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Nixon & Woods on White House administration

Friday, July 2, 1971 · 5:24 PM–5:25 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 27 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose MaryConversation260-015 on Tape 260 (tape position 01:56:49–01:57:31)StartFriday, July 2, 1971 at 5:24 PMEndFriday, July 2, 1971 at 5:25 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 260-015 ↗

AI Summary

President Richard M. Nixon met briefly with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, in the Old Executive Office Building. The extremely short duration of this interaction suggests it served as a perfunctory exchange or a transition between formal appointments. No substantive policy discussions or specific administrative actions were recorded during this brief encounter.

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I am sending you over on a very rough draft of this march tomorrow night.
I'd like to run a lot of confidence in your work with anchors and what you're working on.
And you recall the speech I made at the J.C.'s when I finished with an anecdote about John Brown.
Yeah.
If you would pick up that anecdote and just put it on the end.
And on the end of the speech.
They're not okay if you don't do it.

NARA Description

On July 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:24 pm to 5:25 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 260-015 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 260-15

Date: July 2, 1971
Time: 5:24 pm - 5:25 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

[See Conversation No. 6-99]

Also recorded on July 2, 1971

  • 006-099 5:24 PM · 30 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 5:24 pm to 5:25 pm.
  • 006-100 5:25 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 5:25 pm.
  • 260-016 5:25 PM · 26 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 5:25 pm.
  • 260-017 5:25 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 5:25 pm.
  • 006-101 5:26 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John K. Andrews, Jr. talked on the telephone from 5:26 pm to 5:33 pm.
  • 260-018 5:26 PM · 8 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John K. Andrews, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:26 pm to 5:33 pm.
  • 006-102 5:33 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:33 pm and 5:39 pm.
  • 260-020 5:33 PM · 19 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:33 pm and 5:39 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 260-015, July 2, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/260-015 (accessed October 5, 2026).