281–34

Conversation No. 281-34

Date: October 21, 1971
Time: 1:17 pm - 1:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Richard A. Moore.
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 281-34(cont.)


The President's speech on Supreme Court appointments
-Materials requested by the President
-William H. Rehnquist
-Standing in law school class
-Law clerk
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Rehnquist
-Phi Beta Kappa
-Stanford law school
-Law clerk
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Powell
-Honorary degrees
-Background material for press
-Timing
-Powell
-Rehnquist
-Judicial philosophy
-Jacob K. Javits
-Rehnquist

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 1:17 pm and
1:55 pm.

[Conversation No. 281-34A]

Material for the President's speech on Supreme Court appointments
-Statistical information on number of appointments per year
-Commissions
-Boards
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Courts

[End of telephone conversation]

The President rehearsed a speech at an unknown time between 1:17 pm and 1:55 pm.

[A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents,
Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 1053-1057]

Speech text
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Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 281-34(cont.)


-Hugo L. Black, John M. Harlan
-Wording
-Political philosophies
-Black
-Powell
-Richmond, Virginia school system
-Desegregation efforts
-Chief Justice John Marshall

Years of active law practice
-Current justices
-The President's appointees

Rehnquist
-Qualifications

White House staff's foreknowledge of Supreme Court nominees
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Moore
-Haldeman
-Ronald W. Reagan
-John W. Dean, III

The President's speech on Supreme Court nominations
-Moore’s view
-Political philosophy of appointees
-Changes in text
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Wording
-Moore’s suggestions
-Rehnquist

Moore's schedule

Notifications of the President's speech

Moore left at 1:55 pm.