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Conversation 500-021

TapeTape 500StartTuesday, May 18, 1971 at 2:14 PMEndTuesday, May 18, 1971 at 2:30 PMTape start time02:42:59Tape end time02:43:48ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Ehrlichman, John D.Recording deviceOval Office
AudioNARA Description

On May 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:14 pm and 2:30 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 500-021 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 500-21

Date: May 18, 1971
Time: Unknown between 2:14 pm and 2:30 pm

Location: Oval Office

The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.

[Discontinuities appear in the original recording]

     Statements by Dr. Bertram S. Brown of National Institute of Mental Health
          -President's previous press conference
          -Brown identified
          -Ziegler's briefing

[End of conversation]
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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I want to be sure that, since you won't probably get any dope on this fellow Brown, you get a hold of the signature and get a question put in there so he knocks it down.
You know, and I, yeah, yeah, no, let me say that the reason I'm concerned about it is that I specifically was acting about that at the press conference.
We're supposed to have a procedure where such press conference room, I'm sure, would circulate into the appropriate agencies.
Now, when a son of a bitch like this gets out and makes something exactly the contrary, he's got to be reprimanded.
What is he, a doctor, or what is he?
He's a doctor, is he, or a psychiatrist?
Did we put him in there?
Okay, well, I'll just get Ziegler to knock it down.
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