Dictation Belt XXB contains five sound recordings. Item XXB.1 is a brief telephone exchange between Personal Secretary Evelyn Lincoln and an unidentified woman who answers the telephone at the office of Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner. Lincoln announces someone’s arrival. [White House Operator?] places the call at Lincoln’s request. Part of the exchange is unintelligible because of an echo. Machine noise precedes and follows the exchange. Item XXB.2 is a fragment of badly garbled and unintelligible chatter. This is not a telephone conversation, but rather chatter recorded when the telephone was off the hook. Item XXB.3 is a brief telephone exchange between a White House Operator and an unidentified woman. The operator announces a call from Stanley Tretick to Priscilla “Fiddle” Wear. Machine noise follows the conversation. Item XXB.4 is a telephone conversation between President John F. Kennedy and Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell L. Gilpatric. They discuss arrangements for a meeting of governors and civil defense arrangements for communities in the southeast United States. The recording begins in mid-conversation. Item XXB.5 is a conversation between President John F. Kennedy and an unidentified man. They discuss the reaction of the press to an unidentified crisis. President Kennedy refers to remarks by G. Mennen Williams. Personal Secretary Evelyn Lincoln also speaks. This is not a telephone conversation, but rather a conversation recorded when the telephone was left off the hook. The recording is indistinct and often unintelligible.

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