Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 34 › Conversation 034-072

Nixon phone call with Eisenhower on Social engagements and Family coordination

Thursday, December 14, 1972 · 12:01 PM–12:04 PM ET · White House Telephone · 3 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Eisenhower, Julie NixonConversation034-072 on Tape 34StartThursday, December 14, 1972 at 12:01 PMEndThursday, December 14, 1972 at 12:04 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 034-072 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon and his daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, coordinate social scheduling and personal arrangements during this call. The President tasks Julie with extending a dinner invitation to Rose Mary Woods and facilitates plans for a dinner with Alice Roosevelt Longworth by asking Julie to consult with First Lady Pat Nixon. Additionally, they briefly discuss David Eisenhower's new employment and coordinate logistics regarding the First Lady's upcoming travel plans to California.

Social engagements
Family coordination
Rose Mary Woods
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Pat Nixon
David Eisenhower

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I have Julie for you.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Hi.

Hi, Julie.

Daddy.

How is David?

Fine.

Well, I'm just going to say again how pleased I am the job thing's working out.

It's going to be great.

I think so, too.

Great.

And particularly with the girl.

Can I ask you to take on two little assignments now?

Sure.

I think it's very important.

You know, I hadn't thought of it.

just so that there can be no whining about it.

Would you take the responsibility, and I just don't want to get involved in it, to invite Rose to come to dinner tonight?

I may not be able to be there.

Don't tell her that.

Okay.

Because I'm terribly tied up.

But B.B.

is going to stay for dinner, I think, before flying back to Florida.

So would you call and say, ask her to come at 7 o'clock?

Very good.

Or 7.15.

That sounds good.

You know, invite her and so forth.

Second point.

we should have mrs longworth over for dinner i wanted to ask i didn't want to call right right and so would you talk to your mother about it and tell her that i will be available any damn time that she'd like to take the time for how would you like to do it uh at lunch on sunday when mamie's here or is that a bad day after i don't think actually that mrs longworth and mamie is that i put the two together i think they get along but mamie isn't really

quick enough in the areas that what she isn't as interested in the areas that you know what i mean we couldn't talk quite as frankly i'd rather frankly why don't we see how about monday night

I'll be here Monday night.

Will you be here Monday night?

Yeah.

Well, you could offer her, yes, if you could offer her Monday night.

Good.

And tell Mommy, just Mrs. L and you and I and her and Mommy.

That's what she would want anyway.

Right.

How's that sound to you?

That sounds really good.

Fine.

And you work it out with your mother.

Now, if I understand it, your mom says she's got to, she's got all the telephone, the volunteer letter writers on the 20th, right?

And she's ready to leave the 20th.

She'd like to leave on the 20th maybe.

And you're going to try to talk to her a little.

Well, I haven't got all these things on my mind.

I'll mention them to you.

A little about whether when she goes to California, she presently doesn't want to go to just fly out to the game, fly right back.

It's up to her.

I don't really care that much.

NARA Description

On December 14, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 12:01 pm to 12:04 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 034-072 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 34-72

Date: December 14, 1972
Time: 12:01 pm - 12:04 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation 823-6A]

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       [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
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                                                                             Conversation No. 34-72 (cont’d)

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        Employment

        The President’s schedule
             -Rose Mary Woods
                   -Dinner invitation
                   -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
                   -Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s forthcoming telephone call
             -Alice Roosevelt Longworth
                   -Dinner invitation
                   -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
                   -Timing
                   -Mamie G. D. Eisenhower
             -Mrs. Nixon’s schedule
                   -Volunteer letter writers
                   -Forthcoming conversation with Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                          -[Christmas] plans

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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Also recorded on December 14, 1972

034-070 11:49 AM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 11:49 am.
034-151 11:49 AM · 12 sec — the White House operator and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:49 am and 11:54 am.
823-002 11:49 AM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 11:49 am.
034-071 11:54 AM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 11:54 am.
034-152 11:54 AM · 14 sec — the White House operator and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:54 am and 11:55 am.
823-004 11:54 AM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 11:54 am.
823-005 11:54 AM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:54 am and 11:55 am.
823-006 11:55 AM · 35 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Manolo Sanchez, Stephen B. Bull, and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:55 am to 12:30 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 034-072, December 14, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/034-072 (accessed September 28, 2026).