Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 80 › Conversation 080-001

White House tour group on White House tour and Cabinet Room

Friday, October 15, 1971 · 10:15 PM–8:06 AM ET · Cabinet Room · 4 min

ParticipantsWhite House tour groupConversation080-001 on Tape 80StartFriday, October 15, 1971 at 10:15 PMEndTuesday, October 19, 1971 at 8:06 AMRecording deviceCabinet RoomSourceNixon Library record for 080-001 ↗

AI Summary

An unidentified tour group visiting the Cabinet Room explored the historical and functional layout of the space. The visitors discussed various features of the room, including the President's chair and the view of the Rose Garden. The conversation primarily served as an informal, guided walk-through of the room's aesthetics and maintenance, concluding when the group departed the area.

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and when they either relax them again or get them to the gym and whatnot, somebody provides the chair for them so they can take the chair with them.
You'd have to buy a little more jewelry.
I ain't selling these.
You're looking different.
This is your mom's side.
This is John's.
Now we're going to have to get out of here.
How does that make sense?
That's where John's from.
But you have to do this.
You have to do this.
You have to do this.
You have to do this.
You have to do this.
You have to do this.
You have to do this.
That's the president's chair, I think.
I guess he gets his too.
I don't know.
This is the view of the directly got on that guy.
Rose Garden.
Rose Garden, picked up this name back in the 90's and 80's.
Five or six rose trees.
There's literally three little rose trees on this side.
Then they had five on this side and five on that side.
Don't hit it.
Don't hit it.
Don't hit it.
Don't hit it.
He has three sets of grass all the time.
He's got dry grass now for the winter.
And come April, we'll throw in the grass.
And come April, they just cut the dredging out and put it in the rye grass.
And walk right down the county, and then we'll walk down there.
Thank you.

NARA Description

a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 10:15 pm on October 15, 1971 and 8:06 am on October 19, 1971. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 080-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 80-1

Date: Unknown between October 15 and October 19, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:15 pm, October 15 and 8:06 am, October 19, 1971
Location: Cabinet Room

Unknown people met

     Cabinet Room tour
          -National Security Council meeting
          -Secretaries of Housing and Agriculture
          -Cabinet
               -Departure
          -Pentagon
          -The President’s chair
          -View
               -Rose Garden
                     -Dwight D. Eisenhower
                     -Grass
          -The President

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 8:06 am, October 19, 1971

Cite this conversation

Conversation 080-001, October 16, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/080-001 (accessed October 12, 2026).