Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 46 › Conversation 046-143

Woods & Acker on Office Administration and Patricia Reilly Hitt

Tuesday, May 22, 1973 · 12:05 PM–12:25 PM ET · White House Telephone · 56 sec

ParticipantsWoods, Rose Mary; White House operator; [Unknown person(s)]; Acker, Marjorie P.Conversation046-143 on Tape 46StartTuesday, May 22, 1973 at 12:05 PMEndTuesday, May 22, 1973 at 12:25 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 046-143 ↗

AI Summary

Rose Mary Woods coordinates office logistics with her staff, specifically requesting a delivery of drafting paper to facilitate potential typing work. She also arranges to reschedule an appointment with Patricia Reilly Hitt to accommodate these tasks. The discussion focuses on routine administrative management and scheduling adjustments within the White House office.

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Hi, could you, this is Rose, would you ring my office by door?

Good morning, Miss, what's happening?

Hi, it's Lauren Saffron.

Yes, just a moment.

Hello?

Hi.

I have to stay out here because they're working on something.

I'm not sure that I won't need some, um, I don't know what kind of paper we've got over here, if any.

You want to bring some out?

Some of that, you know, like I use for draft.

Okay, do you need anything else?

No.

I'm just going to correct type in case I have to work on something.

Okay.

And then I'll tell Pat Hitch you'll have to wait.

Okay.

Okay, thanks.

NARA Description

On May 22, 1973, Rose Mary Woods, White House operator, unknown person(s), and Marjorie P. Acker talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:05 pm and 12:25 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 046-143 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 46-143

Date: May 22, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:05 pm and 12:25 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Rose Mary Woods talked with the White House operator.

     Telephone call to Woods’s office

Woods talked with an unknown woman [receptionist] at an unknown time.

     Telephone call to Marjorie P. Acker

Woods talked with Marjorie P. Acker at an unknown time.

     Woods’s schedule

     Paper and office supplies
           -Delivery

     Patricia Reilly Hitt
           -Schedule

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 046-143, May 22, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/046-143 (accessed October 12, 2026).