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White House tour group on White House tour and Cabinet Room

Friday, May 5, 1972 · 11:37 AM–9:10 AM ET · Cabinet Room ·1 min

ParticipantsWhite House tour groupConversation100-015 onTape 100StartFriday, May 5, 1972 at 11:37 AMEndMonday, May 8, 1972 at 9:10 AMRecording deviceCabinet RoomSourceNixon Library record for 100-015 ↗

AI Summary

A White House staffer or guide provided an informal briefing to a tour group inside the Cabinet Room. The participants discussed the room's historical function, seating arrangements, and the significance of the presidential portraits on display, including those of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore Roosevelt. The tour concluded with brief anecdotes regarding the former White House swimming pool and general commentary on the room's layout.

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And that's the official seat of the press back then.
Since the credits of January 29, 1969.
And the various staff members.
So that's all of that.
And it's three-factor credits now and now.
Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt.
Oh, really?
That's the same reason?
And here is the, it's what's called a road stop.
It's got a way up there.
There's a white one over here on that thing.
Well, it's the end of the time of the year.
It's what's in there.
Well, the swimming pool used to be over there now.
It's under a white house.
The way the West got to this, he told them, you know, this is chicken.
Oh, boy, that's candy.
Boy, that's good candy.

NARA 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 100-015 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 100-15

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
          -Function
                -Press
          -Seating
          -Portraits
                -Dwight D. Eisenhower
                -[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson
                -Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt

     Roosevelt Room

     Swimming pool

The tour group left at an unknown time before 9:10 am, May 8, 1972

Also recorded on May 5, 1972

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  • 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.
  • 100-007 11:37 AM · 3 min — 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.
  • 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 — 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.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 100-015, May 5, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/100-015 (accessed September 18, 2026).