Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 426 › Conversation 426-028

Nixon & Timmons on GOP Relations and Legislative Strategy

Tuesday, April 10, 1973 · 2:02 PM–2:03 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 2 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Timmons, William E.Conversation426-028 on Tape 426StartTuesday, April 10, 1973 at 2:02 PMEndTuesday, April 10, 1973 at 2:03 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 426-028 ↗

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President Nixon and William E. Timmons coordinate the scheduling and attendee management for upcoming meetings with GOP members regarding tax and energy legislation. Concerned about redundant appearances, the President instructs Timmons to streamline these sessions by consolidating committee members from Ways and Means and Finance to ensure maximum attendance. Nixon also suggests hosting a breakfast meeting to accommodate a larger group for the energy policy presentation.

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Yeah.
Bill, I was talking to Steve here, and I'm not keen on that idea of doubling that up that much for having to sit through another meeting with the GOP, not particularly since I'm having the whole damn group down over at the reception.
You see, it just looks like we're seeing the same people every time.
What was the idea for me to do it?
Do we have to do this?
And everyone I thought, do we have the energy meeting and we have all the Republicans to help here?
Well, let's get, look on ways and means and finance.
Ways and means and finance when you have the tax meeting.
Do you understand?
Tax meeting.
I want you to fill the whole, fill in the whole row, see, and get a hell of a lot of money.
You see there,
ways and means of finance and you can put in as many as perhaps 16 fill up the front table and fill up the back table that's what I would do with that and on the energy thing I want you to fill up that thing and as a matter of fact if you feel if you feel the group is too big I could do that for breakfast in other words if you want to have a much bigger one
I could do a breakfast and have as many as 30 or 40 people.
Get an extra, see?
So on that one, if you want to, you could have a breakfast and put on the energy show for that.
But hey, well, I didn't think, I just didn't think we're having so much.
We've got three meetings coming up.
Okay, fine.
Now we're all set for the thing on...
Great job.
Great job.
Thank you.

NARA Description

On April 10, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and William E. Timmons met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:02 pm to 2:03 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 426-028 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 426-28

Date: April 10, 1973
Time: 2:02 pm - 2:03 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with William E. Timmons.

[See Conversation No. 44-121]

Also recorded on April 10, 1973

  • 044-120 2:01 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 2:01 pm.
  • 044-121 2:01 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and William E. Timmons talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:01 pm and 2:03 pm.
  • 426-027 2:01 PM · 55 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:01 pm to 2:02 pm.
  • 044-122 2:03 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:03 pm and 2:09 pm.
  • 426-029 2:03 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:03 pm and 2:09 pm.
  • 044-123 2:09 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:09 pm and 2:10 pm.
  • 044-124 2:09 PM · 20 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:09 pm and 2:10 pm.
  • 426-030 2:09 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:09 pm to 2:10 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 426-028, April 10, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/426-028 (accessed October 5, 2026).