Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 363 › Conversation 363-009
Nixon, Connally & Bull on Arkansas politics and Winthrop Rockefeller
Tuesday, August 8, 1972 · 1:24 PM–3:45 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 4 min
AI Summary
President Nixon and John B. Connally met to discuss ongoing political maneuvers regarding the Arkansas senatorial election. They specifically addressed strategies to convince a candidate—Winthrop Rockefeller—to withdraw from the race to benefit Senator John L. McClellan. To facilitate this, the President and Connally decided to involve Henry Kissinger in diplomatic outreach to David Rockefeller to exert influence on the candidate.
- Arkansas politics
- Winthrop Rockefeller
- John L. McClellan
- Henry Kissinger
- political strategy
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NARA Description
On August 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and John B. Connally met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:24 pm and 3:45 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 363-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 363-9
Date: August 8, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:24 pm and 3:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
The President's meeting with John B. Connally
Connally entered and Bull left at 2:59 pm.
Greetings
Connally’s schedule
-Meeting with mayor of Miami
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 9m 59s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Arkansas
-Candidate [Wayne H. Babbitt]
-Winthrop Rockefeller
-Clark MacGregor
-David and Nelson Rockefeller
-Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Possible talk with David Rockefeller
-Winthrop Rockefeller
-John L. McClellan
-The President's previous conversation with John N. Mitchell
-David Rockefeller
-Kissinger
-Prospects for election
-McClellan
-Federal Housing Administration [FHA]
-Possible job offer
-Winthrop Rockefeller
-McClellan
-David Pryor
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 31m 12s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Return
[Unintelligible]
Connally left at 3:45 pm.Also recorded on August 8, 1972
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 363-009, August 8, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/363-009 (accessed October 1, 2026).