Conversation 658-002

TapeTape 658StartThursday, January 27, 1972 at 8:45 AMEndThursday, January 27, 1972 at 8:50 AMTape start time00:01:42Tape end time00:19:20ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Butterfield, Alexander P.Recording deviceOval Office

President Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met to coordinate administrative details regarding upcoming honors and official representation. They reviewed citations for the Presidential Medal of Freedom to be awarded to Raymond K. Price, Jr. and John K. Andrews, Jr. Additionally, they discussed the selection of Deputy Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst to serve as the President’s representative at the funeral of former Senator Carl T. Hayden.

Presidential Medal of FreedomCarl T. HaydenRichard G. KleindienstWhite House AdministrationCeremonial Planning

On January 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:45 am and 8:50 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 658-002 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 658-2

Date: January 27, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:45 am and 8:50 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.

     Schedule
          -Medal of Freedom citations
              -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
              -John K. Andrews, Jr.

     Funeral of Carl T. Hayden
          -Richard G. Kleindienst
                -Representation of the President

Butterfield left at 8:50 am.

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I give you to let you read the citations before they are read.
The end of the poem is quite simple.
And Dick Lyons is going to call it a funeral.
And we'd like him to be your personal representative, because I don't think anyone wants to hear your story.
Sure.
Oh, of course.
Henry obviously did a superb job, as we heard he had done.