Conversation 293-033

TapeTape 293StartWednesday, November 17, 1971 at 2:41 PMEndWednesday, November 17, 1971 at 3:10 PMTape start time02:12:40Tape end time02:35:33ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Woods, Rose Mary;  Sanchez, ManoloRecording deviceOld Executive Office Building

On November 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:41 pm to 3:10 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 293-033 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 293-33

Date: November 22, 1971
Time: 2:41 pm - 3:10 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

     Unknown persons' schedules

     Dictabelt
          -Camp David
          -File

     The President's schedule
          -California
                -Rose Mary Woods

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     Woods's meeting with Mr. [Forename unknown] Andrews

    Jeane L. Dixon's letter
         -The President's forthcoming trips to the People's Republic of China [PRC] and the
               Soviet Union
               -Advance teams

    Adele (Langston) Rogers St. John's letter
         -Filmways
              -Honorary Commission

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[Duration: 12s ]

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    Letter from Duke University
          -Anniversary of organization

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[Duration: 12s ]

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    White House Christmas party
         -Pearl M. Bailey

          -Charles E. (“Pat”) Boone
          -Harry L. (“Bing”) Crosby

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Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:41 pm

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 3:10 pm

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     White House Christmas party
          -Woods's conversation with Paul Garvey
              -The President and Hungarian refugees

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     Forthcoming White House dinner
          -Thirteen year old entertainer
                -Parents

Woods's conversation with Charles S. Rhyne
    -The President's Law School application to Duke University

Letter to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
      -Cancer event
            -Appreciation

Letter from Tom Kropp [Krock?]
      -The President's portrait
           -John B. Connally
      -The President's schedule
           -Connally

Picture for an unknown person
      -Thelma C. (“Pat’) Nixon
      -Inscription

James Rowe [?]
     -Dwight D. Eisenhower Foundation
          -Possible donation of materials
     -Artworks

Spiro T. Agnew
     -Performance in office
           -Eisenhower
     -Statements in Chicago
           -Paul N. McCloskey
                 -Woods's conversation with Joseph Woods

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     Telegrams
          -Support for the President
          -Winfield Dunn

Woods left at 3:10 pm.

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Well, by the p.m., Jim, you know, let's let, yeah, let his run today, and let him run tomorrow.
Let our people run tomorrow.
And, uh,
I don't know.
Yeah.
Well, that's a pretty good visual.
But that's, you see, good for recording now.
I'm just waiting on that guy to be ready for me.
I was going to ask you one thing.
That envelope is one of the tapes that you want to save, isn't it?
The tapes came back from Captain David.
Is that the first one?
They must have taken all of them.
Yeah, when you leave one on the machine, they take it off.
All right, fine.
That's just .
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Then I should plan for an online meeting.
Does anybody know what to do?
I don't know.
We are, we're not saying we're not, we're not.
I just wanted to tell you, I did see Mr. Andrews doing this.
I guess I did not count how many blocks he got in the basement.
I had some time to make sure, you know, that I counted the doors.
You know, if I didn't mind sitting out there and blocking the doors.
Oh, I don't think so.
Oh, I don't think so.
the right side, the left side, and the right side.
That's what we got our share.
And Jean Dixon wrote another letter to me today.
This one, she wants you to be terribly careful every time she makes all these vibrations.
She did this.
She gets the feeling that a man with a cloth, having a great fashion, is already worn to, or is not yet, to be reeled.
and she was saying to me, extremely, extremely careful.
She doesn't, you know, she's factioned in China itself.
Then she says, too, please do not send to Moscow to prepare for your trip there any of the same things you sent to China.
As I get it, it would be much better to send one of your trusted paid rather than a different lab or foreign policy advisor because this mission in Moscow is a great commitment to the country than to the United States.
Not to mention the barriers going down beyond the peace and security of our country and peace in the whole world.
We are going to send a mission to Moscow in order to do this.
We have relations with them.
Well, I didn't... That's a good point.
And did you adjust to him or something?
I had a Roger St. John program.
She's like, that Richard, you know, remembered I want to be honorary commissioned or something.
He coached the film later.
Of course, he did tell her he was a great, you know, top of the thread negotiator.
He wasn't getting away with it.
Oh, sure.
We could do that for a while.
We could do that for a while later.
Sure you did, sure you did.
Anyway, here's a letter from Duke.
They're celebrating the 25th anniversary.
They're hoping to get a goal of a million and a half million people to double what they did before.
This doesn't seem to make any sense.
You're not going to have a party, as I understand it now.
They were asking, they have Pearl Bailey and the Pat Boone family.
They were asking what your favorite Christmas song was.
Well, they're going to have parties, but we're not the ones that will be present.
They could still say they were singing a song in favor of your Christmas.
Sure.
Do you have a special favorite?
The Pat Boone family's favorite Christmas song.
They were, first they were trying to get Christy to do that.
That could only be if he were here to get, because he can't do a program on Sunday on that horse.
That's really Christy's dog.
Oh, it is Christy.
Let's see, do you have one that you used to like as an old phone?
I think I heard Paul Darby telling me about how beautiful it was when he played Silent Night for those little Hungarian refugees.
Now, you know that little 13-year-old or whatever it is that, you know, just kind of stomps?
It's going to play one number the night of your dinner at the 7th.
Now, I did not put the stones on the dinner.
I don't think they have to be here.
I don't think so.
Well, they've been here, and I don't really think you need to because he's hurt the girl, and you're doing him a better favor.
Where did the mother come in for the entertainment?
Because the girl's too young to be a big fan.
She accepted all the entertainers, right?
No, no.
She had a father or something.
She had no entertainer later.
I don't know.
This looks like one of the only ones.
What if she doesn't play it?
She gets to be there.
That's a close call.
All right.
I just want to cover it.
Is that okay?
You've got to be careful not to make any more accomplishments.
I know, it's so hard.
Charlie Ryan says that at a law school, he didn't do it, but Leon Ryan distributed copies to each of the fellows of their law school application.
And he thought you might like to see your answers.
Ms. Andrews?
And there's another nice letter of it.
It was on two leaves.
That's from that cancer dinner, too.
I'll see you there.
I'll give the letter back to Tom Cross.
Well, I don't know what to do about it.
I don't know either.
We can't do anything about it.
This is about his client.
He had sent this once before.
I don't know if you remember that.
He says he works completely from pictures.
Is that a con?
Yeah, this is a con.
We see all the different stages of his life.
He sent this to us a couple of years ago.
But he would like to...
We ought to try it.
very very long did you want that to be one of the two of you and then just say to him with this which is by his friend Richard Dixon or did you want Pat doesn't have to sign that one they had gotten it yeah to uh
Gradual appreciation for his friendship and experience.
I thank you for that.
Radiation and admiration.
Appreciation and admiration for his standing leadership.
Alan James Lowe has even the original notes that are in the project.
He speaks in Cleveland.
He really should be able to be having that foundation.
Foundation.
Or a lawyer, I don't know.
Anything to see what he can do.
I mean, I gave him to him.
My brother and I, I was in the 7th or 8th grade.
I don't know what to do, you know.
That's what got my girls.
But then when that wire came about, the first part of it all, I don't know how great it was or something, but the rest of it, without that first step, it kind of terribly hurt me.
I'd like to expect to never really get any older then.
He also had some other friends that had fun surrounding him.
Oh, there were a lot of them.
And they were working very hard to get something out of him.
They were just trying to get his poor brains out of him, you know, whatever.
So he'd never been in politics before.
It wasn't the kind that he'd go to.
I'd take him on agonies.
Now, of course, you know, this is an agonist.
This is an agonist.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know what it was, some aside or something.
Somebody, I haven't talked to him, somebody else had not done anything at all.
I don't know if there was, no, it was since the dinner, I think.
It was the evening, I think.
Well, I just thought, you know, I was upstairs and saw that in the news that they were going to reach out.
And I just thought it would be good to have those wires.
I didn't have time to go through and pull anything out.
I just thought it would be good.
I just thought it would be good to have those wires.
I just thought it would be good to have those wires.
Or I've got to be, you know, or I've got to be, you know, to be taken.
Okay.
It's not in that sense you're talking about, you know, like, and, and, and.
It's like, it's so easy.