Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 431 › Conversation 431-003
Nixon & Cox on Camp David and Family life
Thursday, April 26, 1973 · 1:15 PM–1:17 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 2 min
AI Summary
President Nixon and his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, coordinate family travel plans to Camp David while acknowledging the heightened public scrutiny surrounding their movements. The President weighs the optics of private family trips, ultimately deciding that a collective family excursion is preferable to smaller, isolated visits. He clarifies his own scheduling constraints, noting that his official obligations prevent him from arriving until Saturday noon.
- Camp David
- Family life
- Public image
- Presidential scheduling
- White House optics
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NARA Description
On April 26, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:15 pm to 1:17 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 431-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 431-003
Date: April 26, 1973
Time: 1:15 pm and 1:17 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
The President talked with Tricia Nixon Cox.
[See Conversation No. 045-008]Also recorded on April 26, 1973
- 045-005 12:23 PM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Richard G. Kleindienst talked on the telephone from 12:23 pm to 12:32 pm.
- 905-020 12:32 PM · 1 min — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 12:32 pm on April 26, 1973 and 7:32 am on April 27, 1973.
- 045-006 12:34 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:34 pm and 1:13 pm.
- 431-001 12:34 PM · 38 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:34 pm and 1:13 pm.
- 045-007 1:13 PM · 22 sec — White House operator and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at 1:13 pm.
- 431-002 1:13 PM · 20 sec — White House operator and President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 1:13 pm.
- 045-008 1:15 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 1:15 pm to 1:17 pm.
- 431-004 1:17 PM · 41 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 1:17 pm and 3:00 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 431-003, April 26, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/431-003 (accessed October 5, 2026).