On February 24, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:35 pm and 12:43 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 457-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 457-9
Date: February 24, 1971
Time: Unknown between 12:35 pm and 12:43 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown man
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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 11/27/2017.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[457-009-w001]
[Duration: 11s]
Request for tea
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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm
Conversation No. 457-5
Date: February 24, 1971
Time: 12:43 pm - 1:24 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Radio statement by the President
-Speech draft
-William L. Safire
-Henry A. Kissinger
-President’s view
Press
-Television coverage
-Kissinger
-Bipartisan leadership meeting
-Newspaper editorials
-Chalmers Roberts
-Kissinger
Safire
-Speech draft
-Length
Personnel
-Kissinger
-Rose Mary Woods
-Alexander P. Butterfield
-William P. Rogers
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Harry S Truman
-Allocation of the President’s time
-Kissinger
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-General John W. Vogt, Jr.
-Briefing
-Safire’s speech draft
-Kissinger
-Allocation of the President’s time
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Edwin L. Harper
[The President talked with the White House operator at 12:47 pm]
[Conversation No. 457-5A]
Call to Haig
[End of telephone conversation]
Personnel
-Ehrlichman
[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 12:47 pm and
1:24 pm]
[Conversation No. 457-5B]
Haig’s schedule
[End of telephone conversation]
Personnel
-Haig
-Admiral Thomas H. Moorer
Forthcoming briefing
-Kissinger
-President’s view
-Kissinger
-Vogt
-Safire
-Vogt
[Haldeman talked with Kissinger at an unknown time between 12:47 pm and 1:24 pm]
[Conversation No. 457-5C]
Briefing for the President
-Vogt
-Scheduling
-Speech preparation
-Safire’s role
[End of telephone conversation]
The President’s schedule
-Kissinger
-Role in speech
-Safire
-Attendance at briefings
-President’s view
-Speech preparation
-Safire’s role
-National Security Study Memoranda [NSSMs]
-President’s view
Vogt
-Present location
-Press briefing
-Meeting with the President and Kissinger
-Safire
-Speech
Kissinger left at an unknown time before 1:24 pm
Rogers
-Previous trip with the President
-Walker’s Key
The President’s schedule
-Kissinger
-Role in briefings
-Melvin R. Laird
-Bureaucratic position
Cabinet officers
-Communication
-Laird
-Ehrlichman
-President’s position
-Kissinger
-John N. Mitchell
-Staff participation
-Rogers
-Middle East views
-Kissinger
-Middle East views
-Paperwork
-Compared with Ehrlichman
-National Security Council [NSC] staff
-State Department
-Staff work
-Allocation of President’s time
-“Paper route”
-Rogers
-Allocation of President’s time
-Connally
-Mitchell
-Laird
-Rogers
-Moorer
-Kissinger
-Safire speech draft
-Rogers
-Cabinet officers
-Access to the President
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Laird
-Mitchell
-Staff versus Cabinet
-Ehrlichman
-George P. Shultz
-Kissinger
-Compared to Ehrlichman
-Cabinet officers
Southeast Asia portion of speech
-United States’ interests
-Wording
-Safire
-Length
Democratic proposal on Vietnam
-Possible Administration response
-Robert J. Dole
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-President’s position
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Dole
-Hugh Scott
-Differing proposals within Democratic Party
-White House strategy
-Muskie
-W[illiam] Averell Harriman
-Withdrawal
-Support for President
-Muskie
-Administration response
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Laird
-Rogers
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Administration response
-Democratic caucus
-Withdrawal proposal
-Intra-party opposition
-Dole
-Buchanan
-Franklyn C. (“Lyn”) Nofziger
-Charles W. Colson
-Safire
-Haldeman’s role
-Rogers
-Laird
-Kissinger
-Ziegler
-Possible press questions
-Need for Administration response
-Buchanan
-Dole
-White House strategy
-News summary
-Dole
-Rogers and Laird
-Ziegler
-Withdrawal
-Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Effect of Democratic proposal
-Jackson
Campus activity
-May Day demonstration
-Problems
-Students for a Democratic Society [SDS]
-Charlton Heston
-Foreign pornography
-Hollywood unemployment
-President’s position
-General quality of movies
-President’s view
-Haldeman’s view
The President’s schedule
-Eisenhower dinner
-Hope
-Speech preparation
-Meeting
-Attendance
-Kissinger
-Vogt
-Moorer
-Old Executive Office Building
Haldeman left at 1:24 pmNo transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.