Secret White House Tapes

39–5

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39–5
  • White House operator
  • President Richard M. Nixon
  • Leslie C. Arends
May 24, 1973
Conversation No. 39-5

Date: May 24, 1973
Time: 1:39 pm - 1:40 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Incoming telephone call

The President talked with Leslie C. Arends.

[See also Conversation No. 440-39]

Republican Party leadership meeting, May 23

-Reaction

-Frequency


Watergate

-Republican Congressmen’s morale

-White House response

-White Paper [Statements about Watergate, May 22, 1973]
-National security
-Effect on United States foreign policy
-Reception for former prisoners of war [POWs]
-Leakers
-Celebration
-Negative effects
-Importance of secrecy
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
[USSR]
-Vietnam
-POWs

Arends’ possible speeches

President’s previous comments
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Conversation No. 39-5 (cont’d)

-National defense

-Appeal
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