President Nixon and his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, held a brief late-night telephone call to coordinate the President's sleep schedule and discuss his recent interview with CBS journalist Dan Rather. Woods provided her personal assessment of the interview's reception and updated the President regarding subsequent phone calls she had received concerning the broadcast. The conversation served primarily as a debriefing session to gauge public and media reaction before the President retired for the evening.
On January 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 11:44 pm to 11:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 017-165 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 17-165
Date: January 2, 1972
Time: 11:44 pm - 11:45 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.
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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 01/02/2018.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[017-165-w001]
[Duration: 19s]
The President’s schedule
-Bed time
The President’s interview with Dan Rather
-Rose Mary Woods’s phone calls
-Rose Mary Woods’s assessment of the interview
The President’s schedule
-Bed time
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