Conversation: 670-021
Prev: 670-020 Next: 670-022Start Date: 14-Feb-1972 3:47 PM
End Date: 14-Feb-1972 4:07 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.; Ehrlichman, John D.;Recording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 04:45:10
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 05:04:20
NARA Description:
On February 14, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:47 pm to 4:07 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 670-021 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 670-21
Date: February 14, 1972
Time: 3:47 pm - 4:07 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull and John D. Ehrlichman.
Meeting
-Instructions for Alexander P. Butterfield
-Andre Malraux
-Interpreter
-Sophia K. Porson
-Attendance at dinner
-Potential problem
-Henry A. Kissinger
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:07 pm.
Ehrlichman’s schedule
-Talk with John B. Connally
-Timing
Arthur F. Burns
-Meeting
-Money supply
-Ehrlichman
-Informing Connally
-George P. Shultz
-Controls
-Connally
-Ehrlichman’s agreement with Shultz
-Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Notes
-Weekly reports
-Cabinet
-Caspar W. (“Cap”) Weinberger
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Talk with Ehrlichman
-Shultz
-Monthly reports from Weinberger
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 670-21 (cont.)
-Weekly reports
-Agreed to by Ehrlichman
-Treasury Department
-Withholding law
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Previous meeting with Ehrlichman
-Ehrlichman’s disappointment
Busing
-Courts
-The President’s schedule
-Florida primary
-High visibility
-Press
-Ehrlicman’s view
-The President’s possible statement
-Equal education
-Racial balance
-Use of “massive”
-A question of quality education
-Courts
-Howard H. Baker, Jr. amendment
-Thomas J. (“Tom”) Steed
-Chief Justice [Warren E. Burger]
-John N. Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Steed
-Style
-Chief Justice’s count
-Connally
-Candidate for governor
-Texas
-Justices
-Drugs
-Housing
-Alexander M. Bickel
-Legislation
-Congressmen
-Judges
-Constitutional amendment
-Baker
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 670-21 (cont.)
-Precedent
-Ehrlichman
-Statement
-Importance
-Liberals
-Congressmen
-Gerald R. Ford
-Memorandum
-Democrats
-Steed
-Budget session
-Statement
-Constitutional amendment
-Mitchell
-Involvement
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Solicitor General [Erwin N. Griswold]
-Civil Rights Division of Justice Department
-Problems
-Mitchell
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Mitchell
-David L. Norman
-Mitchell
-Possible replacement
-Edward L. Morgan
-Phoenix
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. [?]
-Bureaucracy
-Morgan
-Memorandum
-Morgan
-Representation of school districts
Economy
-Connally
-Follow-up by Ehrlichman
Bull entered at an unknown time after 3:47 pm.
The President’s schedule
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 670-21 (cont.)
Bull left at an unknown time before 4:07 pm.
[No conversation]
Economy
-Connally
-Instruction to Ehrlichman to reassure concerning Burns
-Herbert Stein
-Background
-Shultz
-Connally’s trust
-Ehrlichman’s role
-Schedule
-Texas
-Rumsfeld
-Controls
-Connally
-Rumsfeld
-Shultz
-Involvement
-Peter M. Flanigan [?]
-Ehrlichman’s talk with Connally
-Shultz
-Connally’s reservations
-Rumsfeld
-Press conference
-Rumsfeld communicating with Shultz
-Frequency
-Controls
-Connally and Shultz
-International economics
-Differences and similarities
Ehrlichman left at 4:07 pm.