{"conversationCode":"004-054","tapeNumber":4,"conversationNumber":54,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-004-054","startDateTime":"1971-06-07T18:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-07T18:43:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Jun-1971","startTime":"2:40 PM","endDate":"7-Jun-1971","endTime":"2:43 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On June 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 2:40 pm to 2:43 pm. 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Keyes\n                                      -Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House\n                                      -Apartment of Nancy Lammerding\n                     -June 11, 1971\n\n                             -Luncheon\n                                    -Provided by Edward R.F. Cox's godparents\n                                    -Sulgrave Club\n                             -Tour of State Department\n                                    -Diplomatic reception room\n                             -Sequoia\n                     -June 12 and 13, 1971\n                             -Presence of Helene (Colesie) Drown\n                             -Reception\n                                    -Limited to Nixon family members\n                     -June 11, 1971\n              -President’s upcoming conversation with Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon\n\n**********************************************************************","filename":["004-054.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:29:57","tapeEnd":"02:33:01","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"004-053","nextCode":"004-055","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon called Rose Mary Woods to clarify his schedule for the upcoming week, specifically regarding evening events and the arrival of guests. They confirmed his photo session and dinner at the F Street Club for that evening, and then reviewed the planned activities for visiting family and friends, including a Sequoia trip, a dinner for Paul Keyes, and various receptions and luncheons leading up to a wedding. 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No, sir, I haven't got anything. I don't know whether—"},{"start":13,"end":15,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Where is Helen? Is she around?"},{"start":15,"end":18,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Uh, I don't know. Let me check. I didn't get this morning's schedule, wait a minute."},{"start":18,"end":19,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Yeah. What I was thinking of—"},{"start":19,"end":20,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Wait, wait, here it is."},{"start":20,"end":24,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Is wait, take our, take our folks down and take a picture in the library tonight."},{"start":24,"end":26,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Yeah."},{"start":26,"end":29,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Uh, and then have dinner at the F Street Club."},{"start":29,"end":31,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Tonight at six o'clock,"},{"start":31,"end":32,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Yeah."},{"start":32,"end":33,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Library photograph,"},{"start":33,"end":35,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Yeah."},{"start":35,"end":37,"speaker":"Woods","text":"and eight o'clock dinner at the F Street Club."},{"start":37,"end":39,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Fine, yeah. Now, when do the other folks come in? They don't come in till"},{"start":39,"end":40,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Well—"},{"start":40,"end":43,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"later in the week, do they? Some come in Wednesday and Thursday and Friday?"},{"start":43,"end":44,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Well, the other—"},{"start":44,"end":45,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Helene and Jack come Thursday, don't they?"},{"start":45,"end":48,"speaker":"Woods","text":"I have a list here of Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday,"},{"start":48,"end":49,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Yeah."},{"start":49,"end":52,"speaker":"Woods","text":"and uh they have suggested,"},{"start":52,"end":54,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Yeah."},{"start":54,"end":58,"speaker":"Woods","text":"that, wait a minute, the people that will be in Wednesday, only about fifteen will be in Wednesday."},{"start":58,"end":59,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Yeah."},{"start":59,"end":64,"speaker":"Woods","text":"And they suggest that you take them out on the Sequoia if the weather is good, or have dinner at the White House if it's bad."},{"start":64,"end":67,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Well, we can't do, I've got to take Bob Hope out on Wednesday,"},{"start":67,"end":67,"speaker":"Woods","text":"All right."},{"start":67,"end":70,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Bob Hope and some others on the Sequoia Wednesday. So, we'll do—"},{"start":70,"end":72,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Wait a minute, Wednesday is Wednesday night?"},{"start":72,"end":74,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Yeah, that's right. Hope and who else is there?"},{"start":74,"end":75,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Wait a minute,"},{"start":75,"end":76,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Bebe is coming up then."},{"start":76,"end":79,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Wait, uh Bob Hope isn't till Thursday night,"},{"start":79,"end":80,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Oh, is he?"},{"start":80,"end":83,"speaker":"Woods","text":"is he? No, he's, you got, and you have, Mrs. Nixon has the garden"},{"start":83,"end":85,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Party Thursday."},{"start":85,"end":88,"speaker":"Woods","text":"No, she has Mrs. Hope and Mrs. Sterling and thirty-six people for lunch."},{"start":88,"end":89,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Right."},{"start":89,"end":94,"speaker":"Woods","text":"And then the reception for six hundred in the garden Thursday, from four to six."},{"start":94,"end":96,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Right. Bob Hope isn't coming Thursday night, then?"},{"start":96,"end":101,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Well, let's see. Thursday night, it says, \"The President, Mrs. Nixon, Tricia, Ed, Julie, and David"},{"start":101,"end":103,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Yeah."},{"start":103,"end":106,"speaker":"Woods","text":"have dinner on the Sequoia at 7:30.\""},{"start":106,"end":109,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Thursday night, well that's, oh I see, maybe that's it. Well that would be just family."},{"start":109,"end":111,"speaker":"Woods","text":"That's only, that's just the immediate family."},{"start":111,"end":112,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Just the family."},{"start":112,"end":113,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Yeah."},{"start":113,"end":118,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"What about, wait a minute, the Keyes, when is the dinner that we have the other folks for, for Paul Keyes?"},{"start":118,"end":121,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Wait, and Thursday night the, wait, Thursday night the house guests"},{"start":121,"end":122,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Yeah."},{"start":122,"end":127,"speaker":"Woods","text":"have dinner at the Tayloe House, which is fifty people, and that's Paul Keyes and those people."},{"start":127,"end":128,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Oh, they do?"},{"start":128,"end":129,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Yeah."},{"start":129,"end":130,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"I see, yeah."},{"start":130,"end":132,"speaker":"Woods","text":"And and then they're invited to Nancy Lammerding's for a nightcap."},{"start":132,"end":133,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"[laughs] All right."},{"start":133,"end":136,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Then on Friday, the godparents have lunch for thirty"},{"start":136,"end":137,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Yeah."},{"start":137,"end":139,"speaker":"Woods","text":"at the Sulgrave Club. That's, I don't know who they are."},{"start":139,"end":140,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Yeah, Ed's."},{"start":140,"end":145,"speaker":"Woods","text":"And then the guests that aren't at the lunch are invited to a tour of the State Department diplomatic reception rooms."},{"start":145,"end":146,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Good."},{"start":146,"end":149,"speaker":"Woods","text":"And then from three to five, some guests go on the Sequoia,"},{"start":149,"end":150,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Good."},{"start":150,"end":152,"speaker":"Woods","text":"for thirty people, with Bebe as the host."},{"start":152,"end":153,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"That's good."},{"start":153,"end":158,"speaker":"Woods","text":"And then Friday night is the rehearsal dinner at the F Street Club, which is forty people."},{"start":158,"end":160,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Right, fine."},{"start":160,"end":163,"speaker":"Woods","text":"And and then the non-rehearsal people, dinner on the Sequoia, sixty people."},{"start":163,"end":164,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Right, good."},{"start":164,"end":166,"speaker":"Woods","text":"And then on Saturday is the wedding."},{"start":166,"end":167,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Right."},{"start":167,"end":170,"speaker":"Woods","text":"And on Sunday, Helene Drown is having eighty people at the F Street Club."},{"start":170,"end":173,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Great, well that takes care of everything then. Okay, that's fine."},{"start":173,"end":175,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Do you have, are you, what about tomorrow night, Mr. President?"},{"start":175,"end":178,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Tomorrow night? I don't know, whatever you got there, what is it?"},{"start":178,"end":181,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Well, tomorrow night it says, \"The President, Mrs. Nixon, Tricia, and Julie, quiet dinner at the White House.\""},{"start":181,"end":182,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Fine, we need that."},{"start":182,"end":183,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Yeah."},{"start":183,"end":184,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Okay, thank you."},{"start":184,"end":185,"speaker":"Woods","text":"Yes, sir."}],"transcriptCreatedAt":"2026-10-27T14:33:14.133Z","transcriptModel":"google/gemini-3.8-flash","transcriptSource":"audio-llm","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/004-054.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/004-054","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/004/conversation-004-054","catalogNaId":417188775,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417188775","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). 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