Nixon White House Tapes ›Tape 105 › Conversation 105-002

White House tour group on White House tour and Cabinet Room

Friday, September 8, 1972 · 5:31 PM–10:06 AM ET · Cabinet Room

ParticipantsWhite House tour groupConversation105-002 onTape 105StartFriday, September 8, 1972 at 5:31 PMEndMonday, September 11, 1972 at 10:06 AMRecording deviceCabinet RoomSourceNixon Library record for 105-002 ↗

AI Summary

A White House tour group explored the Cabinet Room while receiving an informal briefing on the facility's layout and historical significance. The participants discussed the seating arrangements for the President and Cabinet members and noted the room's view of the Rose Garden, specifically referencing its role as the site of Tricia Nixon Cox’s wedding. The conversation concluded as the group observed the connections between the Cabinet Room and the main residential and administrative sections of the White House.

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Transcript (AI-generated)

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58:04Look down here.
58:05Look down here, Ruby.
58:29Well, in our church, the beach is very, very nice.
58:39And there's your rose garden.
58:40And she got married right here.
58:47It looks larger.
58:48It always does.
58:49She got married right here at the steps.
58:56We can go on that way.
58:57Is that the kind of a back door over there?
59:00Well, that leads on to the main part of the White House.
59:03Oh, is that going to join on to the White House?
59:05Yeah, that'd be the White House.
59:07We're just at the corner of it.

NARA Description

a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 5:31 pm on September 8, 1972 and 10:06 am on September 11, 1972. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 105-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 105-2

Date: Unknown between September 8 and September 11, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:31 pm, September 8 and 10:06 am, September 11, 1972
Location: Cabinet Room

A tour group met

     Cabinet Room
          -Chairs
               -The President, Vice President, the Cabinet members
          -[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson’s portrait
          -View from window
               -Rose Garden
                     -Tricia Nixon Cox’s wedding to Edward R. F. Cox
          -Access to White House offices

The tour group left at an unknown time before 10:06 am, September 11, 1972

Also recorded on September 8, 1972

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 105-002, September 8, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/105-002 (accessed September 18, 2026).