Secret White House Tapes

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8–113
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Nelson A. Rockefeller
September 13, 1971
Conversation No. 8-113

Date: September 13, 1971
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Time: 1:31 pm - 1:38 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Nelson A. Rockefeller.

[See Conversation No. 571-1C]
New York
-Attica prison uprising
-The President's schedule
-Talk with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Rockefeller’s call
-President’s inability to return
-Cabinet meeting
-Business leaders meeting
-Rockefeller's handling
-Amnesty
-Newspapers
-Possible consequences
-Nation’s prisons
-Casualties
-Troops
-Response by law authorities
-Rockefeller’s call
-Hostages
-Number
-Prisoners
-Number
-Helicopters
-Gas attack
-Sharpshooters
-Report
-Seven hostage deaths
-Guards
-Time of death
-Thirty-two prisoners killed
-Additional casualties
-Blacks
-Killed
-Response by law authorities
-Reasons for using force
-Killing guards
-Attacks on authority
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-Trooper casualty
-President’s view
-Admiration
-Anarchy
-Russell G. Oswald
-Head of New York prisons
-Background
-John N. Mitchell
-Spiro T. Agnew
-National conspiracy theory
-Support for the President
-Television
-Puerto Ricans
-Killing
-Guard
-Castration
-President’s view
-Citizens Committee
-Thomas Grey (Tom”) Wicker
-Request of prisoners
-William Kunstler
-Head of Mau-Maus
-Legislators
-Wicker
-Support of prisoners
-Request for Rockefeller to come to Attica
-Wicker
-Amnesty
-John V. Lindsay
-Negotiations

Re-election
-President’s prospects

Rockefeller’s possible trip to Puerto Rico
-Stay in New York
-Prison riots
-Attica
-Shipment of bodies
-Possible trouble
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