Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 8 › Conversation 008-117

Nixon phone call with Woods on Press relations and George Meany

Monday, September 13, 1971 · 7:51 PM–7:54 PM ET · White House Telephone · 4 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose MaryConversation008-117 on Tape 8 (tape position 05:28:51–05:32:35)StartMonday, September 13, 1971 at 7:51 PMEndMonday, September 13, 1971 at 7:54 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 008-117 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 645078905 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon and personal secretary Rose Mary Woods discuss the President's demanding schedule and the logistical planning for an upcoming daytime press conference. The conversation touches on the President's desire to manage media access efficiently later in the week. Additionally, Nixon expresses significant frustration regarding AFL-CIO leader George Meany, characterizing his adversarial behavior as particularly troublesome.

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NARA Description

On September 13, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 7:51 pm to 7:54 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-117 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 8-117

Date: September 13, 1971
Time: 7:51 pm - 7:54 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 276-14]

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     Woods’ call
         -Fina Sanchez

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     The President's press conference
          -Time

     George Meany

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Hello?
Hello.
Sounded from the radio like you had a very busy day.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And I don't know.
I called last night.
Yeah, I know.
And then seen it to say no more calls.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
That was all right, I think.
Right, right.

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Okay.
I can follow you by radio and everything, am I?
Well, we're really busy.
I know.
It must be frightful.
I may do a press thing on Wednesday or Thursday.
Not at night, but in the daytime.
The one in your office, you mean?
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Get them out of the way.
Yeah.
Well, that'd be good.
That'd be good.
Well, I think everything seems to be, you know, seems to be going fine, except for my old friend meeting that somebody would shove off a building.
Isn't he something?
He really is incredible.
That's the way life is.
I guess there's always somebody like that around.
Right.
Okay.
Okay, well, thank you so very much.
Bye.

Also recorded on September 13, 1971

  • 008-115 7:43 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and John D. Ehrlichman talked on the telephone from 7:43 pm to 7:47 pm.
  • 008-116 7:47 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:47 pm and 7:51 pm.
  • 276-014 7:51 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 7:51 pm to 7:54 pm.
  • 008-118 7:54 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 7:54 pm.
  • 008-119 7:55 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 7:55 pm to 7:58 pm.
  • 276-015 7:55 PM · 29 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 7:55 pm to 7:58 pm.
  • 276-016 7:58 PM · 7 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 7:58 pm and 8:50 pm.
  • 276-017 7:58 PM · 2 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 7:58 pm and 8:50 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 008-117, September 13, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 645078905). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-117 (accessed November 1, 2026).