Conversation: 039-025
Prev: 039-024 Next: 039-026Start Date: Tuesday, May 29, 1973 2:40 AM
End Date: Tuesday, May 29, 1973 2:44 AM
Participants:
White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Keyes, Paul W.Recording Device: White House Telephone
NARA Description:
On May 28, 1973, White House operator, President Richard M. Nixon, and Paul W. Keyes talked on the telephone from 10:40 pm to 10:44 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 039-025 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 39-25
Date: May 28, 1973
Time: 10:40 pm - 10:44 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The White House operator talked with the President.
Incoming telephone call
The President talked with Paul W. Keyes.
President’s trip to Florida
Former prisoners of war [POWs] dinner
-Keyes’s efforts
-Telephone calls from Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and Ronald L. Ziegler
-Television [TV] coverage
-Networks
-American Broadcasting Companies [ABC]
-Jack Webb’s telephone call to Keyes
-POWs’ reaction
-Newspaper coverage
-Statements by John Wayne, James (“Jimmy”) Stewart, and Ricardo Montalban
-Keyes’s role
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. February-2011)
Conversation No. 39-25 (cont’d)
-Miriam E. (Kelleher) Keyes
-POW bracelet
-Dance with POW
-Duration
-President’s activities
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) Hope
-Cue cards
Watergate
-Effect on President
-Popular opinion
POW dinner
-Wayne and Stewart
-Return flight
-Mood
-Recognition for performers
-Keyes’s conversation with Stephen B. Bull
-Certificate, cuff links, gift