H.R. "Bob" Haldeman∇: Hello?
Operator: Dr. [Walter] Tkach.
Haldeman: Thank you.
Walter Tkach: Bob?
Haldeman: Yes, [unclear].
Tkach: I just talked to General Vogel--
Haldeman: Yeah.
Tkach: --at the hospital, and Mrs. [Lady Bird] Johnson's already there. And he--the President--former President [Lyndon] Johnson's in transit in an ambulance to the airport, and the hospital--there are no communications in the ambulance so he can't tell me a damn thing about whether he's alive or dead.
Haldeman: For God's sake.
Tkach: He's going to call me immediately as soon as he sees him.
Haldeman: OK.
Tkach: Have you got any more than that?
Haldeman: Mrs. Johnson's at the hospital?
Tkach: Right, sir.
President Nixon can be heard in the background but his words cannot be made out clearly.
Haldeman: She--how'd she get there ahead of him?
Tkach: I don't know. She may have been in the area.
Haldeman: Yeah.
Tkach: Because he came on the fixed wing [aircraft] from Johnson City to the International [airport] and an ambulance took him to the hospital.
Haldeman: He's in the ambulance now?
Tkach: Right, sir.
Haldeman: And he'll call you as soon as he knows?
Tkach: Yes, sir.
Haldeman: OK.
Tkach: [Unclear.] OK, Bob.