Conversation: 919-024
Prev: 919-023 Next: 919-025Start Date: 16-May-1973 11:49 AM
End Date: 16-May-1973 12:34 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 16, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:49 am and 12:34 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 919-024 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 919-24
Date: May 16, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:49 am and 12:34 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
Weather
G. Bradford Cook
-Robert L. Vesco
-Resignation
-$48,000 for Hubert H. Humphrey
-John Loeb
-Indictment
David Marx
-Telephone call to Rose Mary Woods
-Uncle to Daniel Ellsberg’s wife [Patricia Marx]
-J. Edgar Hoover’s inaction
-Impact on White House investigation
-Affinity for Marx family
-Telephone call to Woods
-Television [TV]
-Meeting with Walter L. Cronkite, Jr.
President’s possible resignation
-Reason
-Partisanship
Watergate
-Effect on nation
Woods’s conversation with Marx
-Santa Ana Register
-George H. W. Bush and Republican National Committee [RNC]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 919-24 (cont’d)
Watergate
-Calls for President’s resignation
-Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony J. Russo, Jr.
-National opinion
-Theft of national security information
-Appointment
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Service on Scranton Committee
-Patrick J. Buchanan [?]
-Russo’s work in Chicago
-Angela Y. Davis
-Chicago Seven
-Impeachment
-Congressional action
-Impeachment
Henry A. Kissinger
-Letter for President to sign
-Leonid I. Brezhnev and Nicolai Ceausescu
Presidency
-Difficulty
-State Dinner, May 15
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule
-Indiana
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule
-Popular reception
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Watergate
-Possible letters to editors
-President’s accomplishments
-McCarthyism
-Santa Ana Register story regarding the President’s San Clemente property
-Trust
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Conversation No. 919-24 (cont’d)
-Nixon Foundation
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s comment
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[Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift]
President’s schedule
-Tiredness
-State Dinner
-Preoccupations
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Watergate
-President’s response
-Peter J. Brennan’s telephone call to Woods
-White House response
-Helen A. Thomas
-President’s activities
-Woods’s schedule
-Social event at Iranian ambassador’s residence
-Amir-Alsan Afshar’s demeanor [?]
-Frank N. Ikard [?]
-Jean Ikard
-Edward W. Brooke
-Robert Gray
-Woods’s demeanor
-Support for President
-Haircut
-Style
-Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr.
Weather
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Tape Subject Log
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Conversation No. 919-24 (cont’d)
Cook
President’s supporters
Woods left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.