Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 034-064
Date: Wednesday, December 13, 1972 at 4:15 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/034-064
National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/647841732 (NAID 647841732)

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[0:00] Hello.
[0:01] Mr. President, may I ask you something?
[0:03] Yeah.
[0:03] This Dr. Friedman has left...
[0:07] The Mayo Clinic?
[0:08] ...as of July 1972, and they say he's now in Hayward, California.
[0:13] And this one that we have is... Oh, what did they give the first name?
[0:17] Harvey Milton Friedman, and he's ears, nose, and throat.
[0:21] Would that be the one and the same?
[0:25] Well, actually, who this is, is the... You might ask...
[0:30] Let me see.
[0:31] Maybe I've got a card on it that may tell us more about it.
[0:34] But George Shultz gave me that information.
[0:36] Maybe he had it wrong.
[0:38] This is Milton Friedman.
[0:40] He has to have early heart surgery at the Mayo Clinic.
[0:43] He can be reached late afternoon Thursday at 507-282-2581.
[0:48] Well, maybe it's not the doctor then.
[0:50] Maybe it's that professor.
[0:51] Oh, it is a professor.
[0:52] Okay.
[0:53] We had that number.
[0:54] Yeah.
[0:54] It's a professor I'm trying to talk to, but he's called a doctor.
[0:57] I see.
[0:58] That's what the whole.
[0:59] Okay.
[0:59] He's not a doctor.
[1:00] He's a professor.
[1:01] Right.
[1:02] Right.
[1:02] Okay.
[1:02] Great.
[1:02] And you can get him in.
[1:04] Okay.