Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 5 › Conversation 005-094

Nixon phone call with Woods on Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers

Wednesday, June 16, 1971 · 5:10 PM–5:11 PM ET · White House Telephone · 23 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose MaryConversation005-094 on Tape 5 (tape position 02:51:17–02:51:42)StartWednesday, June 16, 1971 at 5:10 PMEndWednesday, June 16, 1971 at 5:11 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 005-094 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 644217983 ↗

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NARA Description

On June 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 5:10 pm to 5:11 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 005-094 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 5-94

Date: June 16, 1971
Time: 5:10 pm - 5:11 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 523-5B]

     Copy of book Witness
         -Alger Hiss hearings

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Yeah.
Hello.
Do you have a copy of Witness in there, the book?
Or do you have a copy of those hearings?
You remember that?
Somebody sent me a copy of those hearings, you know.
Let me see where they were put.
I'm afraid they've been sent out.
Well, they may be.
Well, all right.
You probably don't have it.
Okay.

Also recorded on June 16, 1971

  • 523-002 2:58 PM · 42 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, Rose Mary Woods, Henry A. Kissinger, Stephen B. Bull, Swaran Singh, Lakshmi Kant Jha, Kenneth B. Keating, Joseph J. Sisco, White House photographer, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:58 pm to 3:41 pm.
  • 523-003 3:41 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:41 pm and 3:43 pm.
  • 523-004 3:41 PM · 47 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Henry A. Kissinger, Charles Bluhdorn, John D. Ehrlichman, and Peter G. Peterson met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:41 pm and 4:30 pm.
  • 523-008 4:29 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:29 pm to 4:30 pm.
  • 523-005 4:30 PM · 47 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, John M. O'Neill, Melvin Stephens, Charles W. Colson, Stephen B. Bull, Manolo Sanchez, Henry A. Kissinger, White House operator, unknown person(s), and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:30 pm to 5:15 pm.
  • 523-006 5:16 PM · 46 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), Ronald L. Ziegler, Henry A. Kissinger, Lawrence M. Higby, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:16 pm to 6:05 pm.
  • 523-007 6:05 PM · 2 min — Unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 6:05 pm on June 16, 1971 and 7:55 am on June 17, 1971.
  • 005-095 7:46 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 7:46 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 005-094, June 16, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 644217983). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/005-094 (accessed November 4, 2026).