Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 20 › Conversation 020-142
Nixon phone call with Woods on Calvin E. Brumley and Condolences
Wednesday, March 1, 1972 · 7:53 PM–7:54 PM ET · White House Telephone · 3 min
AI Summary
President Nixon and his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, spoke briefly to discuss the recent death of Calvin E. Brumley, who suffered a fatal heart attack on March 4. The President offered his condolences and coordinated plans to place a sympathy call to the widow, Jayne Brumley. Additionally, the two checked in on Woods’s personal health status following her recent concerns.
- Calvin E. Brumley
- Rose Mary Woods
- Condolences
- White House personnel
- Health
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NARA Description
On March 1, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 7:53 pm to 7:54 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-142 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 20-142
Date: March 5, 1972
Time: 7:53 pm - 7:54 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 04/30/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[020-142-w001]
[Duration: 56s]
Rose Mary Woods's health
Calvin E. Brumley
-Death on March 4
-Heart attack
-Condolences
-The President’s planned telephone call to Jayne Brumley
Rose Mary Woods’s health
**********************************************************************Also recorded on March 2, 1972
- 020-141 7:02 PM · 51 sec — the White House operator and Manolo Sanchez talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:02 pm and 7:53 pm.
- 093-002 10:30 AM · 1 hr 17 min — President Richard M. Nixon and members of the Cabinet Committee on Education, including L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III, Elliot L. Richardson, George P. Shultz, Kenneth W. Dam, Paul H. O'Neill, John D. Ehrlichman, Edward L. Morgan, James Clawson, Clark MacGregor, Ronald L. Ziegler, Dana G. Meade, Samuel C. Jackson, William H. Brown, III, Norman B. Houston, Samuel J. Simmons, and Stephen B. Bull, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House from 10:30 am to 11:43 am.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 020-142, March 2, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-142 (accessed October 12, 2026).