Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 416 › Conversation 416-003

Nixon, Haldeman & Sanchez on Golda Meir and White House events

Thursday, March 1, 1973 · 1:15 PM–1:25 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 6 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo; Bull, Stephen B.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Nixon, Richard M. (President); Sanchez, Manolo; Bull, Stephen B.; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Conversation416-003 on Tape 416StartThursday, March 1, 1973 at 1:15 PMEndThursday, March 1, 1973 at 1:25 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 416-003 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon met with Manolo Sanchez and Stephen B. Bull to finalize logistical arrangements for an upcoming dinner with Golda Meir, specifically focusing on seating charts and table shapes. Following these preparations, Nixon consulted with H. R. Haldeman regarding the scheduling and strategy for a forthcoming congressional leadership meeting. The discussion emphasized the need to engage effectively with Republican leaders, including Hugh Scott and Gerald Ford, to maintain bipartisan support and manage legislative objectives.

Audio

Download MP3 · 2.1 MB

Transcript (AI-generated)

This transcript is incomplete. The transcription skipped stretches of speech — roughly 2 minutes of this recording (about 35% of it) is represented by only a few words. Listen to the audio rather than relying on the text below; a corrected transcript is queued.

This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Names and numbers are often wrong; speakers are not identified. Do not cite it as authoritative — verify against the audio and the finding aid.

Download transcript (.txt) · JSON data

· Click a timestamp to play from that point; the page address then links to that moment (e.g. #t=125).

Well, tonight, I think we got it.

This is extra.

We should all be at the same round table.

But if you want it in a square table, what do you want?

No, round tables.

All right, fine.

What do you have in mind?

Your table, right next to it.

This is roughly what you want to do.

See what she wants and she would prefer to be at my table.

That's what she made her to be at the table with me and then just throw off, but it wouldn't be the way to get out of there.

I'd rather think, no, no, that's what it would seem to work out.

But it's her choice that I have no feeling about.

Same thing as junior night.

I don't want

What about this?

You're not going to have a Republican leadership meeting this week.

You better run that by Yes, sir.

I just want to have In regard to this leadership, the purpose of having

It's that much.

But my point is, why don't we have this Republican leadership meeting so that we can say, we can't talk about it.

We can't talk about it.

We'll all sit around.

They want to avoid discussing anything that's a problem.

It's a horrible trajectory, you know, of this government leadership that they love to talk to.

Why not bring them an errand?

We're kind of stronger than Scott in many ways.

It's an errand.

I don't prefer it, except that I don't think labor is due to the fact that they've got to be doing the rest.

They just may be in the middle of it.

This is a decision that should be made by this plan.

We can talk to Tim and say, I like this.

I like how we're going to do this.

Okay.

It's all right.

The schedule's all right.

Just ask.

Yes, sir.

Scott Gordon or other names.

Scott Gordon.

All right.

Why not?

And then why not the whole group?

But I thought it was whatever.

All of it.

Bye.

NARA Description

On March 1, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, Stephen B. Bull, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:15 pm to 1:25 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 416-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 416-3

Date: March 1, 1973
Time: 1:15 pm-1:25 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez and Stephen B. Bull.

       President's schedule

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:25 pm.

       Dinner for Golda Meir
            -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                   -Seating arrangements
            -Table
                   -Shape
            -Seating
                   -President’s table
                   -Golda Meir, Lea (Schlossberg) Rabin
                   -Alice Roosevelt Longworth
                   -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson
                   -William F. (“Billy”) Graham
                   -Irving Kristol
                                            -7-

                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                                           Conversation No. 416-3 (cont’d)

                  -Simcha Dinitz
                  -Taft Shreiber
                  -Mrs. Nixon
                  -Yitzhak Rabin

      Sammy Davis, Jr.'s performance at the White House
          -Songs
          -Mrs. Nixon
                -Arrangements
          -Blue Room
                -Receiving line

      Congressional leadership meeting
           -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman, Peter M. Flanigan
           -Scheduling
           -Roy L. Ash, John D. Ehrlichman, William E. Timmons
           -Bipartisan character
           -Republicans
                 -Hugh Scott, Gerald R. Ford
           -Haldeman's opinion

The President talked with Haldeman at an unknown time between 1:15 pm and 1:25 pm.

[Conversation No. 416-3A]

      Congressional leadership meeting
           -Purpose
           -Meeting with Scott and Ford
                 -Value
                 -Bull
                 -Trade issues
                 -Bipartisan character
                 -Leslie C. Arends, Robert P. Griffin
           -Republicans
                 -Value
                 -Purpose of meeting
                 -Bryce N. Harlow
                 -Griffin, Arends
                 -Scott
                                                -8-

                      NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                                            Conversation No. 416-3 (cont’d)

                     -Vetoes [?]
               -Flanigan
               -Timmons
               -Need to talk with Republicans

[End of telephone conversation]

          Congressional leadership meeting
               -Scheduling
               -Haldeman's opinion
               -Scott, Ford, Griffin, Arends
               -Timmons, Haldeman
                     -Opinions

Bull left at 1:25 pm.

Also recorded on March 1, 1973

866-016 12:41 PM · 24 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:41 pm to 1:06 pm.
866-017 1:06 PM · 10 min — President Richard M. Nixon, unknown person(s), and John W. Dean, III met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:06 pm to 1:14 pm.
866-022 1:14 PM · 25 sec — unknown person(s) and United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:14 pm and 3:06 pm.
416-004 1:25 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 1:25 pm and 3:02 pm.
416-005 1:25 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 3:02 pm.
416-006 1:25 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 3:02 pm.
416-051 3:02 PM · 21 sec — unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:02 pm and 3:35 pm.
866-018 3:02 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:02 pm and 3:06 pm.

All 53 conversations from March 1, 1973 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 416-003, March 1, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/416-003 (accessed October 1, 2026).