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Nixon & Woods on Arnold Toynbee and World leaders

Friday, October 6, 1972 · 2:06 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 1 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose MaryConversation354-021 on Tape 354StartFriday, October 6, 1972 at 2:06 PMEndFriday, October 6, 1972 at 2:06 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 354-021 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon and his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, discuss the retrieval and processing of specific reading materials regarding world leaders, including an essay by Arnold Toynbee. The conversation centers on logistical difficulties in obtaining a requested excerpt from a document. The exchange concludes without a clear resolution regarding the missing materials.

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I had asked for an excerpt from 20B.
And I, uh, it's, uh, it's between the essay and the title of the book.
I didn't know.
Would you actually return it to the bigot office?
That's what I was going to say.
What I paid on it.
I didn't pay that return.
I didn't, it didn't work.
It didn't come right.
Where's the bail on it?
I don't know.
Uh, I don't know.
I don't know.
Okay?

NARA Description

On October 6, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 2:06 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 354-021 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 354-21

Date: October 6, 1972
Time: 2:06 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Rose Mary Woods.

        World leaders
           -Reading file
                -Arnold Toynbee
                    -Winston S. Churchill, Gen. Charles A.J.M. De Gaulle
                    -Essay

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 354-021, October 6, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/354-021 (accessed October 1, 2026).