Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 424 › Conversation 424-020
Nixon & Woods on Presidential speech and Document formatting
Thursday, March 29, 1973 · 9:45 PM–9:55 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 1 min
AI Summary
President Nixon and his personal secretary Rose Mary Woods met briefly to discuss technical specifications for a typescript of an upcoming presidential speech, specifically regarding document spacing. The conversation also included informal remarks about the weather and climate experienced by Woods during her recent trip to California. No major policy decisions were made during this brief administrative check-in.
- Rose Mary Woods
- Presidential speech
- Document formatting
- California trip
- White House administration
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NARA Description
On March 29, 1973, 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 9:45 pm and 9:55 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 424-020 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 424-20
Date: March 29, 1973
Time: Unknown between 9:45 am and 9:55 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
President's speech
-Typescript
-Spacing
-21-
NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 424-32 (cont’d)
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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift during
chronological review 2007-2013]
Woods’s trip to California
-Weather
-Temperature
-Ocean air
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Woods left at 9:55 am.Also recorded on March 30, 1973
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- 044-088 9:49 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:49 pm and 9:50 pm.
- 044-089 9:51 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 9:51 pm.
- 044-090 9:51 PM · 15 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone at 9:51 pm.
- 424-021 9:55 PM · 18 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:55 pm and 10:43 pm.
- 424-022 9:55 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:55 pm and 10:43 pm.
- 424-023 9:55 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:55 pm and 10:43 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 424-020, March 30, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/424-020 (accessed October 1, 2026).