Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 426 › Conversation 426-009
Nixon & Woods on Clerical tasks and Administrative procedures
Thursday, March 29, 1973 · 5:10 PM–5:11 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 45 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon met with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, for a brief administrative session in the Executive Office Building. The discussion focused on specific clerical tasks, including the provision of typing instructions and guidance regarding the formatting of documents through underlining. The meeting concluded rapidly after these procedural directives were addressed.
- Clerical tasks
- Administrative procedures
- Rose Mary Woods
- Document formatting
- Office management
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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 from 5:10 pm to 5:11 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 426-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 426-9
Date: March 29, 1973
Time: 5:10 pm - 5:11 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
Speech script
-Typing instructions
-Underlining
Woods left at 5:11 pm.Also recorded on March 29, 1973
- 044-073 4:53 PM · 18 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 4:53 pm.
- 044-074 4:53 PM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:53 pm and 5:11 pm.
- 426-008 4:55 PM · 11 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, White House operator, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:55 pm to 5:10 pm.
- 044-075 5:11 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and George P. Shultz talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:11 pm and 5:13 pm.
- 044-076 5:11 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:11 pm and 5:13 pm.
- 426-010 5:11 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and George P. Shultz met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:11 pm to 5:13 pm.
- 426-011 5:13 PM · 50 sec — 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 5:13 pm and 5:32 pm.
- 426-012 5:13 PM · 8 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 5:13 pm and 5:32 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 426-009, March 29, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/426-009 (accessed October 1, 2026).