Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 155 › Conversation 155-023

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Thanksgiving

Tuesday, November 21, 1972 · 9:24 AM–9:25 AM ET · Camp David Study Table · 1 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Nixon, Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan)Conversation155-023 on Tape 155StartTuesday, November 21, 1972 at 9:24 AMEndTuesday, November 21, 1972 at 9:25 AMRecording deviceCamp David Study TableSourceNixon Library record for 155-023 ↗

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President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon coordinated logistics for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and subsequent travel to New York. The discussion focused on scheduling the holiday dinner around football broadcasts and finalizing travel arrangements for their visit to the city, which included a planned stop at the President’s former law firm. They also confirmed the travel plans for family friend Bebe Rebozo to join them at the White House.

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What we will do is that we will have, say, kind of an early dinner here, because I'd like to look at the football game at noon anyway, and Thanksgiving.
And then we'll go back to the White House Thursday night, back to the White House, because Friday morning I have to
I have two appointments in Washington that I have to do, and then we'll go up to New York at about eleven o'clock.
Hope to, at least.
Leave at about eleven.
Okay?
Okay.
That sounds fun.
And you can arrive there in time for the—to do everything.
Great.
I think I'm going to go down and call on the people at the old law firm.
I haven't been there.
This will be a good time to get that out of the way.
And I think B.B.
's going to come up, isn't he?
Did you find out?
Yeah.
Will he arrive?
Will he go to New York and come with us?
No, he was going to come here, she told him.
I heard her.
Okay.
She mentioned him to come here.
Good.
Is that all right?
All right, fine.
Yeah, that's better.
That's fine.
That's better.
Okay.
All right, fine.
Good.

NARA Description

On November 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan) Nixon talked on the telephone at Camp David from 9:24 am to 9:25 am. The Camp David Study Table taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 155-023 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 155-23

Date: November 21, 1972
Time: 9:24 am - 9:25 am
Location: Camp David Study Table

The President talked with Thelma .C. (“Pat”) Nixon.

[See Conversation No. 229-10]

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        Thanksgiving dinner
             -Timing
             -Football game

        White House
             -Appointments

        Trip to New York
              -Departure
              -Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and Alexander Law Firm
              -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
                   -Tricia Nixon Cox, Julie Nixon Eisenhower
                   -Arrangements

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Also recorded on November 21, 1972

  • 155-022 9:10 AM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 9:10 am and 9:24 am.
  • 229-008 9:10 AM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 9:10 am and 9:24 am.
  • 229-009 9:10 AM · 18 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 9:10 am and 9:24 am.
  • 229-010 9:24 AM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan) Nixon met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 9:24 am to 9:25 am.
  • 155-024 9:25 AM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 9:25 am and 9:28 am.
  • 229-011 9:25 AM · 1 hr 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Camp David operator, Rose Mary Woods, John V. Brennan, and unknown person(s) met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 9:25 am and 10:35 am.
  • 155-025 9:28 AM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone at Camp David from 9:28 am to 9:32 am.
  • 183-003 9:33 AM · 1 min — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Camp David operator, and Lawrence M. Higby talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 9:33 am and 4:41 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 155-023, November 21, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/155-023 (accessed October 9, 2026).