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Conversation 034-064

TapeTape 34StartWednesday, December 13, 1972 at 4:15 PMEndWednesday, December 13, 1972 at 4:47 PMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  White House operatorRecording deviceWhite House Telephone
AudioNARA Description

On December 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:15 pm and 4:47 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 034-064 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 34-64

Date: December 13, 1972
Time: Unknown between 4:15 pm and 4:47 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 822-11A]

       Milton Friedman
            -Identification
                  -Dr. Friedman
                         -Location
                               -Mayo Clinic
                               -Heyward, California
                                     -Harvey Milton
                  -George P. Shultz
                  -Health
                         -Heart surgery
                  -Location
                         -Telephone number
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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Hello.
Mr. President, may I ask you something?
Yeah.
This Dr. Friedman has left...
The Mayo Clinic?
...as of July 1972, and they say he's now in Hayward, California.
And this one that we have is... Oh, what did they give the first name?
Harvey Milton Friedman, and he's ears, nose, and throat.
Would that be the one and the same?
Well, actually, who this is, is the... You might ask...
Let me see.
Maybe I've got a card on it that may tell us more about it.
But George Shultz gave me that information.
Maybe he had it wrong.
This is Milton Friedman.
He has to have early heart surgery at the Mayo Clinic.
He can be reached late afternoon Thursday at 507-282-2581.
Well, maybe it's not the doctor then.
Maybe it's that professor.
Oh, it is a professor.
Okay.
We had that number.
Yeah.
It's a professor I'm trying to talk to, but he's called a doctor.
I see.
That's what the whole.
Okay.
He's not a doctor.
He's a professor.
Right.
Right.
Okay.
Great.
And you can get him in.
Okay.
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