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589–1
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Stephen B. Bull
  • John N. Mitchell
  • John D. Ehrlichman
  • UNKNOWN
October 12, 1971
Conversation No. 589-1

Date: October 12, 1971
Time: Unknown between 4:20 pm and 4:37 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Stephen B. Bull, John N. Mitchell, and John D. Ehrlichman.
[This recording begins at an unknown time while conversation is in progress]

The President's schedule

Congressman F. Edward Hebert
-House Armed Services Committee

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:37 pm.

-Southern oratory
-Hebert

Supreme Court appointments
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Herschel H. Friday
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Religion
-Husband's ethnic background
-John A. Volpe
-Iowa
-Volpe
-Judicial experience
-Law school
-Record
-Reversals by the Supreme Court
-Criminal cases
-Conservative stance
-Busing
-Mithcell’s assessment
-The President’s view
-California Supreme Court
-Edmund G. (“Pat”) Brown
-Friday

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 4:20 pm.
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 589-1 (cont.)



The President's schedule
-Cabinet meeting
-Bull

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:37 pm.

Supreme Court appointments
-Friday
-Law firm
-Arkansas
-Clerk to Judge John E. Miller
-University of Arkansas
-American Bar Association [ABA] House of Delegates
-Board of Governors
-Conservative background
-Mitchell’s assessment
-Compared with Warren E. Burger
-Clients
-School boards
-Possible problem
-Thurgood Marshall
-John L. McClellan
-Democrat
-Law practice
-Pat Mahaffey
-Klu Klux Klan
-Wife
-William H. Rehnquist
-Clients
-Missouri Pacific Railroad
-John M. Harlan
-Burger
-Harry A. Blackmun
-Knowledge of business
-Harlan
-Age
-Clement F. Haynsworth
-Background check on credentials
-Johnnie M. Walters
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 589-1 (cont.)


-Lillie
-Investigation
-Husband
-Julius Caesar
-Friday
-Confirmation hearings
-Haynsworth hearings
-Possible question
-William O. Douglas
-Conservatives
-The President’s view
-Jew
-Edward H. Levi

Bull entered at an unknown time after 4:20 pm.

The President's schedule

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:37 pm.

Supreme Court appointment
-Lillie
-Sylvia Bacon
-Friday
-Charles Clark
-Herman E. Talmadge
-Robert C. Byrd
-Submission to ABA
-Background
-US attorney in Baltimore
-Daniel B. Brewster
-[Forename unknown] Long
-Brewster, Cyrus T. Anderson, Spiegel, Inc.
-Democrats
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Lawrence E. Walsh
-Lillie, Friday
-Bar
-William French Smith
-Byrd
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
Conv. No. 589-1 (cont.)


-Press reports
-Friday
-Reaction of Senators
-Gordon L. Allott
-Republicans
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Robert P. Griffin
-Friday
-[Forename unknown] Rockefeller

The President et al. left at 4:37 pm.
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