Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 301 › Conversation 301-021

Nixon & Woods on Electoral politics and White House social events

Wednesday, November 3, 1971 · 2:45 PM–3:00 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 8 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose MaryConversation301-021 on Tape 301 (tape position 04:21:46–04:29:36)StartWednesday, November 3, 1971 at 2:45 PMEndWednesday, November 3, 1971 at 3:00 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 301-021 ↗

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President Nixon and his secretary, Rose Mary Woods, met to discuss administrative scheduling, including managing telephone calls to supporters and planning White House social functions. They reviewed recent electoral trends, specifically the importance of ethnic voting blocs and the political implications of outreach to Black voters. The conversation concluded with discussions regarding future invitations for high-profile political figures and State Dinner logistics, including the potential inclusion of Democratic Mayor Frank Rizzo.

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Coach, do you have any particular problems today?
No.
I did call Annenberg, so he's pleased to share.
Yeah, he needs a lounge over there, I'm sure.
It'll be difficult, I'm sure.
I heard there's a way that we could maybe get a note off to a few of them.
I don't think we'll try to do it, though.
You see, and as far as calls are concerned, if I started to call Harrison, and I've got Roy Crocker, and I've got, I don't know, Roy Day.
Yeah.
They did and ignored what everybody did and they all felt they did.
You're absolutely right.
We mustn't... You'd get hurt too many feelings.
That's right.
That's right.
You're absolutely right.
Except for the fact that we may... Yeah.
Fine, fine, why don't you offer that?
Yeah, right, right, fine, fine, great, great.
That is fine, that's fine.
Yeah, yeah.
You're out.
Fine, let's just offer it in any event, and we may not, I think we may stop.
We're going to stop.
Well, much better, but if we do, that doesn't end the problem.
We have her go to a nice, one of those careful places for the rest of the while.
I think you're right.
That's right.
That's right.
You know, I was looking at these results and thinking in terms of Cleveland and Rizzo and particularly,
It makes us realize how important that Polish, Irish, basically what happened here is the blacks, what they call the raw acts, worked for that kind of candidate.
And it worked for our guys as well.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
They had him, they had him in Teddy's name, of course.
And frankly, it's a great thing that he did.
It does remind me, though, that when you're making up our list for the future, I know we're doing something that's anyway good for us.
You can lean hard on those.
You can't have such important things like the church and dinner and everything else.
You can't have a whole, you can't have more than four or five or so, but we do do the blacks, you know, and I get as many blacks as we ever can ever be.
That's what I mean, that's everything.
So I must say, I mean, well, I think we should do the blacks for every reason.
That's just the right thing to do.
There are no votes.
Yeah.
It was good at this dinner, though, for the man.
I know that he was very good.
We had several members of the jury, sir.
Yeah.
And we're going to mix up some of that.
That's a very good idea that you
They, they really, they really have had the recognition, haven't they?
And, uh...
Unhappy hell.
I really think that that's the situation.
I still couldn't agree more.
I think we...
We tend to overdo this government people anyway.
And you know, it does mean a lot to members.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, that's the way you lean, will you?
Fine, fine.
And, uh, we'll, uh, we could, one way or another, we could do, like, Rizzo may have some people who would, you know, have him down with us.
I don't know.
I don't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't have it until next year.
That's what I meant.
I, we'll address him.
And then we have a right to have a mayor, you know, and, uh, yeah.
And should have.
Because, because he's a mayor, we have Democrats down there.
And when you want a Democrat, put him on rather than one that's against us.
Uh, one other thing, because he's been doing a lot of things for us, I think it would be helpful to have, uh, Goldwater again, to do something.
I know he's been through, but the medicule might be all right for him.
He's very interested in that.
I don't know.
He goes to the bathroom a lot, you know, some of these things.
That's good.
That's good.
Check it out.
I was just saying to Henry, uh, some of this data,
and realize that it was two years from November 3rd to 8th.
Now that's quite a day.
I know we're done.
Just like yesterday.
What's going on there.
But Paul, I...
I'm pretty sure he's going to come back.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
All right, Mom.

NARA Description

On November 3, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:45 pm and 3:00 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 301-021 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 301-21

Date: November 3, 1971
Time: Unknown between 2:45 pm and 3:00 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

     The President's call to Walter Annenberg

     Possible notes from the President

     The President's schedule
          -Possible telephone calls
          -Harrison McCall
          -Roy P. Crocker
          -Roy Day
          -Frank [Surname unknown]

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 09/23/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[301-021-w001]
[Duration: 28s]

     The President’s schedule
          -Unknown woman [Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon] [?]
               -Schedule
               -US Air Force
                      -Rest

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     1971 election
          -Cleveland
          -Frank L. Rizzo
          -Ethnic vote
               -Social issues
                     -Polish, Italians, Irish, Blacks
          -Joseph L. Alioto

     White House social affairs
          -Invitations
                -Ethnic groups
                      -Patrick J. Buchanan
                      -Blacks
                            -Votes

     State Dinners
           -William McMahon
           -Attendees
                -Undersecretaries
           -Rizzo
                -Timing
                -Democrats
           -Barry M. Goldwater
                -Emilio Garrastazu Medici

     The President's November 3, 1969 speech
          -The President's previous conversation with Henry A. Kissinger

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 09/23/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[301-021-w002]
[Duration: 7s]

     Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule

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     Woods's schedule
         -Dinner
               -The President’s schedule

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 301-021, November 3, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/301-021 (accessed September 30, 2026).