Conversation: 948-004
Prev: 948-003 Next: 948-005Start Date: 11-Jul-1973 11:32 AM
End Date: 11-Jul-1973 12:08 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On July 11, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:32 am to 12:08 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 948-004 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 948-4
Date: July 11, 1973
Time: 11:32 pm - 12:08 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rose Mary Woods. This recording began while the conversation was in
progress.
Watergate
-Unnamed person [Howard H. Baker, Jr. ?]
-Marjorie P. Acker [?]
-Ervin Committee hearings
-John N. Mitchell’s testimony
-Compared with John W. Dean, III, L[ouis] Patrick Gray [?]
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. November-2012)
Conversation No. 948-4 (cont’d)
-White House staff
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Priorities
-Role as head of campaign
-President’s re-election
-Possible telephone calls
-Woods
-Supporters
-William E. Brock, III
-Campaign contributions
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Mitchell’s testimony
-President’s knowledge, role
-President’s foreign policy activities
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR],
Vietnam War
-Baker
-Decision-making
-Woods’s assessment
-Baker
-Woods’s view
-Louis [Last name unknown]
-President’s assessment
-Brock
-Louis [Last name unknown]
-Everett M. Dirksen
-Weakness
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] interview
-Events in Texas
-[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Compared with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-President’s assessment
-Woods’s assessment
-Ervin Committee hearings
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. November-2012)
Conversation No. 948-4 (cont’d)
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-Loyalty
-Dean, Jeb Stuart Magruder
-Dean
-Woods’s assessment
-Woods’s forthcoming telephone call to Mitchell
-Location
-Trader Vic’s restaurant
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell
-President’s knowledge
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
-Concise responses
-President’s knowledge
-Hypothetical actions
-Cover-up
-Compared to Chappaquiddick scandal
-Young Republicans
-Dean
-Mail from Ohio
-Networks’ coverage
-Compared to Mitchell
-National Broadcasting Company [NBC]
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC]
-Woods’s attendance at party
-Attire
-Response
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
-Mitchell’s testimony
-Networks’ coverage
-New York Times
-Woods’s possible telephone call to James C. Hagerty
-Mitchell compared to Dean
-Dean’s testimony
-Immunity
-Perjury
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. November-2012)
Conversation No. 948-4 (cont’d)
-William L. Safire’s conversation with Ronald L. Ziegler
-New York Times
-Safire’s column
-Dean
-Guest column for Art Hoppe
Safire
-Salary
-President’s assessment
Watergate
-Ervin Committee Hearings
-Mitchell’s testimony
-White House response
-President’s possible press conference
-Patrick J. Buchanan’s view
-Compared to others’ advice
-Dean
-Wisdom of response
-Dean
-Woods’s reaction
-Ervin Committee testimony regarding Woods
-Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
-Dean’s refusal to name
-Report
-Camp David
-Allegations regarding President
-Immunity
-Compared to Magruder
-Motives
-Fear of prison
-Magruder
-Family
-Views of Californians
-Dean
-Background
-White House response
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. November-2012)
Conversation No. 948-4 (cont’d)
Press relations
-Helen A. Thomas
-Vera Glaser
-Article regarding Woods
-Headline
-Republicans
-Party affiliation
-Coverage of administration
-Negativity
-White House anti-Semitism
-Safire, Leonard Garment, Murray M. Chotiner
-Glaser
-Kandy Stroud
-Thomas
-Woods’s assessment
-Behavior at President’s speech in Kansas City, July 1973
-Attire
-Slacks on Air Force One
-Behavior
Jean Rogers’s telephone call to Woods
-Unknown man’s health
-Woods’s forthcoming call to Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Unknown man
-Catholic faith
-Unnamed priest’s visit
-Last rites
-Cross
-Peace with dying
-Woods’s, President’s assessment
Watergate
-Woods’s morale
-Handling of telephone calls, criticism
-Supporters
-Robert Gray’s views
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Tape Subject Log
(rev. November-2012)
Conversation No. 948-4 (cont’d)
-[First name unknown] McCormick
Unknown man
-Conversation with Woods, July 10, 1973
-Attire
-Glasses, contact lenses
-Return to position [?]
Watergate
-Baker
-Forthcoming telephone calls from Marjorie P. Acker, others
-Messages of condemnation
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Woods left at 12:08 pm.