{"conversationCode":"461-017","tapeNumber":461,"conversationNumber":17,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-461-017","startDateTime":"1971-03-02T18:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-03-02T18:42:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Mar-1971","startTime":"1:35 PM","endDate":"2-Mar-1971","endTime":"1:42 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\"); Acker, Marjorie P.; Woods, Rose Mary; Sanchez, Manolo;","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. 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Heath\n\nAcker left at an unknown time before 1:42 pm\n    The President’s schedule\n           -Meeting on economic policy\n                  -Kissinger, Peterson, and Ehrlichman\n                  -Foreign policy implications\n                  -Domestic policy implications\n                  -Kissinger\n                  -Peterson\n\nAcker entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm\n\n     Item(s) for filing\n          -Mamie G. D. Eisenhower\n\n     President’s letter to Heath\n          -Spelling and punctuation\n\nWoods entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm\n\n           -Delivery\n                -Walter H. Annenberg\n           -Copy\n                -Annenberg\n                -State Department\n\nAcker and Woods left at an unknown time before 1:42 pm\n\n                -Effect on Annenberg\n\n     [Unintelligible]\n\nManolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:35 pm\n\n     Greetings\n\nThe President, et al. left at 1:42 pm","filename":["461-017.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:49:24","tapeEnd":"02:57:01","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\")","Acker, Marjorie P.","Woods, Rose Mary","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"461-016","nextCode":"462-001","transcript":[{"start":3.81,"end":30.58,"text":"We'll get the leaders meeting done as a part of the early meeting for sure."},{"start":39.64,"end":50.29,"text":"They got Henry there."},{"start":50.31,"end":50.88,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":50.9,"end":53.28,"text":"Who's going to broker that?"},{"start":53.3,"end":54.54,"text":"John."},{"start":54.82,"end":58.29,"text":"It was John's suggestion."},{"start":58.31,"end":59.47,"text":"Would you bring that cutter to Keith?"},{"start":62.69,"end":81.72,"text":"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."},{"start":82.84,"end":84.44,"text":"Our political core policy is very young, and also domestic political."},{"start":84.47,"end":86.67,"text":"Oh yeah, so yes, those three of you got to be together."},{"start":86.87,"end":88.93,"text":"They said, Henry's not alone, he's about to get a government answer."},{"start":91.27,"end":106.18,"text":"He's got, he's got a test."},{"start":108.56,"end":113.99,"text":"Here's the file."},{"start":137.11,"end":167.05,"text":"All right."},{"start":169.52,"end":172.26,"text":"There's a fat graphical."},{"start":172.28,"end":173.34,"text":"It's Gorton."},{"start":174.09,"end":175.42,"text":"G-O-R-T-O-Y rather than Gordon."},{"start":222.8,"end":247.2,"text":"All right."},{"start":247.22,"end":247.42,"text":"All right."},{"start":253.43,"end":261.58,"text":"Good."},{"start":266.61,"end":275.88,"text":"Hello."},{"start":275.9,"end":276.26,"text":"Yeah, that's good."},{"start":276.28,"end":276.66,"text":"That's good, I see."},{"start":276.68,"end":278.3,"text":"And, uh, he didn't, uh, he didn't have a personal copy of it."},{"start":278.59,"end":290.43,"text":"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."},{"start":290.45,"end":292.06,"text":"That is a personal communication, not to be distributed to the State Department."},{"start":323.83,"end":335.48,"text":"We'll be right back."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"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.","topics":["Economic Policy","Executive Scheduling","Edward Heath","Walter Annenberg","State Department","Diplomatic Correspondence"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T21:09:51.908Z"},"topicSlugs":["economic-policy","executive-scheduling","edward-heath","walter-annenberg","state-department","diplomatic-correspondence"],"audioDurationSec":335,"audioFiles":[{"file":"461-017.mp3","bytes":8051773,"durationSec":335.43,"bitrate":192035,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:47.662Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/461-017.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/461-017","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/461/conversation-461-017","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). 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