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White House tour group on Cabinet Room and White House tours

Wednesday, November 29, 1972 · 6:20 PM–11:59 PM ET · Cabinet Room · 1 min

ParticipantsWhite House tour groupConversation110-009 on Tape 110StartWednesday, November 29, 1972 at 6:20 PMEndWednesday, November 29, 1972 at 11:59 PMRecording deviceCabinet RoomSourceNixon Library record for 110-009 ↗

AI Summary

An unidentified guide provides a briefing to a tour group within the White House Cabinet Room. The discussion focuses on the room's function as a meeting space for presidential committees and highlights the aesthetic and structural modifications made by the Nixon administration, including the selection of portraits and furniture. The guide emphasizes the practical benefits of the room's current layout, noting how it facilitates private conversations and effective organizational operations.

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This is where the candidates meet and also our candidate committees meet here.
This has been changed by Conservatives since we came here.
There's a big cabinet table in the same position.
And of course the President selects the portraits that are in here.
But his chair is the one on there.
When we first came here they had these huge throne chairs.
ac maen nhw'n edrych yn ddiddorol ar hyn o bryd.
Maen nhw'n mynd i fynd yn ôl ac yn dechrau gwneud pethau gweithredu yn fwy ymddygiadol.
Yn hytrach, mae pobl yn sefydlu mewn a ydych chi wedi cwrdd â'r gweithrediad hwnnw?
Ie, oherwydd nid ydym ni wedi gwneud unrhyw beth.
Fe wnaethon nhw ddweud amdanyn nhw a sut y byddai'r tafel wedi'i ddweud rhywbeth yn wahanol ac pan oedd gennych chi'r grŵp yma, gallai fod yn sgwrs ymwneud â rhywbeth sydd heb unrhyw un arall yn y tafel ac nid oedd unrhyw un yn cael ei ddweud amdanyn nhw.
Felly, mewn gwirionedd, mae'r ardal hwn yn y ffordd sydd wedi'i ddweud.
Felly, mewn gwirionedd, mae'r ardal hwn yn y ffordd sydd wedi'i ddweud.
Felly, mae'r ardal hwn yn y ffordd sydd wedi'i ddweud.
Diolch.

NARA Description

On November 29, 1972, a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 6:20 pm and 11:59 pm. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 110-009 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 110-9

Date: November 29, 1972
Time: Unknown between 6:20 pm and 11:59 pm
Location: Cabinet Room

An unknown man and woman met

     Cabinet Room
          -Use
          -Layout
          -Pictures
          -Benefits of new layout

The unknown man and woman left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm

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  • 110-010 6:20 PM — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 6:20 pm and 11:59 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 110-009, November 29, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/110-009 (accessed October 12, 2026).