Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 37 › Conversation 037-174

Nixon phone call with Eisenhower on Travel and Florida

Tuesday, March 20, 1973 · 7:24 PM–7:26 PM ET · White House Telephone · 3 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Eisenhower, Julie NixonConversation037-174 on Tape 37StartTuesday, March 20, 1973 at 7:24 PMEndTuesday, March 20, 1973 at 7:26 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 037-174 ↗

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President Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower discussed potential travel plans to Florida and California, with Julie encouraging her father to spend time in Florida to improve his work environment. The conversation also touched upon arrangements for Charles "Bebe" Rebozo to visit the President in California following the departure of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. Additionally, they briefly discussed Julie’s upcoming speech to a Jewish women’s group in Miami and the positive reception of a laudatory letter the President had recently sent to a captain.

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Hello.
Daddy?
Julie.
Hi.
I just wanted to tell you that I was talking to Bebe this afternoon.
Uh-huh.
And he wanted me to tell you that the weather's really great in Florida.
Mm.
And that he has a surprise for you in the house.
What is?
Ah, the fireplace.
Yeah.
He said it is so beautiful.
Yeah, yeah.
Incidentally, I won't be able to come down this weekend.
Oh, that's too bad.
Because I've got to do some work on a little speech I may have to make next week.
Maybe he was thinking that you might want to go to Walker's and work.
Right.
I can't work there too well.
But anyway, I wanted you to know that if you would call him back, you can sort of do me a favor.
Sure.
I'd like for him to come to California on Tuesday.
Tuesday afternoon after Q leaves, see?
Right, the fourth, that is.
That's right.
And then he'll be there Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
We'll come back Sunday and ask him to do that, okay?
Daddy, are you sure you can't work better in Florida?
I'm afraid not.
Don't you need to get away?
I'm afraid not.
Well, if I get away, I don't know if he'll get the work done.
You'll get it done.
But anyway, that's the way.
Leave it open in your mind, going down.
Yeah.
I really think that you need to change the pace for working.
to do sometime but we'll see but that's really great and i know the fireplace would be marvelous if you can get away bb's free so i just think it's easier to work if you have kind of a new outlook it seems to me that walkers is an awful good place to kind of get away from it all well if i came i just if i have to work i work better to keep his game because i fraction but you're going to be up in a 26th are you right uh-huh
On Monday, I'm going to speak to the Jewish women.
That's a great, great... Up here?
No, it's in Miami.
Marvelous.
Well, you tell them how much we love them.
Okay, I sure will.
Their support and everything.
Listen, Daddy, by the way, that letter you sent to the captain was beautiful.
Well, you finally got it, did you?
My God, I think he's on cloud nine.
Did you get a copy of it?
That's what I mean.
I saw the copy.
It was a nice letter, wasn't it?
Oh, it was really beautiful.
It was beautifully put.
And, uh, boy, I just know it...
Did David like it?
Oh, David just couldn't believe it.
It'll make his career, you know, and also we'll remember him as long as we're here.
Well, he's a good man, and it's good for him to know that.
Well, Daddy, if you want my advice, I think you should consider going to Florida.
All right.
Okay, see you.
Thank you.
Bye.

NARA Description

On March 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 7:24 pm to 7:26 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-174 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 37-174

Date: March 20, 1973
Time: 7:24 pm-7:26 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 422-3]

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                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift during
chronological review 2007-2013]

      Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s conversation with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
              -Message for President
                     -Weather in Florida
                     -Fireplace

      President’s schedule
             -Trip to Florida
                     -President’s speech
                     -Walker’s Cay
             -Rebozo’s schedule
                     -Trip to California
                     -Nguyen Van Thieu
                             -Departure
                     -Florida
                     -Time for work
                     -Key Biscayne
                             -Walker’s Cay

      Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule
              -Jewish women’s group
                     -Miami
                     -President’s message to them

      Letter to unknown captain
              -[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II

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Also recorded on March 21, 1973

  • 037-173 7:10 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:10 pm and 7:24 pm.
  • 422-001 7:10 PM · 12 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 7:10 pm and 7:24 pm.
  • 422-003 7:24 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 7:24 pm to 7:26 pm.
  • 037-175 7:26 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:26 pm and 7:29 pm.
  • 422-004 7:26 PM · 10 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 7:26 pm and 7:29 pm.
  • 422-034 7:26 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 7:26 pm and 7:29 pm.
  • 037-176 7:29 PM · 14 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John W. Dean, III, and Manolo Sanchez talked on the telephone from 7:29 pm to 7:43 pm.
  • 422-005 7:29 PM · 14 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John W. Dean, III, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 7:29 pm to 7:43 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 037-174, March 21, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-174 (accessed October 2, 2026).