8–115

Conversation No. 8-115

Date: September 13, 1971
Time: 7:43 pm - 7:47 pm
Location: White House Telephone

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

Attica prisoner uprising
-Media coverage
-John D. Ehrlichman’s report
-National Broadcasting Corporation [NBC]
-Prisoners support
-Thomas Grey (“Tom”) Wicker
-Nelson A. Rockefeller credit
-William Kunstler
-Wicker
-Rockefeller
-Racial aspect
-Blacks
-Guards
-Puerto Ricans


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Ehrlichman joined the conversation at an unknown time after 7:43 pm

Federal prisons
-Preventive actions
-Attorney General
-Alert
-Attica effect
-Possible deterrent
-Rockefeller’s conversation with Ehrlichman
-Bobby Seale and Black Panthers
-Comment
-Attorney General

Rockefeller
-Attica
-Response
-Negotiations
-Conservatism
-Compared to W. Ronald Reagan
-Problems
-John V. Lindsay
-Attica
-Welfare