Conversation No. 281-1

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  8:20 am - 8:30 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Patrick J. Buchanan.

Preparation for the President's October 21, 1971 speech announcing nominations to the Supreme Court
-Chief Justices
-Warren E. Burger
-Poll on the Supreme Court's standing
-Charles W. Colson
-Louis P.  Harris
-Instructions for Buchanan
-Quote from Walter Lippmann 
-Justices' personal philosophy
-John M. Harlan
-Hugo L. Black
-Philosophy of appointees
-Burger
-The President's intent
-Criminal's rights 
-Rights of society
-Wording of statement
-Hippocratic oath
-Timing
-Harris poll
-Quote from Lippmann

News summary
-Supreme Court nomination
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Nobel Peace Prize
-Willy Brandt
-Stock Market
-Cambodia
-Nobel Peace Prize

-Brandt
-World War II service
-Political philosophy
-Berlin Agreement
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Linus Pauling (?)

Buchanan left at 8:30 am.

Conversation No. 281-2

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 am and 9:33 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 9:33 am.

Conversation No. 281-3

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 am and 9:33 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

Conversation No. 281-4

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 am and 9:33 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's October 21, 1971 speech announcing Supreme Court appointees
-William L. Safire
-Notifications
-Timing
-Clark MacGregor
-Charles W. Colson
-John N. Mitchell
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Richard A. Moore
-Ehrlichman
-Mitchell
-Moore
-Efforts
-Leonard Garment
-Herbert G. Klein
-John A. Scali
-Moore’s role

-Question of a woman appointee
-Timing
-Haldeman's schedule
-Moore
-Mitchell
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Warren E. Burger
-Media
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Woman candidate
-Moore
-Mitchell
-Timing
-Stock market
-Possible effect on announcement

Marilyn B. (“Missy”) Chandler
-White House luncheon
-Kennedy women attendance
-Ethel (Skakel) Kennedy
-Possible press story
-Betty Beale
-Mrs. Paul N. McCloskey
-White House luncheon

The President's schedule
-John B. Connally
-The President's dinner with Nobusuke Kishi
-Discussion topics

Conversation No. 281-5

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 am and 9:33 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

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

The President replayed his remarks on a tape recorder.

Conversation No. 281-6

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 8:30 am and 9:33 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Supreme Court appointments
-Richard A. Moore
-Assignment
-News conference
-John N. Mitchell
-William H. Mulligan [?]
-Howard H. Baker
-American Bar Association [ABA] vote
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Administration's response
-Mitchell
-Administration response
-Assignment
-Biography of nominees
-Timing
-Leaks
-John D. Ehrlichman
-John W. Dean III
-William L. Safire
-Leonard Garment

-Notification
-Charles W. Colson
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Role of ABA
-Ziegler’s public comments
-Constitution

Conversation No. 281-7

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  9:33 - 9:39 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

John N. Mitchell talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 12-28]

Conversation No. 281-8

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:39 am and 9:45 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

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

Conversation No. 281-9

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  9:45 am - 9:51 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

John N. Mitchell talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 12-30]

Conversation No. 281-10

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:51 am and 10:06 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

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

Conversation No. 281-11

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:51 am and 10:06 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Media
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Attorney General
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-The President's schedule

Conversation No. 281-12

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 9:51 am and 10:06 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

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

Conversation No. 281-13

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  10:06 am - 10:07 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Patrick J. Buchanan.

Difficulty in finding quotation
-Walter Lippmann
-Newsweek
-Telephone call to Lippmann

Buchanan left at 10:07 am.

Conversation No. 281-70

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  10:07 am - 10:30 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Ronald L. Ziegler.

The President's announcement of appointees to the Supreme Court
-Television time
-Instructions for Ziegler
-Timing and length
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Constitution
-Ziegler's press briefing
-Knowledge of nominees
-John N. Mitchell
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Leak of ABA's ruling
-William L. Safire
-Richard A. Moore
-Press reports
-Barbara Walters
-Dan Rather
-Herschel H. Friday, Lillie
-New York Times
-Fred Graham
-Friday, Lillie
-Possible White House comments
-ABA
-Mitchell
-Moore’s role
-John A. Scali
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Ziegler
-Knowledge of nominees
-Ziegler's schedule
-Moore

-Forthcoming press briefing
-Ziegler’s comments
-Moore
-Forthcoming press briefing
-ABA
-Role
-Senate
-Attorney General
-The President
-Timing of the President's decision
-Instructions for Ziegler
-ABA
-Mitchell
-Timing and length of President’s announcement
-Timing
-Pool of candidates
-ABA
-Mitchell
-Ziegler’s comments to press
-President’s options
-ABA
-Leak
-Ziegler’s comments
-Mitchell
-The President’s reaction
-Lawrence E. Walsh
-Lawyers' ability to maintain confidentiality
-Lillie and Friday
-Views on civil rights
-Effect of publicity
-Potter Stewart
-Pentagon papers
-Speculation on choices
-Ziegler’s comments to press
-Friday and Lillie
-People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative
-Soviet Union initiative
-Phase II initiative
-ABA
-Moore
-Timing of briefing

Ziegler left at 10:28 am.

-Commentators
-Possible briefing
-The President’s instructions
-Scali
-Herbert G. Klein
-Charles W. Colson
-Clark MacGregor

Haldeman left at 10:30 am.

Conversation No. 281-14

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 am and 10:51 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:51 am.

Conversation No. 281-15

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 am and 10:51 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President dictated notes for a speech.

The President's announcement of appointees to the Supreme Court
-Walter Lippmann

Conversation No. 281-16

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 am and 10:51 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman ?].

Assignment for unknown person
-Statistic for the President's October 21, 1971 speech
-Years of active law practice
-Supreme Court Justices

Conversation No. 281-17

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 am and 10:51 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Dictation tape on Supreme Court nominees
-Rose Mary Woods

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 10:51 am.

Conversation No. 281-18

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 pm and 10:51 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person [Stephen B. Bull?].

Dictabelts

The unknown person [Bull?] left at an unknown time before 10:51 am.

Conversation No. 281-19

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 am and 10:51 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

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

Conversation No. 281-20

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 am and 10:51 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-31]

Conversation No. 281-21

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 am and 10:51 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with unknown person.

Manolo Sanchez's schedule

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:51 am.

Conversation No. 281-22

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:30 am and 10:51 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-32]

Conversation No. 281-23

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  10:51 am - 10:52 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 12-33]

Conversation No. 281-24

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:52 am and 10:55 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

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Unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:55 am.

Conversation No. 281-25

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 10:52 am and 10:55 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-34]

Request for a call to John B. Connally

Conversation No. 281-26

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  10:55 am - 11:40 am
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

The President's schedule
-Telephone calls
-The President’s instructions
-Warren E. Burger
-Rose Mary Woods’ role
-John A. Volpe
-Woods’ role
-Herbert G. Klein
-Statements on the President's Supreme Court appointees

Supreme Court appointments
-Media comments
-Klein

Pay Board appointment
-Candidates
-Selection process

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 10:55 am and 11:04 am.

[Conversation No. 281-26A]

[See Conversation No. 12-35]

[End of telephone conversation]

Cabinet
-John N. Mitchell
-Robert H. Finch
-John B. Connally
-Melvin R. Laird
-Use of Presidential plane

The President talked with John B. Connally between 11:04 am and 11:14 am.

[Conversation No. 281-26B]

[See Conversation No. 12-36; two items have been withdrawn from the conversation]

[End of telephone conversation]

Telephone calls
-Mitchell
-Connally

Supreme Court nominations
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s press briefing

Economics
-Pay Board
-Contrasted with the Price Commission
-Confidence of business community
-Importance of appointment

Willy Brandt's winning of Nobel Peace Prize

People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative

Time magazine
-Man of the Year
-Henry A. Kissinger
-William P. Rogers
-The President
-Letters from advertisers
-The President
-Administration’s accomplishments
-Hedley W. Donovan

Nobel Peace Prize
-The President
-Gerard C. Smith
-The President

Supreme Court nominations
-Leaks
-William L. Safire
-Background story
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Richard A. Moore

Ziegler entered at 11:25 am.

Supreme Court appointees
-Possible responses to the media
-Ziegler's schedule
-Attorney General
-ABA
-Role in selection process
-Herschel H. Friday
-Dan Rather
-Friday
-John L. McClellan
-Safire
-John A. Scali
-Possible responses by Ziegler

Ziegler left at 11:30 am.

The President's schedule
-The President's meeting with Ruth Voss
-Francis L. Dale
-Volunteer efforts

Public relations
-Rose Mary Woods
-Efforts
-Possible role
-Jack J. Valenti
-White House staff's attitudes
-Woods
-Connally
-Performance
-Compared with other Cabinet members

William P. Rogers
-Kissinger
-Soviet Union
-Legislative meeting
-Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]
-John Foster Dulles
-Role
-Mitchell
-Connally
-Mitchell
-John Sears
-Patrick J. Buchanan
-Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey

White House staff
-Leonard Garment
-Meeting with students from Kent State
-Glenn A. Olds

Supreme Court appointees
-Possible reaction
-Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Public support

Polls
-Harris poll
-Washington Post
-Approval ratings of the President
-Opinion Research Company [ORC]
-Charles W. Colson
-Harris poll
-Distribution
-George H. Gallup poll
-Distribution
-White House investigation
-Kennedy

The President's schedule
-Presentation of diplomatic credentials
-Unknown ambassador

The President and Haldeman left at 11:40 am.

Conversation No. 281-27

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  12:36 pm - 12:38 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

The President's schedule
-White House dinner for Nobusuke Kishi
-Members of Japanese Delegation
-Henry A. Kissinger
-National Security Council  [NSC]
-American interpreter
-George McMahon
-White House dinner arrangements
-Entertainment
-Josip Broz Tito
-White House dinner arrangements
-Kishi dinner arrangements
-Recording by White House Communications Agency [WHCA]

Butterfield left at 12:38 pm

Conversation No. 281-28

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:38 pm and 12:39 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator and asked for Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 12-37]

Conversation No. 281-29

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  12:39 pm - 12:40 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 12-38]

Conversation No. 281-30

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:40 pm and 1:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person.

Richard A. Moore

Deadline for completion of speech announcing Supreme Court appointees

Conversation No. 281-31

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:40 pm and 1:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Delivery of speech
-Rose Mary Woods

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm.

Conversation No. 281-32

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:40 pm and 1:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm.

Conversation No. 281-33

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 12:40 pm and 1:17 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

The President's schedule
-Richard A. Moore

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm.

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.

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
-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.

Conversation No. 281-35

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:55 pm and 1:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Notification of lead time for the President's speech
-Jacob K. Javits

Conversation No. 281-36

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:55 pm and 1:57 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-39]

Conversation No. 281-37

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 1:55 pm and 1:58 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

The President's schedule

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods between 1:57 pm and 1:58 pm.

[Conversation No. 281-37A]

[See Conversation No. 12-40]

[End of telephone conversation]

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Sanchez left at 1:58 pm.

Conversation No. 281-38

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  1:58 pm - 2:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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Supreme Court nominations
-Herschel H. Friday
-Civil rights record
-American Bar Association [ABA]

Speech revisions

Justices' responsiveness to the President
-Judicial philosophy
-Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
-Hugo L. Black
-John M. Harlan
-Walter Lippmann quote
-Word changes
-William H. Rehnquist
-Robert H. Jackson
-Credentials
-Wording

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 1:58 pm and 2:25 pm.

[Conversation No. 281-38A]

Notification of the President's selections
-Burger
-John N. Mitchell

[End of telephone conversation]

Speech revisions
-Instructions for Woods

Woods left at 2:25 pm.

Conversation No. 281-39

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:25 pm and 2:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm.

Conversation No. 281-40

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:25 pm and 2:30 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Notifications of the President's selections
-John N. Mitchell
-Lawrence E. Walsh
-Warren E. Burger
-Walsh
-Leaks
-Mitchell
-Richard G. Kleindienst
-Richard A. Moore
-Leonard Garment
-John D. Ehrlichman

Statistics for the President's speech
-Presidential appointments

Conversation No. 281-41

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  2:30 pm - 2:33 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

Item for the President

Butterfield left at 2:33 pm.

Conversation No. 281-42

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:33 pm and 3:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:53 pm.

Conversation No. 281-43

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:33 pm and 3:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Rose Mary Woods

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:53 pm.

Conversation No. 281-44

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 2:33 pm and 3:53 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-41]

Conversation No. 281-45

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  3:53 pm - 3:54 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Richard A. Moore.

[See Conversation No. 12-42]

Conversation No. 281-46

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 3:54 pm and 3:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:55 pm.

Conversation No. 281-47

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  3:55 pm - 4:25 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Richard A. Moore.

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 3:55 pm and 3:58 pm.

[Conversation No. 281-47A]

[See Conversation No. 12-43]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's speech for October 21, 1971

The President talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 3:55 pm and 3:58 pm.

[Conversation No. 281-47B]

[See Conversation No. 12-44]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's speech

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods between 3:58 pm and 3:59 pm.

[Conversation No. 281-47C]

[See Conversation No. 12-45]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's speech on Supreme Court appointees
-Timing
-Notifications
-John N. Mitchell
-Warren E. Burger
-Lawrence E. Walsh

Rose Mary Woods entered at 4:00 pm.

The President rehearsed a speech at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:25 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 wording
-Revisions
-Content
-Burger
-Harry A. Blackmun
-Walter Lippmann
-Washington Post
-The President's philosophy
-Judicial conservatism
-Text change
-Wording
-Lippmann quote
-Typing of speech
-Woods
-Marjorie P. Acker
-Schedule

Woods left at an unknown time before 4:25 pm.

-Speech wording
-Lippmann quote
-The President's suggested legislation

Moore left at 4:25 pm.

Conversation No. 281-71

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 4:25 pm and 5:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods and Marjorie P. Acker.

The President's speech on Supreme Court appointments
-Revision of text
-Walter Lippmann
-Woods
-Typing instructions
-Pagination

Acker left at 4:35 pm.

-Acker
-Richard A. Moore

Rose Mary Woods talked with White House operator at an unknown time between 4:35 pm and 5:05 pm.

[Conversation No. 281-71A]

[See Conversation No. 12-46]

Rose Mary Woods talked with Marjorie P. Acker at an unknown time between 4:35 pm and 5:05 pm.

[Conversation No. 281-71B]

[See Conversation No. 12-47]

[End of telephone conversation]

The President's speech on Supreme Court appointees
-Pagination
-Typing instructions

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time between 4:35 pm and 5:05 pm.

[Conversation No. 281-71C]

The President's speech on Supreme Court appointments
-Chief Justice John Marshall
-Virginia

[End of telephone conversation]

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman between 5:00 pm and 5:01 pm.

[Conversation No. 281-71D]

[See Conversation No. 12-48]

[End of telephone conversation]

[Pause]

The President's speech on Supreme Court nominations
-Preparation
-Revisions
-Acker

Woods left at 5:05 pm.

Conversation No. 281-48

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  5:06 pm - 5:15 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Ronald L. Ziegler.

Ziegler's schedule
-John N. Mitchell
-Richard A. Moore
-Supreme Court nominations
-Selections
-Ziegler’s comments to the press
-Mitchell
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

The President's instructions for media briefing
-Supreme Court nominations
-Decision
-Timing
-Powell
-Mitchell
-Details of decision-making
-American Bar Association [ABA]
-Mitchell
-Timing

An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 5:06 pm.

Delivery of item

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:15 pm.

Ziegler's forthcoming media briefing
-Mitchell
-ABA
-Presidential involvement
-Leaks
-Possibility of a woman appointee
-The President's instructions
-Qualifications
-Federal Court vacancies
-Mitchell
-Shirley M. Hufstedler
-Conversations in reaching decision on appointees
-Qualifications
-Political considerations

Ziegler left at 5:15 pm.

Conversation No. 281-49

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:15 pm and 5:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Assignment
-Rose Mary Woods

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:42 pm.

Conversation No. 281-50

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  5:42 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-49]

Conversation No. 281-51

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  5:42 pm - 5:43 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 12-50]

Conversation No. 281-52

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 5:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

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

Conversation No. 281-53

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 5:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

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

Dates of vacancy on Supreme Court

Conversation No. 281-54

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:43 pm and 5:50 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

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

Conversation No. 281-55

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:50 pm and 5:55 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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The President's Supreme Court appointments
-William H. Rehnquist
-Qualifications
-Hobart D. Lewis’ opinion
-Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
-Ages
-Rehnquist
-Potter Stewart
-Byron R. ("Whizzer") White
-Rehnquist
-Rank in law school class
-Mildred L. Lillie
-Herschel H. Friday
-Powell and Rehnquist

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman between 5:52 pm and 5:53 pm.

[Conversation No. 281-55A]

[See Conversation No. 12-51]

[End of telephone conversation]

Speech
-Changes
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Woods' preparation

Presidential speech writers
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Patrick J. Buchanan

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The President's schedule
-Old Executive Office Building office
-John N. Mitchell
-Telephone calls
-Warren E. Burger
-Lawrence E. Walsh

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Woods left at 5:55 pm.

Conversation No. 281-56

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:55 pm and 6:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

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

Conversation No. 281-57

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 5:55 pm and 6:08 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-52]

Conversation No. 281-58

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  6:08 pm - 6:24 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Charles W. Colson.

[See Conversation No. 12-53]

Conversation No. 281-59

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:24 pm and 6:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

[Unintelligible]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 6:36 pm.

The President rehearsed a speech at an unknown time between 6:24 pm and 6:36 pm.

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

Conversation No. 281-60

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:24 pm and 6:36 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 12-54]

Conversation No. 281-61

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  6:36 pm - 6:37 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 12-55]

Conversation No. 281-62

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:37 pm and 6:44 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

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

Conversation No. 281-63

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  6:44 pm - 6:45 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 12-56]

Conversation No. 281-64

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:45 pm and 7:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

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

Conversation No. 281-65

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:45 pm and 7:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person [H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman ?].

Lights for speech

Conversation No. 281-66

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 6:45 pm and 7:05 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

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

Conversation No. 281-67

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:05 pm and 7:13 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with Manolo Sanchez.

Schedule of evening events
-Alexander P. Butterfield's office
-Make-up

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Sanchez left at an unknown time before 7:13 pm.

Conversation No. 281-68

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:05 pm and 7:13 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President rehearsed a speech.

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

Conversation No. 281-69

Date:  October 21, 1971
Time:  Unknown between 7:05 pm and 7:13 pm
Location:  Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

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The President and the unknown person left at an unknown time before 7:13 pm.