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Conversation 461-017

TapeTape 461StartTuesday, March 2, 1971 at 1:35 PMEndTuesday, March 2, 1971 at 1:42 PMTape start time02:49:24Tape end time02:57:01ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");  Acker, Marjorie P.;  Woods, Rose Mary;  Sanchez, ManoloRecording deviceOval Office
AI Summary

President Nixon and H. R. Haldeman met to coordinate upcoming staff meetings regarding domestic and foreign economic policy involving Henry Kissinger, Peter Peterson, and John Ehrlichman. Nixon also collaborated with staff members Marjorie P. Acker and Rose Mary Woods to finalize a personal letter addressed to British Prime Minister Edward Heath. The President explicitly directed that a copy of the correspondence be delivered to Ambassador Walter Annenberg for his personal files, while strictly prohibiting its distribution to the State Department.

Economic PolicyExecutive SchedulingEdward HeathWalter AnnenbergState DepartmentDiplomatic Correspondence
AudioNARA Description

On March 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Marjorie P. Acker, Rose Mary Woods, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:35 pm to 1:42 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 461-017 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 461-17

Date: March 2, 1971
Time: 1:35 pm - 1:42 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

     The President’s schedule
          -Executive Office Building
          -Haldeman’s schedule

     Rose Mary Woods

     The President’s schedule
          -John D. Ehrlichman
          -Peter G. Peterson
          -An assignment
          -Henry A. Kissinger’s staff
                -Ehrlichman

Marjorie P. Acker entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm

     President’s letter to Edward R. G. Heath

Acker left at an unknown time before 1:42 pm
    The President’s schedule
           -Meeting on economic policy
                  -Kissinger, Peterson, and Ehrlichman
                  -Foreign policy implications
                  -Domestic policy implications
                  -Kissinger
                  -Peterson

Acker entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm

     Item(s) for filing
          -Mamie G. D. Eisenhower

     President’s letter to Heath
          -Spelling and punctuation

Woods entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm

           -Delivery
                -Walter H. Annenberg
           -Copy
                -Annenberg
                -State Department

Acker and Woods left at an unknown time before 1:42 pm

                -Effect on Annenberg

     [Unintelligible]

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm

     Greetings

The President, et al. left at 1:42 pm
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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We'll get the leaders meeting done as a part of the early meeting for sure.
They got Henry there.
I don't know.
Who's going to broker that?
John.
It was John's suggestion.
Would you bring that cutter to Keith?
I just thought that we, in this first session in particular, that you are going to, well, Henry's got to sit in on these for a reason, that the economic policies are not directly at work many times.
Our political core policy is very young, and also domestic political.
Oh yeah, so yes, those three of you got to be together.
They said, Henry's not alone, he's about to get a government answer.
He's got, he's got a test.
Here's the file.
All right.
There's a fat graphical.
It's Gorton.
G-O-R-T-O-Y rather than Gordon.
All right.
All right.
Good.
Hello.
Yeah, that's good.
That's good, I see.
And, uh, he didn't, uh, he didn't have a personal copy of it.
The ambassador can have a personal copy of it, the ambassador hand it over for his own personal file, but not to be given to the State Department.
That is a personal communication, not to be distributed to the State Department.
We'll be right back.
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