Secret White House Tapes

489–23

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489–23
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander P. Butterfield
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • Henry A. Kissinger
April 26, 1971
Conversation No. 489-23

Date: April 26, 1971
Time: 6:37 pm - 6:45 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield and H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Conv. No. 489-21 (cont.)
President’s previous Chamber of Commerce speech
-Television news
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Haldeman’s view
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]

President's schedule
-Upcoming press conference
-Plane
-Reading
-Henry A. Kissinger

Butterfield left at 6:38 pm.

Television news
-NBC
-Henry Cabot Lodge
-United Nations [UN] anniversary commission
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Demonstrators
-Congress

President's schedule
-Previous meeting with Senators

Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 6:37 pm.

-Kissinger's location

Bull left at an unknown time before 6:40 pm.

President's previous meeting with Senators
-Russell B. Long
-Compared to Republican Senators
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-Hugh Scott
-Robert P. Griffin
-Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Welfare
-Press
-John F. Osborne
Conv. No. 489-23 (cont.)
Kissinger entered at 6:40 pm.
Kissinger's schedule

President's previous meeting with Long and Wallace F. Bennett
-Welfare
-John D. Ehrlichman

[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under court order from
December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums, et al. v. James M.
Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records Administration produced this
transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]

Senate
-Hubert H. Humphrey

The President, Haldeman and Kissinger left at 6:45 pm.
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