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Nixon & Eisenhower on Career advancement and Professional development

Thursday, March 15, 1973 · 4:35 PM–4:42 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 4 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Eisenhower, Julie NixonConversation410-026 on Tape 410StartThursday, March 15, 1973 at 4:35 PMEndThursday, March 15, 1973 at 4:42 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 410-026 ↗

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President Nixon and his daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, engage in an informal discussion concerning the career advancement and professional aspirations of a mutual acquaintance named Taylor. They analyze Taylor's strategic career moves, specifically his preference for gaining broad experience in the field over accepting a high-level position in Washington. The conversation concludes with brief, casual remarks regarding leisure activities and future social plans.

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Hello?
Hello?
Julie?
Well, how's the weather?
What do you think?
What's your view as to whether maybe I should come down?
I've got a whole year's note on Taylor and something.
Some of the information, the information's out there.
He wanted to make them ahead of him.
But he was too low ranked, and he didn't want to jump together with people until he wanted to do it.
So he sure, his ambition was to be the head of the city, the service of the city.
But, yeah.
The other story on paper, though, is not this.
I know.
uh...
Wow.
His move, basically, to this other position gives him a much better chance to get that job than in this day and age.
You see, this is the particular services and countervailing and border control and a lot of other things.
And the man who goes to the top has to have a much broader experience than he was in the presidential presidency.
That was his choice.
We wanted him to be a doctor, but he had not been in the field in recent years, and he felt the analogs would be pretty cool about this, and he said he would prefer
and go up, and these guys were all apparently buried.
He was not asking him to do the job.
In fact, he urged not to take the job here in Washington.
He thought that by getting the speed of his circumstances and getting the preparation he wanted, and his records would go up, so that's the way it worked.
They really checked into it, we will, but we're both, Taylor is going to,
We're all for it.
We'll be here four years.
I'll have a chance to do a motion.
We've had about a year.
Great.
It's too dark and cold.
It's a lot of work to do here.
A lot of people love doing this.
A lot of people love doing this.
Well, the things like the little ones.
Like racing.
Racing is like playing with flowers.
Flowers going after you.
It's great.
We'll do it again someday.
We can go to the hospital.

NARA Description

On March 15, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:35 pm and 4:42 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 410-026 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 410-26

Date: March 15, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:35 pm and 4:42 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

[See Conversation No. 43-95]
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Cite this conversation

Conversation 410-026, March 15, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/410-026 (accessed October 1, 2026).