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Ziegler & White House tour group on White House tours and Cabinet Room

Friday, May 5, 1972 · 11:37 AM–9:10 AM ET · Cabinet Room · 3 min

ParticipantsZiegler, Ronald L.; White House tour groupConversation100-007 on Tape 100StartFriday, May 5, 1972 at 11:37 AMEndMonday, May 8, 1972 at 9:10 AMRecording deviceCabinet RoomSourceNixon Library record for 100-007 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417174343 ↗

AI Summary

Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler conducted an informal tour of the White House Cabinet Room for a group of visitors, including children. During the visit, Ziegler explained the seating arrangements and significance of the room while engaging the group in lighthearted mock decision-making exercises regarding the economy. The tour concluded with participants examining the room's new carpeting and souvenir materials associated with the various Cabinet positions.

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NARA Description

Ronald L. Ziegler and 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 100-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 100-7

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

Ronald L. Ziegler met with a tour group

     Cabinet Room
          -Chairs
               -Names
               -The President
               -Secretaries of departments
               -The Vice President

     Decision making
          -Economy

     Souvenir paper
         -Secretary of State

     Cabinet Room
          -Carpeting
          -Ziegler’s chair
          -Evaluated

Ziegler, et al. left at an unknown time before 9:10 am, May 8, 1972

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See, this is what I couldn't be with if it wasn't for you.
All of the first captain members' names are on the back of the chair.
What would you like to decide?
Vicki, what would you like to decide?
Do you think that we should improve the economy?
Yes.
You do?
Yes.
to feed people better.
Excuse me, buddy, if you had all of the things that you wanted to have, what would you like to have?
Huh?
Good, okay.
Now take your, take a piece of that.
Just take it off of there.
Just pull it off.
Pull it off.
There.
Okay, if you think that's it.
The President is bad, the Secretary of State is bad, and the President is bad, all right?
This is the new carpet that you put in here.
This is the only one that I've attributed to this new carpet.
I sit here, see how I got up and done with it.
So I came back in and I can put this here.
This is good.
Yeah.
Now here, let's just walk over here.

Also recorded on May 5, 1972

  • 100-002 11:37 AM · 3 min — 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.
  • 100-003 11:37 AM · 2 min — 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.
  • 100-004 11:37 AM · 16 sec — 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.
  • 100-005 11:37 AM · 2 min — 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.
  • 100-006 11:37 AM · 1 min — 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.
  • 100-008 11:37 AM · 2 min — 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.
  • 100-009 11:37 AM · 30 min — George P. Shultz and 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.
  • 100-010 11:37 AM · 40 sec — Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and 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.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 100-007, May 5, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417174343). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/100-007 (accessed November 2, 2026).