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576–11
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • White House operator
  • John N. Mitchell
  • Ronald L. Ziegler
September 20, 1971
Conversation No. 576-11

Date: September 20, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:47 am and 12:01 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

Schedule
-Arthur F. Burns
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 576-10 (cont.)



Supreme Court appointment
-John M. Harlan
-Chief Justice's [Warren E. Burger] conversation with John M. Mitchell
-Announcement of Harlan vacancy
-Timing

The President's schedule
-Meeting with Burns
-Troika meeting
-John B. Connally
-International Monetary Fund [IMF] reception
-Connally
-Sheraton Park Hotel
-Comparison to the President's stays at the Waldorf Hotel
-United Nations [UN]
-Finance ministers
-Leisurely tone
-Forthcoming Florida visit
-Economic meeting
-Forthcoming Soviet Union announcement
-Florida
-Disney World visit
-Camp David
-Meeting with Connally and George P. Shultz
-Lillian Marie Disney
-Disney World
-Hall of Presidents

Announcement of Harlan resignation

The President's schedule
-Burns meeting

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 11:47 am and
12:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 576-11A]

[See Conversation 9-92]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 576-11 (cont.)


[End of telephone conversation]

Supreme Court
-Appointment of two Justices at once
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Abe Fortas
-W. Homer Thornberry
-Harlan
-Spiro T. Agnew
-Connally

The President talked with Mitchell between 11:59 am and 12:00 pm.

[Conversation No. 576-11B]

[See Conversation No. 9-93]

[End of telephone conversation]

Press briefing announcement
-Chief Justice
-Appointment of four members
-Thurgood Marshall
-Gen. Walter R. Tkach
-Press view
-Hospital

Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 12:00 pm.

Washington Senators baseball team
-Move from Washington DC
-The President as baseball fan
-Robert Short's statement
-Call from Morrie Siegal
-Role of Baltimore Orioles
-Short
-Stadium site
-Departure
-Perception of danger around ballpark
-Football day games, baseball day games
-Attendees
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 576-11 (cont.)



The President’s schedule
-Connally
-Unknown person
-Possible removal

Ziegler and Haldeman left at 12:01 pm.
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