Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 490 › Conversation 490-006

Nixon & Haig on White House administration and Oval Office operations

Thursday, April 29, 1971 · 12:52 PM–12:53 PM ET · Oval Office · 11 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.Conversation490-006 on Tape 490 (tape position 00:36:21–00:37:09)StartThursday, April 29, 1971 at 12:52 PMEndThursday, April 29, 1971 at 12:53 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 490-006 ↗

President Nixon met briefly with Alexander M. Haig, Jr. in the Oval Office to coordinate his official daily schedule. The conversation focused on logistical arrangements regarding upcoming presidential meetings. No further policy developments or complex issues were addressed during this short interaction.

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On April 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:52 pm to 12:53 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 490-006 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 490-6

Date: April 29, 1971
Time: 12:52 pm - 12:53 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr..

     President's schedule
           -Meeting
  • 490-002 12:04 PM · 29 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Valerija B. Raulinaitis, Robert E. Hampton, Barbara H. Franklin, Vickie L. Keller, Jayne B. Spain, Sallyanne Payton, Frederic V. Malek, Stephen B. Bull, White House photographer, Ronald L. Ziegler, Tricia Nixon Cox, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:04 pm to 12:42 pm.
  • 490-003 12:42 PM · 22 sec — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:42 pm and 12:52 pm.
  • 490-004 12:42 PM · 1 min — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:42 pm and 12:52 pm.
  • 490-005 12:52 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Howell Conant met in the Oval Office of the White House at 12:52 pm.
  • 490-007 12:53 PM · 24 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:53 pm to 1:17 pm.
  • 251-033 1:17 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:17 pm and 2:53 pm.
  • 251-034 1:17 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:17 pm and 2:53 pm.
  • 490-008 1:17 PM · 1 min — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 1:17 pm on April 29, 1971 and 7:39 am on May 4, 1971.

Conversation 490-006, April 29, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/490-006 (accessed October 12, 2026).