Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 23 › Conversation 023-021

Nixon phone call with Cox on Richard J. Daley and Chicago

Tuesday, April 18, 1972 · 2:45 PM–2:49 PM ET · White House Telephone · 4 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia NixonConversation023-021 on Tape 23StartTuesday, April 18, 1972 at 2:45 PMEndTuesday, April 18, 1972 at 2:49 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 023-021 ↗

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President Nixon and his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, discuss their respective schedules and recent public events, including a meeting with the PRC table tennis delegation. The President advises Tricia on her upcoming trip to Chicago, specifically instructing her to maintain positive relations with Mayor Richard J. Daley by placing a courtesy call to his office. They also touch upon photographic arrangements for Julie Nixon Eisenhower and the President’s potential plans to visit Camp David.

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Hello.
Hello.
Patricia's back.
Hello.
Hello.
Patricia?
Yeah, Dad.
Well, we got the people welcomed all right.
They were all right.
Listen, I'm sorry.
I didn't realize you were going down at that time.
I thought it was two.
I didn't mean to bother you right there.
That's right.
Perfectly all right.
I looked out, and all of a sudden, there you were in the garden, too.
Perfectly all right.
It looked like it went very well.
Oh, yeah.
Fine.
No problem.
But I told Haldeman that...
Basically, I would not... Go to campuses.
Well, no, I would go to campuses at a later time after the Moscow Summit would be a good time, you know.
But basically, but generally speaking...
Choose the campus.
I'd choose the campus, but at a sports event, we always have a rule, you're never introduced, you know.
Oh, is that right?
Yeah, because you see, they're just...
Strange crowds.
You just don't know who the hell's there, particularly the tennis crowd.
Did you remember you had that experience in a tennis crowd before?
Silence, yeah.
That's right.
You mentioned that to me, too.
But nevertheless, it's no great problem.
Oh, Daddy, look, you know how many bars are there?
sort of section to the right but the balance of the people just don't react enough you see to this jackass exactly but no it was it was it was fun but uh rogers didn't think about anything anyway but uh see as it may uh what is your situation now are you going to be here tonight are you going home or what i'm going to be here um because i have some things at the end of the week
Good.
I'm going to go out to Chicago and then a few other places.
Going to Chicago?
Great.
What kind of events are you going to be doing?
Well, I'm going to be doing three events.
One is the Republican Women's Conference.
Great, great.
That's the Northwest group.
Great.
And then I'm also doing a television program, Half an Hour.
Great.
And then also giving the mayor of a city there, right outside of Chicago in the suburb, about, I don't know, $10,000 for a park, but the significance of that is that it will be the billionth dollar given for, you know, public recreation.
That's great.
So, I don't know, those three things.
And, well, when you're in Chicago, say nice things about Daley, because he's playing our game right now.
Oh, is he?
Yeah.
And they run a good show, and you might...
If you're there, just make a note while you're there.
You just place a call to him and just say your father wanted to extend his best wishes and to thank him for the good reception.
I guess he might not be at any of those things.
He won't attend the events, no, because they're private.
But you just call it in his office and just say that your father, yes, you do that, wanted me to extend his best wishes.
How can I arrange that about the call?
Just tell your Secret Service person.
Okay.
I don't know.
I mean, whoever you got with you there, they can make a call.
That sounds good.
And say that you're calling.
You're sticking on your best wishes from your father.
He remembers his plug.
The mayor has always arranged when he's been in Chicago.
Okay, good, Dad.
And that's a good way to handle that.
That sounds good.
And then I'll go on, and you can go on.
Well, that's good.
That's good.
Well, I'm going to have a picture taken with Julia, I guess.
Oh, you know who's going to take it?
Otto Stupakoff.
Yeah.
He did it for Mommy, me, and the Germans.
He's good.
He's very good.
I will.
I think his wife was a Miss Universe.
Oh, boy.
So he photographs her a lot.
But anyway, he's a very nice man.
Yeah.
Yeah, so that's good.
He takes good pictures, too.
So I'll see you then tonight.
Yeah.
I might go to Camp David.
I'm not sure.
If not, then?
If not, I'll be here.
Okay.
But I might go over there.
But in any event, we'll see you then.
Okay.
Bye-bye.
Okay.
Bye, Daddy.

NARA Description

On April 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 2:45 pm to 2:49 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-021 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 23-21

Date: April 18, 1972
Time: 2:45-2:49 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See also Conversation No. 711-18]

     The President's schedule
          -Meeting with People's Republic of China [PRC] and US table tennis delegations
          -Conversation with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
               -Visit to college campuses
                      -Post-Moscow summit period
                      -Introductions at sports events
     Tricia Nixon Cox's schedule
           -Attendance at table tennis event
                -William P. Rogers
           -Chicago
                -Republican Women's Conference
                -Television program
                -Meeting with unknown Illinois mayor
                     -Public recreation funds
                -Richard J. Daley
                     -Telephone call

     The President's schedule
          -Photograph with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
               -Otto Stupakoff
                      -Wife
          -Camp David

Also recorded on April 18, 1972

  • 023-020 1:46 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:46 pm and 2:45 pm.
  • 711-015 1:48 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:48 pm to 1:50 pm.
  • 711-016 1:50 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 2:45 pm.
  • 711-017 1:50 PM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 2:45 pm.
  • 711-018 2:45 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:45 pm to 2:49 pm.
  • 711-019 3:02 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:02 pm to 3:03 pm.
  • 711-020 3:03 PM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:03 pm and 3:09 pm.
  • 711-021 3:09 PM · 27 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Earl L. Butz, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:09 pm to 3:37 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 023-021, April 18, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-021 (accessed October 12, 2026).