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Conversation 313-017

TapeTape 313StartMonday, January 10, 1972 at 3:15 PMEndMonday, January 10, 1972 at 3:25 PMTape start time00:18:53Tape end time00:27:02ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Woods, Rose MaryRecording deviceOld Executive Office Building
AI Summary

President Nixon and his secretary, Rose Mary Woods, met to discuss administrative matters, personal gifts, and logistics regarding the President's recent birthday. The conversation covered the review of correspondence and medical reports, specifically an article concerning the drug Dilantin and John Connally's health. Additionally, they coordinated upcoming travel arrangements and scheduling for First Lady Pat Nixon and family members.

Rose Mary WoodsPresidential BirthdayJohn ConnallyDilantinAdministrative LogisticsScheduling
AudioNARA Description

On January 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:15 pm to 3:25 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 313-017 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 313-17

Date: January 10, 1972
Time: 3:15 pm - 3:25 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 09/18/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[313-017-w001]
[Duration: 58s]

      Odes for the President's birthday
             -The President's discovery
                     -Briefcase
             -Mary A. Fenton
             -The President’s opinion
             -Possible publication
             -Authors of previous odes
                     -[Unintelligible names]
             -Mary A. Fenton

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     [Mary A. Fenton]
          -Tour of second floor

     Jack J. Dreyfus, Jr.
           -Article on drug Dilantin [Phenytoin]
                 -Reading by the President
           -Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.
                 -Previous dealings
                 -Dreyfus's claims
            -Letter from the President
                  -[Food and Drug Administration]
                       -Charles C. Edwards

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 09/18/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[313-017-w002]
[Duration: 53s]

      The President's birthday
             -Acknowledgement of gift
                     -Rose Mary Woods
                     -Tricia Nixon Cox
                             -Pearl studs [?]
                     -Jack Drown and Helene (Colesie) Drown
                             -Telephone call
                     -Robert K. Gray
                     -Richard E. (“Dick”) Berlin
                             -Gold silverware

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     Memorandum

     Tape
            -Contents
            -Letter
            -Briefcase

     John B. Connally
          -Health
          -Dr. W. Kenneth Riland
               -Schedule
                     -Woods's forthcoming conversation with Janet [Surname unknown]
          -Health
               -Activities
               -Weather

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 09/18/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
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[313-017-w004]
[Duration: 2m 13s]
       Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
             -Conversation with Rose Mary Woods
                    -Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
             -Trip

              -Azores trip
              -Commercial airlines
              -Previous flights
              -Frequency of travel
              -Return to residence
                      -Mary A. Fenton
              -Tricia Nixon Cox's schedule
              -Meeting with Mary A. Fenton and Rose Mary Woods
                      -Time
                      -Birthday odes

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Woods left at 3:25 pm.
Transcript (AI-Generated)

This transcript was generated automatically by AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite this transcript as authoritative. Consult the Finding Aid above for verified information.

Oh, I thought you should know.
I found the oats.
Oh, good.
They had put them in the briefcase, and, uh, you see, I didn't have them.
Oh, that's what I thought.
They are so nice, and I would have worked on them a bit better than they are.
Uh-huh.
I've got an idea on that burger.
I don't know what it is.
So you're in correspondence now, because they could give her a great jump or something.
Yeah, they're very good.
True, you're doing so much.
I love stories about somebody who writes.
Yeah, she's written his last one, but we've had an awful lot of people over the years have written them.
Lloyd did, and Bob did, and we all have done so much.
He's done most of the last.
She'd never been upstairs.
And I wanted to give you something for, you know, practice and follow up on.
You know,
They've already gone as far as they can go.
See, he expects a miracle.
He just wants to be able to say people must taste it.
We can't tell them people must taste it.
But I know Ken Cole has worked with them very hard for a long time.
They've done a good job.
Well, I do tell them that I read the article on CBS.
That's been a very impressive thing.
They want the food drug guy.
Apparently, he's looking at the defense.
I just need to respond to it now.
Yeah, but see, we've had one of them that we were supposed to have read a couple of years ago.
But I haven't read it, so I don't have an issue knowing that I read it.
I don't think I...
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I think they knew what that was.
I'll double check that one.
Those are what... All the others have been...
He got that.
He got that one.
As long as we know what it is, they can say.
I think we've got them all in office.
They gave you that gold and silver one.
That's right.
And here's the one with the memorandum.
There wasn't anything on that one tape from your den out there.
Maybe you could just put a new one on.
So it's faded or anything.
There's nothing on it.
We tried it on two or three machines.
So when you got up, you went back up and got the other day one of these?
Oh.
I think what you had done was take something off and then put it on.
And that had not saved you.
You're right.
And the lead is probably over there.
You got that one?
Yes.
I killed my wife.
You took out your briefcase, you said.
I gave you something else, I'm not sure.
Yes.
John caught my head up.
I said, well, we're going to go back.
And I'm glad when it comes down, I'm not going to do that.
I'll talk to Jim so that they know where I'm coming from.
I guess he's coming with me.
I'll talk to him.
I'll talk to him.
I'll talk to him.
Well, then, too, the weather was cool, and you can start to imagine, too, sort of, if he got overheated in about St. Gallen, you know, up in that desert, the sun goes down, it gets cold immediately.
And maybe he had that on top of tension, and that really was a big problem.
It's a funny job, you've got to have that thought through, and it's very, very good.
Sure, it was.
It looked like it.
It sure did.
I think this is because there have been so many trips, so much travel.
I see 8 doors and you've had quite a few time changes.
But I think it really is because you've done more switching.
I don't know how those things work.
I don't know.
I was out of office and there was commercials going on all the way through.
Well, it's part of it you didn't have the responsibility of children.
You're right.
You know, it makes a big difference.
You're right.
Because a lot of people travel constantly, but they don't have those.
They don't have any problems all the time to go with them.
I think that's what's part of it.
I don't know.
That's true.
It's very good.
Mary can come along.
I'll be over there at six.
I'll find out.
I'll find out.
Let me know if Mary can be here.
No, no, no.
I'll just be there at six o'clock.
I just want to be sure that we can reveal this to her.
You can come at six if she can't visit me.
I'll bring the O.G.
with me if I agree to get you seated.
Thank you very much.
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