On May 24, 1973, White House operator, President Richard M. Nixon, and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 5:05 pm to 5:08 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 039-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 39-9
Date: May 24, 1973
Time: 5:05 pm - 5:08 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The White House operator talked with the President.
Incoming telephone call
The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
[See also Conversation No. 440-47]
Reception for former prisoners of war [POWs]
-Response
-President’s speech
-Ovations
-Reception lines
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Tricia Nixon Cox, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-President’s speech
-Betty Beale, Fay C. Wells, unnamed reporter
-Ovations
-Return of POWs
-President’s foreign policy
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-9 (cont’d)
-People’s Republic of China [PRC], Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics [USSR] initiatives
-Secret negotiations
-PRC
-US-USSR agreement
-POW return
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