Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 410 › Conversation 410-011

Nixon alone in his EOB office on Personnel management

Tuesday, March 13, 1973 · 4:00 PM–4:15 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 5 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President)Conversation410-011 on Tape 410StartTuesday, March 13, 1973 at 4:00 PMEndTuesday, March 13, 1973 at 4:15 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 410-011 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon utilized this session to record a formal memorandum for his files regarding ongoing administrative and personnel matters. The dictation touched upon several internal issues, including personnel appointments involving Charles Colson and George Shultz, logistics regarding a new presidential aircraft, and follow-up requirements for a meeting with Alexander Haig. This record-keeping activity served as a brief administrative update on White House operations and personnel management.

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We've got a question.

First, you know, the combination of what we want, the geographic situation, and then, again, in the long-term, we're going to be closer to that.

We're going to decide how to do it.

uh...

I think in a sense, it's a very good, very, very good, very good, very good, very good, very good, very good, very good.

We were standing along the side of the road, and there was a police officer who was there, and she pulled her up, and she got up there, and she said to him, Charlton, come up to me, and tell me what to do, and I said, go this way, and I ran around the car, and I said, I'm going on the right, and I said, well, maybe the police officer said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Thank you.

Yes, sir.

I have one.

They're coming from the other side.

NARA Description

On March 13, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:15 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 410-011 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 410-11

Date: March 13, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:00 pm and 4:15 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]

       Personnel
              -Charles W. Colson
              -George P. Shultz
              -John D. Ehrlichman [?]
              -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman [?]
              -Shultz
              -Peter J. Brennan [?]
                      -Shultz
              -Leadership [?]
              -Congress

       New airplane
             -Trip to San Clemente [?]
             -Redecoration [?]

       Dictation machine
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                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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                                                             Conversation No. 410-11 (cont’d)

               -Batteries

       Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s meeting with President
             -Follow up

[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
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The President finished dictating at an unknown time before 4:15 pm.

Also recorded on March 13, 1973

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119-001 3:13 PM — President Richard M. Nixon and selected Cabinet officers and Administration officials, including Earl L. Butz, J. Philip Campbell, Claude S. Brinegar, Henri F. Rush, Jr., William E. Simon, John T. Dunlop, James W. McLane, Herbert Stein, Marina von Neumann Whitman, John D. Ehrlichman, Roy L. Ash, Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft, Frederic V. Malek, Kenneth W. Dam, Philip A. Odeen, Tod R. Hullin, Richard M. Fairbanks, III, William Morrill, and Gary L. Seevers, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 3:13 pm and 11:59 pm.
878-016 3:13 PM · 36 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at 3:13 pm.
410-012 4:00 PM · 11 sec — 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 4:00 pm and 4:15 pm.
410-013 4:00 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:15 pm.
878-017 4:14 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:14 pm to 4:18 pm.
410-014 4:16 PM · 1 hr 33 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, unknown person(s), Manolo Sanchez, White House operator, John Ford, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:16 pm to 5:46 pm.
878-018 4:42 PM · 37 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), John J. McCloy, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:42 pm to 5:19 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 410-011, March 13, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/410-011 (accessed October 1, 2026).