Nixon White House Tapes ›Tape 104 › Conversation 104-007

White House tour group on White House tour and Cabinet Room

Saturday, July 1, 1972 · 10:40 AM–10:16 AM ET · Cabinet Room

ParticipantsWhite House tour groupConversation104-007 onTape 104StartSaturday, July 1, 1972 at 10:40 AMEndFriday, July 21, 1972 at 10:16 AMRecording deviceCabinet RoomSourceNixon Library record for 104-007 ↗

AI Summary

An unnamed guide provides a group of visitors with an informal tour of the White House Cabinet Room. The discussion focuses on the room's historical decor, seating arrangements, and the specific procurement process for Cabinet chairs. No official policy or political business is conducted, as the conversation serves strictly to orient the public on the room's function and physical history.

Audio

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Transcript (AI-generated)

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12:30We did the same thing here.
12:31We had shelves, crud, they had those all up there.
12:38We left one Democrat in it.
12:41And they had a funny kind of cornice up there.
12:44We changed the table.
12:45This is where I sit.
12:47The president sits there.
12:53The vice president over there, then you go out and they take your apartment.
12:59Oh, oh.
13:00These are the third set of chairs we've had.
13:06Each time, you get a fine.
13:11And they buy the chair for you.
13:12You have a chair.
13:17He's not going to let $480 in.
13:18He's that guy.
13:21So I'm going to keep the two I have.
13:23I just picked mine, you know.
13:25Yeah.
13:29After I came back in the 80's.

NARA Description

a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 10:40 am on July 1, 1972 and 10:16 am on July 21, 1972. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 104-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 104-7

Date: Unknown between July 1 and July 21, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:40 am, July 1 and 10:16 am, July 21, 1972
Location: Cabinet Room

Unknown people [tour group] met

     Cabinet Room
          -Purpose
          -Chairs

     [Unintelligible -- helicopter noise]

The tour group left at an unknown time before 10:16 am, July 21, 1972

Also recorded on July 1, 1972

  • 104-001 10:40 AM — Unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 10:40 am on July 1, 1972 and 10:16 am on July 21, 1972.
  • 104-002 10:40 AM — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 10:40 am on July 1, 1972 and 10:16 am on July 21, 1972.
  • 104-003 10:40 AM — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 10:40 am on July 1, 1972 and 10:16 am on July 21, 1972.
  • 104-004 10:40 AM — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 10:40 am on July 1, 1972 and 10:16 am on July 21, 1972.
  • 104-005 10:40 AM — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 10:40 am on July 1, 1972 and 10:16 am on July 21, 1972.
  • 104-006 10:40 AM — Unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 10:40 am on July 1, 1972 and 10:16 am on July 21, 1972.
  • 104-014 10:40 AM — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 10:40 am on July 1, 1972 and 10:16 am on July 21, 1972.
  • 026-033 11:00 AM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon and U. Alexis Johnson talked on the telephone from 11:00 am to 11:12 am.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 104-007, July 1, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/104-007 (accessed September 18, 2026).