Secret White House Tapes

719–15

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719–15
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Alexander P. Butterfield
  • Rose Mary Woods
  • Manolo Sanchez
May 4, 1972
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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-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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[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.
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