Conversation: 719-015
Prev: 719-014 Next: 719-016Start Date: Thursday, May 4, 1972 4:22 PM
End Date: Thursday, May 4, 1972 4:47 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Butterfield, Alexander P.; Woods, Rose Mary; Sanchez, ManoloRecording Device: Oval Office
Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 02:27:24
Full Tape Conversation End Time: 02:46:54
NARA Description:
On May 4, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, Rose Mary Woods, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:22 pm and 12:47 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 719-015 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 719-15
Date: May 4, 1972
Time: Unknown after 12:22 pm until 12:47 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
Richard A. Moore
-Location
-Meeting with the President
Rose Mary Woods entered at 12:28 pm.
Butterfield left at an unknown time after 12:28 pm.
J. Edgar Hoover
-Funeral
-Rev. Edward L.R. Elson's attire
-Elson's actions
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 12:28 pm.
Food order
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 719-15 (cont.)
Sanchez
-Hospital bill
-Payment
-Fina Sanchez
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 12:47 pm.
Hoover funeral
-Elson
-Actions
-National televison appearance
-Meeting with the President
-President's eulogy
-Length
-Robert L. King
-Delivery
-Lou Nichols
-Health
-Age
-President's eulogy
-Permissiveness
-Criticism
-Difficulty of eulogies
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Winston S. Churchill
-Cabinet members
-Others
-Speaker of the House
-Vice President
-Hugh Scott
-Necessity
-President's favorite passages
Hoover
-Death
-Timing
-Forthcoming election issue
-Recommendations on resignation
-President's meeting with Hoover
-President's defense of at press conference
-Critics
-Jack N. Anderson
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 719-15 (cont.)
-Columns
-Woods’s view
-The President’s view
-Drew Pearson
-President's relationship
-Weaknesses
-Death
-Helen Gandy, Hoover's secretary
-President's call
-President's course of action
Garden
-Appearance
President's schedule
-Camp David
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
-Woods's schedule
-The DeLuccas (sp?)
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Meeting with the President at Camp David
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[Duration: 28s ]
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-Rebozo
-Camp David trip
-Work habits
Secretaries
-Quality of work
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. Jan-02)
Conv. No. 719-15 (cont.)
-Production
Hoover
-Eulogy
-Scheduling
-Prime time
-Television coverage
-Evening news reports
-Marjorie P. Acker's report
-Garrick Utley
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 4m 1s ]
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-Camp David visit
President's eulogy
-Woods's assessment
Woods left at 12:47 p.m.