Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 67 › Conversation 067-002

White House tour group on White House tours and Cabinet Room

Friday, July 30, 1971 · 9:54 AM–10:10 AM ET · Cabinet Room · 2 min

ParticipantsWhite House tour groupConversation067-002 on Tape 67StartFriday, July 30, 1971 at 9:54 AMEndFriday, July 30, 1971 at 10:10 AMRecording deviceCabinet RoomSourceNixon Library record for 067-002 ↗

AI Summary

An unknown guide leads a student group on an educational tour of the White House Cabinet Room. The briefing focuses on the room's physical layout, including the utility of specific chairs for support staff and secretaries. Participants also receive information regarding the landing site for the President's helicopter.

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The chairs along the sides would be used by other staff that would be necessary for a specific meeting.

Support staff.

Aids to heavy secretaries, perhaps.

I don't think there are any other reasons.

I'd like you to see where the President's Telecaster lands and takes over.

Thank you for watching!

NARA Description

On July 30, 1971, a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 9:54 am and 10:10 am. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 067-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 67-2

Date: Unknown between July 30 and August 5, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:54 am, July 30 and 10:10 am, August 5, 1971
Location: Cabinet Room

An unknown man and unknown students met

     Cabinet Room
          -Uses
          -Chairs
          -President’s flag
          -The US flag
          -The President’s helicopter

The unknown people left an unknown time before 10:10 am, August 5, 1971

Also recorded on July 30, 1971

067-003 9:54 AM · 3 min — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 9:54 am and 10:10 am.
067-004 9:54 AM · 6 min — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 9:54 am and 10:10 am.
067-005 9:54 AM — unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 9:54 am and 10:10 am.
067-006 9:54 AM — unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 9:54 am and 10:10 am.
067-007 9:54 AM · 22 sec — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 9:54 am and 10:10 am.
067-009 9:54 AM — unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 9:54 am and 10:10 am.
067-010 9:54 AM — unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 9:54 am and 10:10 am.
552-001 9:54 AM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:54 am and 10:23 am.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 067-002, July 30, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/067-002 (accessed October 13, 2026).