Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 18 › Conversation 018-021
Nixon phone call with Woods on Nora L. Moore and Leslie E. Brown
Sunday, January 9, 1972 · 1:25 PM–1:28 PM ET · White House Telephone · 2 min
AI Summary
President Nixon consults with Rose Mary Woods to pivot from sending a letter to Maj. Gen. Leslie E. Brown’s mother, Nora L. Moore, to instead initiating a direct telephone call. The President, operating from the Executive Office Building, instructs Woods to enlist White House operators to locate the mother, potentially in Los Angeles, to facilitate a personal conversation. This action reflects a preference for direct presidential outreach over written correspondence.
- Nora L. Moore
- Leslie E. Brown
- Presidential communication
- White House operations
- Executive Office Building
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NARA Description
On January 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 1:25 pm to 1:28 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-021 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 18-21
Date: January 9, 1972
Time: 1:25 pm - 1:28 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.
[See Conversation No. 312-9]
Letter to Maj. Gen. Leslie E. Brown's mother [Nora L. Moore]
-Phone call
-White House operators
-Address
-The President's location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 12/21/2017.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[018-021-w001]
[Duration: 1m 23s]
Julie Nixon Eisenhower and [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward F. Cox
-Presence
Thelma C. (“Pat”) (Ryan) Nixon
-Clothing
-Weather
Time changes
******************************************************************************Also recorded on January 9, 1972
- 018-020 1:18 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:18 pm and 1:25 pm.
- 312-008 1:18 PM · 41 sec — President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:18 pm and 1:25 pm.
- 312-009 1:25 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:25 pm to 1:28 pm.
- 312-010 1:28 PM · 26 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:28 pm and 1:35 pm.
- 018-022 1:35 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 1:35 pm.
- 312-011 1:35 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 1:35 pm.
- 312-012 1:35 PM · 51 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:35 pm and 2:56 pm.
- 312-013 1:35 PM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:35 pm and 2:56 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 018-021, January 9, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/018-021 (accessed September 28, 2026).