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Conversation 100-002

TapeTape 100StartFriday, May 5, 1972 at 11:37 AMEndMonday, May 8, 1972 at 9:10 AMParticipantsWhite House tour groupRecording deviceCabinet Room
AudioNARA Description

a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 11:37 am on May 5, 1972 and 9:10 am on May 8, 1972. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 100-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 100-2

Date: Unknown between May 5 and May 8, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:37 am, May 5 and 9:10 am, May 8, 1972
Location: Cabinet Room

A tour group met

     Cabinet Room
          -Meetings
          -Chairs
               -Names
                     -Donald H. Rumsfeld
                          -Position
                     -John A. Volpe
                          -Position
               -Seating Arrangement
                     -Secretary of the Treasury
               -The President
               -Secretary of Defense
               -Secretary of State
               -The Vice President
               -Secretary of the Treasury
               -Tradition on departure from office

          -Portraits
                -The President’s choices
                     -Dwight D. Eisenhower
                     -[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
                     -Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt

     Stephen B. Bull
          -Office location

     H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
          -Office location

     Alexander P. Butterfield
          -Office location

     The President’s office
          -Phone calls
               -Butterfield’s complaints

     Rose Garden
          -Tricia Nixon Cox’s wedding

The tour group left at an unknown time before 9:10 am, May 8, 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 Do not cite this transcript as authoritative.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.

It's the cat room.
Yeah, it's a good place.
It's where I heard a lot about the cat room.
Of course, the chair, and the chair here representing the community of TAC, the name of the office is on the back.
Now, this is probably Rums, not Rums, but I'll be at this point.
You know, I've met Rums, I've talked to Rums over at the council, to the president, to his special assistant, to the president of the state of TAC.
He had a date on it, but it was made with money in his office.
Okay, here's Secretary of Transportation, he's in the back.
January 6th, Mr. Fauci was appointed.
What they did, the chair is running now for the people, for the office.
Of course, the treasurer is standing right up.
This is the presidency right here.
Who has a name tag on there?
That's right.
Secretary of Defense.
These are your oldest offices.
Secretary of State.
That's Vice President Atkins.
Chair, Director across the table.
I believe Treasury is on one side or the other.
And this is the man who's on the chair here.
It's beautiful that everybody else is here, isn't it?
Yeah.
Uh, they have a little thing they do here.
And when he comes in here, all the others are busy inviting his chairperson.
And then when he leaves office, they take the chairperson.
And, uh, the tradition is here, the president will paint, uh, portraits of his favorite past presidents.
Of course, President Nixon and President Eisenhower, and then President Wilson and President Theodore Roosevelt.
These are two of his favorites.
I don't know what you mean by that.
Thanks, Butterfield.
I'm saying that Butterfield, his office is right on the other side of the president's office.
He's going to be there.
He's supposed to take care of it.
Nothing.
I'm just a guy here on the president's office, you know.
He went over and talked to our chief.
He had about a two-hour session a couple weeks ago.
Butterfield complained that we're not answering the phone fast enough.
It's disturbing him.
The phone is ringing too many times.
He'll be back in a few years or so.
I think we got, I think our service is very late.
This is quite a garden.
That's where she was married, right, Tim?
Yeah, I mean, it's back out that way.
I think it was right at that garage, I believe.
That's the one socket for us over here all the time.
He has no stop.
He's always checking the stop.
This is what I do.
That's right.
Is the first guy you need to pay raise a million?
Let's go.
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