Conversation 911-018

On May 3, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, William Brock, Howard H. Baker, Jr., Ronald McMahan, C. E. Waldon, J. W. Beard, Robert Cheeseman, Jack Reese, Alan Wright, Kitty Moon, Horace N. Moore, Mrs. Horace N. Moore, William E. Timmons, Max L. Friedersdorf, and Oliver F. ("Ollie") Atkins met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:03 am to 11:10 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 911-018 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 911-18

Date: May 3, 1973
Time: 11:03 am - 11:10 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with William E. Brock III, Howard H. Baker, Jr., Ronald McMahan, C. E.
Waldon, J. W. Beard, Robert Cheeseman, Jack Reese, Alan Wright, Kitty Moon, Horace N.
Moore, Mrs. Horace N. Moore, William E. Timmons, Max Friedersdorf, and Oliver F. (“Ollie”)
Atkins.

       Introductions       

              -Greetings to Baker and Brock [?] 

              -C. E. Waldon          

                     -Mayor of Martin, Tennessee            

                     -Centennial         

              -Robert Cheeseman           

                     -Martin         

              -Jack Reese        

              -Alan Wright         

              -Fay [?] Moore           

              -Horace Moore            

                     -Washington, DC

       Arrangements for photographs
             -Tennessee         

                    -Baker and Brock          

                    -Centennial commemoration           

                            -President’s attendance
                            -July 4

       President’s foreign visitors 

              -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] 

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                                                                           Conversation No. 911-18 (cont’d)

               -Kakeui, Tanaka
               -Haile Selassie                     

                      -Lions                   

                      -Dog             


       Presentation of gifts 

              -Letters regarding Vietnam cease-fire 

                      -Fourth grade children       

              -Photograph [?] with names 


       Youth        

               -Teachers, parents      

                      -[First name unknown] Meyer [?] 


       Presentation of gifts by President

       Congressmen         

             -Investigation                    


       President’s schedule                

              -Timmons             


       Candidates

       John B. Connally 

              -Party affiliation                       


Brock et al. left at 11:10 a.m.

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You're welcome.
Thank you.
All right, guys.
All right, now this is the name of our great state, you guys are the great senators.
I wish
You're tall enough to be here today.
I'm already asked to leave.
Go ahead and leave, Mr. President.
That's what it's like to see the array.
Yeah.
She has two big dogs.
Right, right.
I like that picture.
It's really scary.
Oh, yeah.
It's scary.
This is the heart.
This is the heart.
This is the heart.
This is the heart.
This is the heart.
This is the heart.
We all
I really admire, you know, the teachers, mothers, fathers, and kids building it.
And they brought it to me every day through December and January.
They went out and brought the cameras and set it for everybody.
And I said,
We have a presidential seat.
All right.
Thank you.
That should be it.
Well, that was a great one.