Conversation: 339-005
Prev: 339-004 Next: 339-006Start Date: Tuesday, May 16, 1972 12:10 AM
End Date: Tuesday, May 16, 1972 1:16 AM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Yates, Nellie L.; Felt, W. MarkRecording Device: Old Executive Office Building
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:05:20
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:35:28
NARA Description:
On May 15, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Nellie L. Yates, and W. Mark Felt met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:10 pm and 9:16 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 339-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 339-5
Date: May 15, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:10 and 9:16 pm
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec-01)
Conv. No. 339-4 (cont.)
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Nellie L. Yates.
George C. Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Compared with Robert F. Kennedy assassination
-Secret Service agent's condition
-Assailant
-The President’s view
-Assassination attempt
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Third party candidacy
-Possible recovery
W. Mark Felt talked with the President between 8:15 and 8:18 pm.
[Conversation No. 339-5A]
[See Conversation No. 24-116]
[End of telephone conversation]
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 8m 10s ]
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President's travels
-Moscow’s [Soviet] Summit
-Iran
-Previous travels
-Warsaw
Wallace
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Dec-01)
Conv. No. 339-5 (cont.)
-Future victories
-Maryland
Robert F. Kennedy
John B. Connally
-Wounding in John F. Kennedy assassination
Wallace
-Assassination attempt
-Responsibility
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 11m 33s ]
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Yates left at an unknown time before 9:16 pm.