Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 313 › Conversation 313-007

Nixon & Eisenhower on Environmental policy and Public relations

Monday, January 10, 1972 · 2:36 PM–2:39 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 2 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Eisenhower, Julie NixonConversation313-007 on Tape 313 (tape position 00:05:02–00:06:57)StartMonday, January 10, 1972 at 2:36 PMEndMonday, January 10, 1972 at 2:39 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 313-007 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417185543 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon and his daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, discuss her recent travel and a successful public relations event at a cypress plant. The President praises the positive media coverage generated by her tour and suggests that increasing her and First Lady Pat Nixon's involvement in environmental advocacy could serve as a beneficial political strategy. The brief conversation concludes with the President encouraging further efforts to highlight the administration's interest in environmental issues.

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NARA Description

On January 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:36 pm to 2:39 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 313-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 313-7

Date: January 10, 1972
Time: 2:36 pm - 2:39 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 09/18/2019.
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[See Conversation No. 018-035-w001]

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 09/18/2019.
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[Duration: 11s]

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Hello?
Hello?
Well, you got back all right, huh?
Good, that's great.
Well, there was a lot of fun and everything just worked out fine.
Mommy was in such great spirit.
She looked good, too, didn't she?
And, uh...
I thought so, too.
I thought the whole thing, the trick was very, very good.
What I'm going to tell you is that I was just checking this morning and it was the last weekend.
Your tour of the cypress plant got a very good flood.
It was very helpful, everybody thought, on that environment thing.
And I was thinking, as far as this went, that if you could do some more of that sort of thing, maybe we could get into it, maybe mommy ought to do something.
That's the one way we could show great interest in the environment.
I'll see you the next time.
We'll see.
It'll get some good ones.
I'm glad you did and I'll talk to you about it.
Yeah.
I'm glad to hear that.
Yeah.
Well, that's great.
We do appreciate it.
I can't think.
Good.
All right.
Bye.

Also recorded on January 10, 1972

  • 018-035 2:36 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone from 2:36 pm to 2:39 pm.
  • 018-106 2:39 PM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:39 pm and 2:44 pm.
  • 313-008 2:39 PM · 5 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 2:39 pm and 2:44 pm.
  • 018-036 2:44 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John B. Connally talked on the telephone from 2:44 pm to 2:51 pm.
  • 313-009 2:44 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John B. Connally met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:44 pm to 2:51 pm.
  • 018-037 2:51 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:51 pm and 2:54 pm.
  • 313-010 2:51 PM · 35 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:51 pm and 2:54 pm.
  • 313-011 2:51 PM · 7 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 2:51 pm and 2:54 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 313-007, January 10, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417185543). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/313-007 (accessed November 13, 2026).