President Nixon met with Rose Mary Woods and others to coordinate his upcoming travel schedule and discuss the performance of his cabinet members. He praised John Connally for his strong, decisive leadership while criticizing Secretary of State William P. Rogers for his perceived lack of assertiveness and political fortitude. Later, the President met with political cartoonist Bob Murphy to discuss campaign memorabilia and the role of political expression in America versus restricted regimes.
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 AidConversation No. 495-14
Time: 11:58 am - 12:17 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
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]
[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
-Date
-Letter to Lee
-Possible event
Peter G. Peterson
-Briefing
-Woods’ contacts
-Briefing
-Woods’ views
Maurice H. Stans
-Personnel actions
-Republican National Finance Committee Chairman
-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
-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.
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
-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
William Loeb
Presentation of gifts
-Presidential cufflinks
-Pen
President's EOB office
-Cartoon collection
-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
[Unintelligible]
Golf balls
Vice President Agnew
[Unintelligible]
Yugoslavian cartoon
[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
Conv. court
No. 495-28
order from
(cont.)
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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