Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 4 › Conversation 004-094

Nixon phone call with Woods on Correspondence and Luis Aparicio

Wednesday, June 9, 1971 · 2:52 PM–2:55 PM ET · White House Telephone · 1 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose MaryConversation004-094 on Tape 4 (tape position 03:22:20–03:23:38)StartWednesday, June 9, 1971 at 2:52 PMEndWednesday, June 9, 1971 at 2:55 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 004-094 ↗

President Nixon consulted with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, to confirm the status of correspondence sent to baseball player Luis Aparicio regarding his hitting streak. The two also discussed a personal letter and poem the President wrote to a young girl early that morning. Nixon instructed Woods to share the girl's correspondence with Richard A. Moore, emphasizing that it should be handled discreetly rather than publicized.

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Hello?
I have Ms. Woods now, Mr. President.
There you are.
Thank you.
Hello?
Uh, Rose?
Yes?
I was wondering the other day, did you get that letter off the baseball player okay?
Louie Aparicio was the name.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
Somebody remembered his name.
Louie Aparicio was the one.
Aparicio.
The one who had not, is that the one who had not had a hit?
44.
44 hits.
Yeah, 44 times.
Yeah, and then he got a hit, you know.
So we changed it just a little bit.
Well, did he get one before the letter got off?
He got one the day you wrote your letter.
Oh, I see.
And so it was just changed slightly to...
I'll send you a copy if you'd like to see it.
Oh, no, no, no.
I just...
It was good, saying, you know... Yeah, fine.
I remember seeing it coming back in here.
Good, good, good.
You might make a note.
The letter to the little girl I wrote at 6.30 this morning.
Okay.
You might just put that in your file.
And you might...
show the incoming letter and that to dick moore i don't want him to publicize it because but she might see and he will know how to all right how to handle it so that he knows okay sure fine because the poem is so good it really is beautiful okay all right

On June 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 2:52 pm to 2:55 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 004-094 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 4-94

Date: June 9, 1971
Time: 2:53 pm - 2:55 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 255-37]

     President's letter to Luis Aparicio
           -Problems with hitting

     President's letter to little girl
           -Time of preparation
           -Richard A. Moore
  • 004-092 1:32 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:32 pm and 2:53 pm.
  • 255-037 2:53 PM · 32 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:53 pm to 2:55 pm.
  • 255-038 2:53 PM · 47 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), Ronald L. Ziegler, Manolo Sanchez, Alexander P. Butterfield, White House operator, and George P. Shultz met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:53 pm to 4:35 pm.
  • 004-095 2:55 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:55 pm and 3:07 pm.
  • 004-096 3:07 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 3:07 pm to 3:09 pm.
  • 004-097 3:13 PM · 31 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 3:13 pm to 3:14 pm.
  • 004-098 3:51 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:51 pm and 4:04 pm.
  • 004-099 4:04 PM · 13 min — President Richard M. Nixon and George P. Shultz talked on the telephone from 4:04 pm to 4:17 pm.

Conversation 004-094, June 9, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/004-094 (accessed September 27, 2026).