Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 024-093
Date: Monday, May 15, 1972 at 5:52 PM
Participants: White House operator; Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob"); Connally, John B.; Rossides, Eugene T.; Nixon, Richard M. (President)
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/024-093

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[0:00] Mr. Rossetti.
[0:01] Just a minute.
[0:05] Gene.
[0:06] There you are.
[0:07] Gene.
[0:07] Yes, sir.
[0:09] I'm still in the president's office, and I've just talked to Ted Kennedy, and I have offered him protection, and I want you or Chief Riley to get a hold of him.
[0:15] He's at home.
[0:16] Right.
[0:17] And you all get the agents on him tonight.
[0:19] Will do.
[0:20] What about Chisholm?
[0:21] She's in Akron, Ohio.
[0:22] The whole train, the man is calling, and now he's back.
[0:26] You call her and tell her she's got it.
[0:28] Fine.
[0:29] But you call her.
[0:30] We don't need to call her.
[0:30] Right.
[0:31] I'll call her.
[0:32] Now, on the others, on...
[0:33] The others would be Mills...
[0:35] Uh, then there's Congresswoman Mink is still technically, uh... Well...
[0:39] He's McCarthy.
[0:40] Oh, not McCarthy.
[0:42] But you talk, you talk to, uh, Riley, and you all decide we might put two or three people with him, just a minimum, just if they're traveling or something.
[0:50] Mark Mills.
[0:50] Yeah.
[0:51] And, uh, Mink.
[0:54] And Yorty and, uh, Muskie.
[0:56] Muskie's still got his, hasn't he?
[0:58] Yes, he still has his.
[0:58] And Jackson.
[1:00] So on.
[1:01] Jackson still has his.
[1:02] Yes.
[1:03] But a reduced number.
[1:06] Yeah, yeah.
[1:07] Give the others a very reduced number, too, but go on and do it.
[1:11] My turn.
[1:12] And you take care of Chisholm.
[1:14] We're going to announce Kennedy from over here, but you or Riley get a hold of him immediately at his home and tell him the agents are on their way and let's get it.
[1:21] Now, he wants to take them on a temporary basis.
[1:23] You want to take them on a temporary basis?
[1:24] Subject to change, and I said that's fine.
[1:28] And then I'll call Mrs. Chisholm.
[1:29] You call Mrs. Chisholm and tell her that the president has ordered that notwithstanding she doesn't qualify under the criteria, as we understand it, that the president has ordered that she be given protection.
[1:40] Right.
[1:41] Do we put out any statements by you?
[1:43] Yeah, you can put out a statement on her.
[1:46] You can put out the statement from the Treasury over there.
[1:48] They'll put out the statement from the White House.
[1:51] The statement from Kennedy will be put out over here, but we'll put out the statement over there.
[1:55] We're low-key, but the President has directed me, as Secretary of the Treasury, to offer protection to Ms. Chisholm.
[2:01] Thirdly, we've traced the gun of a .38 Caliber V.
[2:08] Any further word on his condition?
[2:22] No further word on the condition.
[2:25] Secretary, we just have no further word.
[2:27] Now, you know, maybe Humphrey is either at the hospital or on his way to the hospital to see Governor Wallace.
[2:33] Yeah.
[2:33] McGovern is going to hold a press conference, and then he will go from Detroit to the hospital.
[2:38] Yeah.
[2:40] Okay.
[2:41] I want to add that just in case any... Well, God Almighty.
[2:45] All right.
[2:46] But those two are... Humphrey's probably there, and McGovern's on his way.
[2:49] Okay.
[2:51] All right.
[2:52] Bye.