Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 274 › Conversation 274-010

Nixon & Woods on Public relations and Presidential travel

Monday, August 16, 1971 · 2:54 PM–2:58 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 3 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose MaryConversation274-010 on Tape 274 (tape position 00:14:37–00:17:09)StartMonday, August 16, 1971 at 2:54 PMEndMonday, August 16, 1971 at 2:58 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 274-010 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon and his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, discuss the logistical challenges and optics of including Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R.F. Cox in the President's upcoming travel plans. The pair also briefly evaluates the public reception of the President's recent television address delivered the previous evening, noting uncertainty regarding initial feedback and the broadcast's reach. Ultimately, Nixon suggests skipping the inclusion of his daughter in the trip to avoid potential social awkwardness or complications.

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NARA Description

On August 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:54 pm to 2:58 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 274-010 of the White House Tapes.

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Conversation No. 274-10

Date: August 16, 1971
Time: 2:54 pm - 2:58 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

     Call from Tricia Nixon Cox

     President’s forthcoming trip
          -Attendance of women
                -Tricia Nixon Cox
                -Edward R.F. Cox

     President’s address to the Nation, August 15, 1971
          -Television broadcast
                -Reaction
                      -Unknown person

     Stock market

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Hey, I'll be out for about a half hour.
Yep.
Hi, Rose.
Uh, what was your shit's called?
Did you find out whether or not women come to that?
Maybe we'll just skip it.
Skip it.
I think we'll skip it.
Okay.
Don't ever come over again.
Well, to find out what I think of as any awkwardness, I would not have her go, you see, because we can't take both in a hurry, and I can't do that.
And so we thought that we could have her come over after the plan, and say hello, and she would tell us how to do that, and it would be swell.
Well, basically, though, we're not sure how he'd have come that soon.
But the way he left it last night, maybe he could have come to the end of the walk.
The end of the walk.
You see, if he gets, if he waits for the end of the walk, he's going to be, you know, a little cocky, if I ever heard of him.
Yeah.
Or actually, he'll find out.
He'll wait.
He'll wait.
He'll wait.
Yeah, they must feel good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I didn't call him.
I didn't know a lot of people.
Something I probably didn't even know was on.
Yeah.
Okay.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 274-010, August 16, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/274-010 (accessed November 2, 2026).