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Conversation: 024-109

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Start Date: 15-May-1972 7:42 PM

End Date: 15-May-1972 7:57 PM

Participants:

White House operatorColson, Charles W.Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Nixon, Richard M. (President)Felt, W. Mark

Recording Device: White House Telephone

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:07:56

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:14:02

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024c.mp3

NARA Description:

On May 15, 1972, the White House operator, Charles W. Colson, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, President Richard M. Nixon, and W. Mark Felt talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:42 pm and 7:57 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 024-109 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 24-109

Date: May 15, 1972
Time: Unknown between 7:42 pm and 7:57 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with Charles W. Colson.

     Call from W. Mark Felt

Colson conferred with the President and H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman at an unknown time.

     Felt's call

     Questions

[End of conferral]

     Felt's call

Felt talked with Colson at an unknown time.

     Colson's location

     Attack on George C. Wallace
          -Latest report
               -Assailants
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                     -Number
                     -Release
                -Arthur H. Bremer
                     -Name
                     -Race
                     -Sex
                     -Residence
                           -Source of information
                     -Purchase of gun
                           -Place
                           -Caliber
                     -Current location
                           -Reason
                     -Interrogation
                           -Doctors
                           -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
                     -Protection

The President and Haldeman conferred at an unknown time.

     Secret Service

[End of conferral]

     Attack on Wallace
          -Investigation
               -FBI direction and control
                      -Legal basis
          -Secret Service agent
               -Surgery
               -Location
               -Condition
          -Bremer
               -Interrogation
                      -Time
                      -Questions
                           -Range

Colson conferred with the President and an unknown person at an unknown time.

     [Unintelligible]
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     Edward M. Kennedy

[End of conferral]

     Attack on Wallace
          -Reports
               -Bremer
                     -Political leanings
                           -Kennedy connection
                           -Antiwar connection
                           -Questions
          -Questioning
               -Colson’s view
          -Further reports

Colson conferred with Haldeman at an unknown time.

           -John D. Ehrlichman's Request for a call to Felt

[End of conferral]

           -Ehrlichman's Request for a call to Felt
           -Rumors
                 -Bremer's motives
                 -Political connections
                       -University of Wisconsin
                             -Anti-war connection
                       -Kennedy
           -Questioning
                 -Timing
           -Bremer
                 -Safety
                       -Compared with John F. Kennedy assassination
                 -Questioning
                       -Reports to the President

The President conferred with Haldeman at an unknown time.

           -Surgery
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[End of conferral]

           -Rumors
                -Verification
                      -Edward M. Kennedy
                            -Felt’s concern
                -Colson's sources
           -Bremer
                -Questioning
                      -Timing
                      -Colson’s view
           -Further reports