President Nixon initiated this telephone call to Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff to offer his personal sympathies regarding the severe illness of the Senator’s wife, Ruth Siegel Ribicoff. The conversation served as a gesture of bipartisan goodwill, with the President conveying that the White House leadership was thinking of the family. Nixon also requested that the Senator extend best wishes from both himself and First Lady Pat Nixon during this difficult time.
On March 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Abraham A. Ribicoff talked on the telephone from 2:29 pm to 2:38 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 21-16 Date: March 7, 1972 Time: 2:29 pm - 2:38 pm Location: White House Telephone The President talked with Abraham A. Ribicoff. [See Conversation No. 322-27] Ruth Siegel Ribicoff -Previous Republican Congressional Leadership meeting -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
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