Easy NixonAbout

Conversation: 853-017

Prev:  853-016 Next: 853-018

Start Date: 8-Feb-1973 3:07 PM

End Date: 8-Feb-1973 11:59 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)Morton, Rogers C. B.

Recording Device: Oval Office

853-017.mp3

NARA Description:

On February 8, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Rogers C. B. Morton met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:07 pm and 11:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 853-017 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 853-17

Date: February 8, 1973
Time: Unknown after 3:07 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rogers C. B. Morton.

       President’s policies
                                           -47-

                 NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                    Tape Subject Log
                                      (rev. Feb.-10)
                                                              Conversation No. 853-17 (cont’d)


             -American people’s support
                   -Understanding

      Morton’s health
            -Physical exam
            -Prostate gland
                    -Johns Hopkins Hospital
                    -Palo Alto
                           -Stanford Medical Center
                    -Radiation treatment
                    -Worry
                    -Operation
                    -Radiation treatment
                           -Doctor
                                   -Authority
                                   -Stanford Medical Center

      Morton’s Palo Alto office
            -Suzanne Whitaker
            -Robert J. Hitt

      Morton’s health
            -Prostate gland
                    -Radiation treatment
                           -Scheduling
                           -Postponement
                    -Physical examination
                           -Yearly test
                           -Gen. Walter R. Tkach
                           -Doctor
                                   -Second opinion
                                          -Johns Hopkins
                    -Hoyt S. Vandenberg
                           -National Security Council [NSC]
                    -Physical examination

******************************************************************************
[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
                                                        -48-

                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                               Tape Subject Log
                                                 (rev. Feb.-10)
                                                                            Conversation No. 853-17 (cont’d)




---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 4s]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]
******************************************************************************


                           -Prognosis

         Congressional relations
               -Russell B. Long
                       -Support for President
                               -President’s reelection
                               -Fighting
               -Public attitudes
                       -Fighting
                               -Taxes

         President’s forthcoming trip
                -Morton’s best wishes
                -President’s discretion

Morton left at an unknown time after 3:07 pm.