Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 231 › Conversation 231-005

Nixon phone call with Cox on Diplomatic travel and Middle East

Monday, November 27, 1972 · 11:20 AM–12:05 PM ET · Camp David Hard Wire · 4 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia NixonConversation231-005 on Tape 231StartMonday, November 27, 1972 at 11:20 AMEndMonday, November 27, 1972 at 12:05 PMRecording deviceCamp David Hard WireSourceNixon Library record for 231-005 ↗

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President Nixon meets with his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, to coordinate her upcoming international travel itinerary and discuss domestic renovations at the White House. The President advises Tricia on how to facilitate diplomatic scheduling through the National Security Council and General Haig for her planned visits to Egypt, Jordan, and Israel. Additionally, they discuss administrative details regarding renovations to the third floor of the White House, specifically the modernization of the kitchen facilities.

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I was wondering, uh, about your plans.
I wanted to be, I'm going to be sitting here this week, and I, if you want to spend some time going over them, you'll have to come to me sometime.
What here, what roughly, what roughly, what roughly did, how did you plan the leave, for example?
What kind of schedule?
What kind of schedule?
Let's check with the, uh, go over to the NSC, uh, and, and, uh, uh, uh, uh, Colonel Kennedy over there, excuse me, or, or, or, or General Haig, we'll put you in touch with the person that you know.
The other thing is, is you've got a Kennedy schedule, then of course, take a Uriah thing, and those dates will have to be, you have to let a few people know about those dates, so they'll know,
What you'll do is, what you would do is to have, when you get an appointment, you have to get it all typed out for me.
And then I'll look it over for you.
And you're telling them, you've talked to me and I want you to go to Egypt.
I'd like you to go to Egypt.
You should visit Egypt.
You should also visit, if you want to go to Egypt, and if you want to go to Jordan, and if you want to go to Israel, and if they've got a range, they'll arrange it.
Yes.
Of course you can.
I just don't, I just don't do them.
He said, do you want to do those?
And I told him the other country he wanted to go to, you see.
Uh, uh, yes, ma'am.
You can just go over and ask the senior.
If he could just assign somebody on his staff and work out the schedule for you.
You see.
That's right.
You want to look at the, uh, at the, at the, at the Russian-elected work on this Egypt, Georgia, Georgia, and so on.
Just say that I, I have approved it, that I think it's all right.
I want to, I know it's been called to work on this.
Absolutely.
You can go over and see him.
Okay.
And, uh, then, uh, I'm going to go to Florida.
Thursday night, because I need a couple days off to look at the sun and so forth and so on.
But I'll go to Florida for Friday, you know, for maybe Friday and Saturday and Sunday.
Now, if Mommy wants to go, it's fine, but I don't know.
But if she doesn't, it's fine, too, because I will have to work on that, too.
I have got to be more in control of how this works out.
Now all this stuff, remember I asked you about the, about the, are they really going to work on that third floor thing?
And if I did, I'd also suggest at the same time that they do want to put in, they do want to put in the kitchen.
And it's obviously what's too expensive up here.
Well, if they will anyway, it's 10 years old.
They don't like that gas kind of thing.
It's dangerous.
You know what I mean?
No, it's not at me.
But anyway, but it isn't mine.
It isn't mine.
They want to put it in an electric kitchen.
You know, it doesn't make much sense to be talking to them about that, too.
It would be easier.
But whether they would produce it or not, you see, there are other expenses that might also have to be paid.
So it's kind of natural.
So you can talk to her about that.
The rest of it.
All I need to do is see the plans, and then I can tell you people.
After you get your full schedule, just send it to me, and I'll tell you what to talk to you about some of the countries that you want to see.

NARA Description

On November 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 12:05 pm. The Camp David Hard Wire taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 231-005 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 231-5

Date: November 27, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:20 am and 12:05 pm
Location: Camp David Hard Wire

The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.

[See Conversation No. 156-5]
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Also recorded on November 27, 1972

  • 156-004 11:20 AM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 12:05 pm.
  • 156-005 11:20 AM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 12:05 pm.
  • 156-006 11:20 AM · 16 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 3:03 pm.
  • 231-004 11:20 AM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 12:05 pm.
  • 231-006 11:20 AM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John V. Brennan, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 12:05 pm.
  • 231-007 11:20 AM · 15 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 12:05 pm.
  • 231-008 11:20 AM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and John V. Brennan met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 12:05 pm.
  • 231-018 11:20 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 11:20 am and 12:05 pm.

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Conversation 231-005, November 27, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/231-005 (accessed October 10, 2026).