Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 32 › Conversation 032-082

Nixon phone call with Cox on Campaign surrogates meeting

Sunday, October 29, 1972 · 9:34 AM–9:35 AM ET · White House Telephone · 1 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia NixonConversation032-082 on Tape 32StartSunday, October 29, 1972 at 9:34 AMEndSunday, October 29, 1972 at 9:35 AMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 032-082 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417194059 ↗

President Nixon confirmed with his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, that she and other family members would attend a campaign surrogates meeting. They discussed the meeting's attendees, including Haig, Ehrlichman, and MacGregor, and confirmed Tricia's upcoming travel to Wisconsin, Julie's to Syracuse, and Ed's to North Carolina. The President instructed them to meet him at his Executive Office Building office at 11:00 am to depart together for the meeting.

  • Campaign surrogates meeting
  • Family schedules
  • Tricia Nixon Cox's travel
  • Julie Nixon Eisenhower's travel
  • Edward F. Cox's travel
  • Executive Office Building

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This clip of the conversation was cut from the tape by the National Archives (catalog record ↗).

On October 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 9:34 am to 9:35 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-082 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 032-082

Date: October 29, 1972
Time: 9:34 am - 9:35 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 377-9]

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 01/12/2018.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]

[032-082-w001]
[Duration: 1m 12s]

       The President's Schedule
              -Campaign Surrogates meeting
                      -Alexander M. Haig, John Ehrlichman, Clark MacGregor
                      -Edward F. Cox, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                      -The President and Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
              -Tricia Nixon Cox's schedule
                      -Wisconsin

Tricia Nixon Cox conferred with Edward F. Cox at an unknown time between 9:34 and 9:35 a.m.

       Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule
               -Syracuse, New York

       Edward F. Cox's schedule
             -North Carolina

[End of conferral]

       Campaign schedule

       The President’s Schedule
              -Executive Office Building
                     -Camp David departure
                            -Timing

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NixonHello.
CoxDaddy?
NixonHi.
NixonI wanted to be sure you uh you you're going to go to the surrogates thing today.
CoxWe we're going to go with you, right?
NixonFine. Be there at 11:00. I'm going to speak and then I have to leave cause I have to go to Camp David, but I think you ought to stay if you uh, unless you wanted to do something else. What I mean is that you're going to have General Haig and John Ehrlichman and Clark MacGregor on for another, it'll be very good, very interesting. Is Ed going?
CoxYes, we're all going. Julie, Ed, I. Mother's going, too.
NixonRight, Mommy will leave with me.
CoxOh, Mommy's going to leave with you. Right.
NixonRight, right.
CoxOkay.
NixonWhere do you go tomorrow, Tricia?
CoxI'm going to Wisconsin.
NixonOh, great. That's very important.
CoxAnd Ed, you're going to-
CoxJulie's going to Syracuse, New York.
NixonI'll tell you what you do.
CoxEd's going to North Carolina.
NixonWhen you want, when you're all ready, when you're all ready come over to the EOB office, and we'll all go in from here.
CoxIn your EOB office?
NixonYes, I'm in the EOB office, and so-
CoxWhen what time should we be there, did you say?
Nixon5:00 till 11:00.
CoxOkay, fine. Very good. We'll meet you there at 5:00 to 11:00. Bye.
NixonFine, bye-bye.
  • 377-007 9:20 AM · 12 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:20 am to 9:30 am.
  • 377-008 9:30 AM · 44 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 9:30 am and 9:34 am.
  • 377-009 9:30 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:30 am and 9:34 am.
  • 377-010 9:34 AM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:34 am to 9:35 am.
  • 032-083 9:35 AM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:35 am and 9:39 am.
  • 377-011 9:35 AM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Rose Mary Woods, and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:35 am to 9:40 am.
  • 032-084 9:39 AM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 9:39 am to 9:40 am.
  • 377-012 9:40 AM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:40 am and 10:03 am.

Conversation 032-082, October 29, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417194059). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-082 (accessed October 30, 2026).