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  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • H. R. Haldeman
  • Stephen B. Bull
April 19, 1971
Conversation No. 482-21

Date: April 19, 1971
Time: 3:52 pm - 4:05 pm
Location: Oval Office

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

Haldeman's conversation with William P. Rogers regarding Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey,
Jr.
-William H. Sullivan
-McCloskey's charges
-Validity
-Sullivan meeting with McCloskey
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy hearings, April 22, 1971
-Rogers
-Sullivan
-G. McMurtrie Godley
-Air Force
-Rogers's upcoming press conference
-Godley
-Henry A. Byroade and William J. Porter
-Shift
-Byroade
-Personal life
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-Qualifications
-Relations with Rogers
-Porter
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Personal life

President's conversation with George P. Shultz
-Donald E. McLarnan
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Discipline in bureaucracy
-Removals from office
-White House
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB]
-Agencies
-Disloyalty
-McLarnan
-Frederic V. Malek
-Disloyalty

International Telephone and Telegram [ITT] anti-trust case
-Ehrlichman
-Richard G. Kleindienst, John N. Mitchell
-Richard W. McLaren
-McLaren
-Resignation
-Mitchell
-Loyalty

United Nations [UN] staff
-Charles W. Yost
-Removal
-George H.W. Bush
-Appointees
-Study
-Timing
-Possible removals
-Supporters of Yost
-Bush
-Bush
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Privacy]
[Duration: 6s ]


END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3 Conv. No. 482-21 (cont.)

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-State Department
-Removal of Yost's associates
-Rogers
-Byroade
-Yost
-Bush
-Removals
-Yost's State Department associates

McLaren
-Resignation
-Mitchell
-Kleindienst
-Mitchell
-Ehrlichman
-Kleindienst
-President's role
-Staff's role

Haldeman's conversation with Daniel P. (“Patrick”) Moynihan
-People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Harvard University

[Transcript #1: A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was prepared under
court order from December 1978 through March 1979 for Special Access 8, Ronald V. Dellums,
et al. v. James M. Powell, et al., No. 71-2271. The National Archives and Records
Administration produced this transcript. The National Archives does not guarantee its accuracy.]

[End of transcript]
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-J. Edgar Hoover
Stephen B. Bull entered at unknown time after 3:52 pm.

President's schedule
-John L. McClellan

Bull left at an unknown time before 4:05 pm.
Conv. No. 482-21 (cont.)
Haldeman's conversation with Moynihan
-Moynihan's optimism
-Harvard
-Speeches
-Ideas
-Support for President
-Democrat support for President
-John B. Connally


Cabinet resignations
-Rogers
-John A. Volpe
-Rogers
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Timing
-1972 election

President's conversation with Shultz
-Removal of McLarnan
-Timing
-Publicity
-Demotion

Discipline of bureaucracy
-Office of Management and Budget [OMB] and Cabinet
-Connally's view
-Administrations position
-Walter J. Hickel
-Unknown man
-Robert H. Finch
-Yost
-[Forename unknown] Long
-Alain C. Enthoven
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-Dr. Lee A. DuBridge
-Cabinet
-Volpe
-DuBridge
-McLaren
-Mitchell
-Removal
Conv. No. 482-21 (cont.)
Haldeman left at 4:05 pm.
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