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Conversation 087-007

TapeTape 87StartMonday, January 3, 1972 at 4:44 PMEndThursday, January 20, 1972 at 2:45 PMParticipantsWhite House tour groupRecording deviceCabinet Room
AI Summary

A White House tour group received an informational walkthrough of the Cabinet Room, guided by an unidentified staff member. The briefing covered the historical arrangement of seating by protocol, the significance of the presidential chair and its integrated service buttons, and the selection of portraits displayed in the room. The tour also highlighted the aesthetic and ceremonial history of the adjacent Rose Garden, including its use for wedding ceremonies.

White HouseCabinet RoomTourProtocolRose GardenPresidential Traditions
AudioNARA Description

a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 4:44 pm on January 3, 1972 and 2:45 pm on January 20, 1972. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 087-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 87-7

Date: Unknown between January 3 and January 20, 1972
Time: Unknown between 4:44 pm, January 3 and 2:45 pm, January 20, 1972
Location: Cabinet Room

Unknown people met

     Cabinet Room
          -Table
          -President
          -Seating arrangement
                -President
                -Secretaries
                      -Maurice H. Stans
                -Henry A. Kissinger
                -Ownership of chairs

           -President’s chair
                 -Lyndon B. Johnson
                      -Call buttons by his chair
                            -Soda
                            -Service request button
           -Cabinet Secretaries

     Portraits

     The White House Rose Garden
         -Wedding

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 2:45 pm, January 20, 1972
Transcript (AI-Generated)

This transcript was generated automatically by AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite this transcript as authoritative. Consult the Finding Aid above for verified information.

President Johnson has a little story.
President Johnson has a little story down there.
Wow!
Wow!
Wow!
Wow!
Wow!
And you'll notice that there are three teams in here, and these are traditionally picked by the president when he comes in to office, and he'll pick the people he particularly admires, so President Eisenhower, of course, appears to face the water, and President Wilson, and he goes to help, so he's bipartisan in my opinion.
I don't think the Republican Party is going to be as good as the Republican Party.
And the Rose Garden, you might get a clear view of it.
Of course, this is where the wedding took place.
They had the arbor set up right here on the stairs, right out the door here on the steps, and this is where the ceremony took place.
No, it's a surprise to a lot of people.
It was a crowd.
Illinois, across the border in Illinois, a box of sunroofs.
And that's been the first green thing I've seen on a box of sunroofs.
You really appreciate things that you grew up with.
It's just a cat in the room.
The president sits here.
The vice president right by the office.
And, uh...
The president is appointed past secretary of defense to the secretary of state.
The vice president is appointed by the secretary of the treasury of the treasury in general.
The other chairs are arranged along the way by protocols by his department.
Who would sit back in these other chairs, secretaries, this sort of thing, or would anybody take the mic, please?
Oh, a space for the cabinet secretary and presidential staff that might be called on to offer some technical expertise on the subject of cancer.
Mr. Soros started it here.
There's a serious order of attrition and attacks to change the violence.
The president will use this in nice weather for greeting really large groups.
It's a little bit colored, isn't it?
This is the third world war.
William Spurge, here at Rembrandt's, over here in the Stairway to Stairway to Stairway to Stairway to Stairway to Stairway to Stairway to Stairway to Stairway to Stairway
We're at 22nd now, and he's on the phone right here.
What?
He's three years old.
He's in prison.
He's going to stay at the city.
He's an anti-cone bastard, Lawrence.
He's got two of them.
That's that.
That's the car.
He was that, and now he's that.
They vote, really.
I thought they had to make an ambassador in order to have people represent the United States as a bench.
One of them must be the Secretary of State.
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