Conversation: 491-031
Prev: 491-030 Next: 491-032Start Date: Wednesday, May 5, 1971 4:23 PM
End Date: Wednesday, May 5, 1971 4:43 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Tower, John G.; Lee, Robert D. ("Bob"); Lee, Jill; Blasé , A. J. ("Bob"); Moore, Richard A.; Bull, Stephen B.; Atkins, Oliver F. ("Ollie")Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:58:26
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 05:15:36
NARA Description:
On May 5, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, John G. Tower, Robert D. ("Bob") Lee, Jill Lee, A. J. ("Bob") Blasé, Richard A. Moore, Stephen B. Bull, and Oliver F. ("Ollie") Atkins met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:23 pm to 12:43 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 491-031 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 491-31
Date: May 5, 1971
Time: 12:23 pm - 12:43 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John G. Tower, Robert D. ("Bob") Lee, Jill Lee, A. J. ("Bob") Blase, and
Richard A. Moore; members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.
Introductions
Goodwill Industries
[General conversation]
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-Lapel pin
[Camera noise]
[General conversation]
Presentation of gifts
-Tie clasp
Conv. No. 491-30 (cont.)
Goodwill Industries
Press
Lee, Mrs. Lee, Blase, and Moore left at 12:28 pm.
[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from
December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M.
Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration produced this
transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]
[End of transcript]
President's visit to Lyndon B. Johnson Library
-Invitation to Tower
-President's schedule
-Florida
-Ben F. Barnes
-President's schedule
-Plane
-Johnson
-Library
Texas drought
-[Preston Smith]
-Clifford M. Hardin
-Political impact
-Administration position
-Congress
-Tower's and Robert D. Price's bill
-Democrats
-John B. Connally
-Hardin
-John D. Ehrlichman
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-Domestic Council
-Disaster declaration
-Hardin
-President's possible memoranda
-Tower's schedule
-Ehrlichman
-Price
-Bill Conv. No. 491-31 (cont.)
-Federal relief
-Loans
-Hay
-Credit
-Small Business Administration [SBA]
-President's position
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:28 pm.
Photograph
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.
Decade of service dinner for Tower, May 27, 1971
-Dallas
-Possible film clip by President
-Tape
-Radio
-Message
Atkins entered at an unknown time after 12:28 pm.
Photograph
-Distribution
-Texas papers
Atkins left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.
Texas drought
-Rain
-Crops
-Cattlemen
-Texas and Oklahoma
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-New Mexico
-Political impact
-Ehrlichman's possible call to H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-President's conversation with Hardin
-Democrats
-Administration's position
-Domestic Council
Bull entered at 12:43 pm. Conv. No. 491-31 (cont.)
President's schedule
-Haldeman
Bull and Tower left at 12:43 pm.