President Nixon met with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, to attend to administrative matters regarding sensitive correspondence. The primary focus of the discussion concerned the proper sealing of a letter addressed to Chinese Premier Chou En-lai. No further substantive policy developments were recorded beyond this clerical task.
On June 28, 1972, 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 3:35 pm and 3:54 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 346-025 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 346-25
Date: June 28, 1972
Time: Unknown between 3:35 and 3:54 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.
Sealing of letter to Chou En-lai
(rev. Jan-02)No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.