Conversation: 556-009
Prev: 556-008 Next: 556-010Start Date: Friday, August 6, 1971 4:06 PM
End Date: Friday, August 6, 1971 4:13 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Whitaker, John C.; Train, Russell E.; Cahn, Robert; MacDonald, Gordon J. F.; Butterfield, Alexander P.; Woods, Rose MaryRecording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 01:50:22
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 01:58:56
NARA Description:
On August 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, John C. Whitaker, Russell E. Train, Robert Cahn, Gordon J. F. MacDonald, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:06 pm to 12:13 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 556-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 556-9
Date: August 6, 1971
Time: 12:06 pm - 12:13 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with John C. Whitaker, Russell E. Train, Robert Cahn, Gordon J. F.
MacDonald, and Alexander P. Butterfield; press photographers were present at the beginning of
the meeting.
Washington Post
President's visit to New York
-"No, No, Nanette"
-Ruby Keeler
-Bobby Van
[Photograph session]
-General conversation
-Environmentalism
-Clean air and water
-San Clemente
Rose Mary Woods [?] entered at an unknown time after 12:06 pm.
-Texas, Oklahoma, Massachusetts
Woods [?] left at an unknown time before 12:13 pm.
Report
Anecdote
-Bert Andrews
-New York Herald-Tribune
-State Department coverage
-John Foster Dulles
-Illustration of environmentalism
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 556-9 (cont.)
Dinner
-Unknown person's wife
Unknown person
President’s schedule
-California
Council on Environmental Quality staff
-President's appreciation for work
Presentation of gifts by President
-Paperweights
Whitaker, et al. left at 12:13 pm.