Conversation 480-010

TapeTape 480StartThursday, April 15, 1971 at 12:41 PMEndThursday, April 15, 1971 at 1:18 PMTape start time01:29:47Tape end time02:01:15ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob");  Bull, Stephen B.;  Ziegler, Ronald L.;  Sutherland, John P. ("Jack");  Ehrlichman, John D.Recording deviceOval Office

On April 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, Ronald L. Ziegler, John P. ("Jack") Sutherland, and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:41 pm and 1:18 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 480-010 of the White House Tapes.

The President’s schedule
          -Instructions regarding meeting [with Moulay Ahmed Laraki]
          -Emil (“Bus”) Mosbacher, Jr.

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$400, sir.
100.
You're amazing.
of the Democrats nominating Alfred Jackson.
Sir, you must see.
We're going to do the TV the following week.
Yeah.
All right.
Thank you, sir.
See you.
See you.
I don't want to waste your time.
I know.
Initially, you want to make good vaccines.
You don't get an office press conference.
You want to make a lot of news of that and die the next week with a TV press conference.
and keeping it down for one or two days.
It's really not that good.
Thank you very much.
it's just a, was anybody
they talking about?
They're trying to create
Did you explain the budget reduction in a way that was similar to the report you gave?
Or did you discuss the matter with maybe just the other figures?
Or how did you raise it?
I was very disappointed that it had been downplayed as minor figures and we had to get our own three out on the figures.
Our interpretation of it.
before I come to this office.
Anything I do with this life, some of it will die.
let him do something and then bring him in and thank him for doing it instead of starting it now.
I just wonder if, uh, some of those things will be overreacted.
I mean, just, you know, everybody that you've been brushing up, you can have a little change, but if you don't want it, I don't think you're going to be able to do it.
I think you're going to be able to see the opposite of your last name.
Okay.
Okay.