of the meeting with Mills. No further substantive policy decisions or developments were recorded during this brief administrative exchange.
On May 11, 1972, 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 11:35 am and 11:43 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 338-040 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 338-40
Date: May 11, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:35 and 11:43 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman (?).
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President's schedule
-Breakfast meeting with Wilbur D. Mills
-Meeting with Nikolai S. Patolichev
-Mills
-Reference to Harry S. TrumanNo transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.