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Start Date: 7-May-1971 11:58 AM

End Date: 7-May-1971 12:17 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Woods, Rose MaryBull, Stephen B.Klein, Herbert G.Murphy, BobRosenthal, RobertAtkins, Oliver F. ("Ollie")

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:00:34

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:19:13

495a.mp3

495b.mp3

495c.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Stephen B. Bull, Herbert G. Klein, Bob Murphy, Robert Rosenthal, and Oliver F. ("Ollie") Atkins met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:58 am to 12:17 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 495-014 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 495-14

Date: May 7, 1971
Time: 11:58 am - 12:17 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
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     President's schedule
          -Harold Lee's visit
                 -Dates
          -Florida

[The President talked with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 11:58 am and
12:09 pm]
                                                                    Conv. No. 495-14 (cont.)
[Conversation No. 495-14A]

          -Alabama trip
                -Date
                -Dinner
          -A call
          -Unknown persons
          -An aviation[?] event
          -Indianapolis, Indiana
                -Date
          -Columbus, Ohio
          -West Point trip
                -Date
          -Dinner for Frederick L. Hovde
          -Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

[End of telephone conversation]

          -Lee's visit
                -Joseph W. Alsop
                -Lee

     [Pause]

     President's schedule
          -Lee
          -Florida
          -Alabama
          -Lee meeting
                 -Date
                       -Letter to Lee
                       -Possible event

     Peter G. Peterson
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          -Briefing
          -Woods’ contacts
          -Briefing
          -Woods’ views

     Maurice H. Stans
         -Personnel actions
               -Republican National Finance Committee Chairman    Conv. No. 495-14 (cont.)
               -Commerce Department

     Administration spokesmen
         -Cabinet members
         -John B. Connally
               -Talk on revenue sharing
                     -President's positions on Vietnam, revenue sharing
         -William P. Rogers
         -Melvin R. Laird
         -John N. Mitchell
         -Connally
         -Concerns
               -Camp David
               -Meetings with President
               -Seniority
               -Connally
         -Nixon’s experience as Vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower
         -Agnew
               -Statements on the press
         -George W. Romney
         -Volpe
         -Peterson
               -Briefing
                     -Woods' response
         -Stans
               -Stans' strength
         -Connally
               -Possible future
         -Rogers
               -Middle East, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT], Vietnam
               -Work at State Department
               -Compared with Connally

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:58 am.
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     Herbert G. Klein
          -Tour of President's Executive Office Building [EOB] office

Bull left at an unknown time before 12:09 pm

     Connally
         -Appointment to Cabinet                                        Conv. No. 495-14 (cont.)
              -Cabinet response
              -Republicans' response
              -John G. Tower's response

     Congress

     Gerald R. Ford[?]

Klein, Bob Murphy, and Robert Rosenthal entered and Woods left at 12:09 pm.

     Greetings and introductions

     Murphy's recollections of President's campaign
         -Nashua, New Hampshire

     Murphy's cartoons

     Photo arrangements

Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins entered at an unknown time after 12:09 pm.

     Murphy's cartoons
         -Murphy's work
         -Nelson A. Rockefeller
         -Campaign
               -Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.
               -"Old Man of the Mountain"
               -Date

Atkins left at an unknown time before 12:17 pm

           -J. William Fulbright
           -Supersonic Transport [SST]
           -President's election
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     William Loeb
     Presentation of gifts
          -Presidential cufflinks
          -Pen

     President's EOB office
          -Cartoon collection                                         Conv. No. 495-14 (cont.)
                 -Alger Hiss case
                 -1956 primary
                      -Joseph McCarthy
                 -Number

     Cartoonists in America
          -Opportunities
          -Compared with other countries
                -An exhibit in Montreal
                -Communist countries
                     -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR], Yugoslavia
                -European cartoonists

     Marine Corps
          -Unknown man's retirement

     1972

     [Unintelligible]

     Golf balls

     Vice President Agnew

     [Unintelligible]

     Yugoslavian cartoon

[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]
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     A message for unknown person

Klein, et al, left at 12:17 pm



                                                                   Conv. No. 495-14 (cont.)