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Nixon, Heald & Hill on Dallas Cowboys and Drug prevention

Tuesday, March 28, 1972 · 12:34 PM–12:43 PM ET · Oval Office · 9 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Heald, Kevin; Heald, Raymond (Mrs.); Heald, Raymond; Hensen, Robert L.; Wieting, Frederick C.; Hill, Calvin; Miller, Jack R.; Scali, John A.; White House photographerConversation695-006 on Tape 695 (tape position 02:37:05–02:45:47)StartTuesday, March 28, 1972 at 12:34 PMEndTuesday, March 28, 1972 at 12:43 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 695-006 ↗

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President Nixon met with Dallas Cowboys player Calvin Hill, Kevin Heald, and several guests for a photo opportunity and gift exchange in the Oval Office. The discussion focused on professional football, including the Cowboys' team performance and injuries to various players in the league. Additionally, the President and Hill discussed Hill's charitable work with youth drug prevention programs, with Nixon commending his efforts to help prevent addiction.

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How are you?
How are you?
I recognize this thought.
Well, I appreciate the great job you've done.
Also, congratulations.
Well, you know, of course it makes you feel good.
Why would the group break up?
Nobody was going to beat the Cowboys that day.
Nobody was going to beat the Cowboys that day.
Nobody was going to beat the Cowboys.
Nobody was going to beat the Cowboys that day.
Nobody was going to beat the Cowboys that day.
I'm people like that.
Well, often.
So you can come up to me.
I'm going to talk to you when you come.
We've got a picture of you and Kelly.
So you haven't actually done that.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Right.
You know, when I was receiving the football out for those other people, I didn't think they were going to be real strong.
Because they're also big.
Right, right.
Well, I was a big part of it.
Yeah.
You know, the...
Oh, just like that.
Now that's funny.
I'll put my name on it, too.
I said many things, but I'll put my name on it.
There you go.
So he has time to move the football.
You don't need it.
You don't need it.
That's a way to go there.
That's a way to go there.
That's a way to go.
That's good.
Now we're going to give you the pen beside you.
Put that in the box.
I'll put that in the box for you.
There you are.
I've got other things for you to answer.
Don't you like art?
I'll show you.
I'll show you.
I'll show you.
Now let's see, we've always got little boys.
This is a viewfinder you can look at the space and, you know, you take a long view.
That's just viewing your whole time.
Now, let's see, she's got a couple of those.
Where is she?
I'm calling the folks.
She's been coming.
She's always coming.
She's always coming.
She's always coming.
She's always coming.
Senator gets a bookmark and throws it at you.
What else can we do?
Well, I want to say to you, Doug, that we appreciate what a great start, and we're happy for you.
Because he's been very active, and I'm proud to have made one of those commercials with his blogger friends.
I saw that at the reception.
Yeah, I thought that was a great call.
He is a fine leader.
Yeah, I think we've had that from the government,
Yeah, that's right.
In the second Washington game, when the first bowl was in play, it was going to be Washington.
I don't know where he'd be now.
But the work he's doing now, and the work that he's doing right now, is a wonderful service.
I know you're a follow-up on the team, but I don't know any of them.
You're asked to do these things, and you wonder, you know, what you're going to participate in, what you're going to follow up on.
We appreciate it.
Right, Jack?
We appreciate it.
We appreciate all the people, and some people really look out for you.
You're always going to be successful.
All right.
Thank you.
That's my job.
That's my job.
That's right.
Well, you know, you help kids.
And you're helping them come through here.
And also .
It could be one kid becoming an addict.
It's worth it.
Just one.
When you see what happens, it's wrong.
I mean, you know, I've dealt with me .
You get hooked with that stuff, and then you get down.
It's all free to me.
I'll catch you again someday.
Robbie, how are you watching this?
Well, it's funny because it's not the best game ever.
I was at Washington and I was not good that day.
Today, I get two innings to go.
But I will go play a game, I will go play a game with the Tetsons.
I will look at it.
You know, it's an interesting thing.
Charlie Taylor, who's the... Charlie, I mentioned not being injured.
Well, they would have given you a...
He broke his foot.
I'd like to see you now.

NARA Description

On March 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Kevin Heald, Mrs. Raymond Heald, Raymond Heald, Robert L. Hensen, Frederick C. Wieting, Calvin Hill, Jack R. Miller, John A. Scali, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:34 pm to 12:43 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 695-006 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 695-6

Date: March 28, 1972
Time: 12:34 - 12:43 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Kevin Heald, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Heald, Robert L. Jensen, Frederick
C. Wieting, Calvin Hill, Jack R. Miller, John E. Nidecker, and John A. Scali; members of the
press and the White House photographer were present at the beginning of the meeting.
     Greetings

     Introductions
           -Kevin Heald
           -Calvin Hill
                -Dallas Cowboys
                      -Miami Dolphins

     Photographs

     Gifts
             -Football
                  -Players

     Gift presentations
           -Football
                -Signature

     Dallas Cowboys

     Gift presentation

     Hill
             -Football career
             -Drug program
                  -Hill's role
             -Youth
             -Team members
             -Drug program
                  -Objective

     The President's schedule
          -Previous New York trip
               -Drugs
                      -Heroin

     Tour of the White House

     Washington Redskins
         -Cowboys
               -Hill’ injury
               -Charles B. (“Bud”) Wilkinson
               -Tom Landry
         -Charlie Taylor
               -Health
         -Jerry Smith
         -Larry Brown
         -George E. Allen, Landry

Heald et. al. left at 12:43 pm.

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  • 695-005 12:29 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:29 pm and 12:34 pm.
  • 695-007 12:43 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:43 pm to 12:44 pm.
  • 695-008 12:44 PM · 1 hr 26 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Clark MacGregor, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, Manolo Sanchez, and Charles W. Colson met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:44 pm to 2:10 pm.
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  • 022-037 2:20 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:20 pm and 5:30 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 695-006, March 28, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/695-006 (accessed October 1, 2026).