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Conversation 719-005

TapeTape 719StartThursday, May 4, 1972 at 9:59 AMEndThursday, May 4, 1972 at 9:59 AMTape start time01:17:41Tape end time01:18:10ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President)Recording deviceOval Office
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On May 4, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at 9:59 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 719-005 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 719-5

Date: May 4, 1972
Time: 9:59 am
Location: Oval Office

The President rehearsed a portion of his "Eulogy Delivered at Funeral Services for J. Edgar
Hoover".

[A transcript of the final eulogy appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon,
1972, pp. 574-575]
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America's pride has always been its people, a people of good men left by the millions, of great men left by the remarkable ones, and once in a long while, of giants, who stand ahead in the shoulders of their country, setting a high and noble standard for us all.
The end of your world is on those men.
Your small mind will go to the point that
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