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Nixon & Woods on Sequoia and White House logistics

Thursday, June 14, 1973 · 6:08 PM–6:09 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 2 min

ParticipantsWoods, Rose Mary; Nixon, Richard M. (President)Conversation446-012 on Tape 446StartThursday, June 14, 1973 at 6:08 PMEndThursday, June 14, 1973 at 6:09 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 446-012 ↗

President Nixon consulted with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, to coordinate her attendance on a brief excursion aboard the presidential yacht, the Sequoia. After confirming Woods' current availability, Nixon instructed her to meet him at the South Grounds within twenty minutes to facilitate transportation together. The brief exchange focused primarily on scheduling logistics and travel arrangements for the outing.

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Yeah.
Yeah.
Rosa, are you, uh, where are you at the present time?
Oh.
How long will you be done doing that?
Oh, I see.
Well,
I was going to take a, I was just going to take a little ride on Sequoia.
Do you think you could do it?
Let me just pick the time.
Do you think you could be backed by, I don't know, so that I can hold everybody.
Are you free to go out?
Or are you going out?
You're going out?
Yeah.
Take you 20 minutes, huh?
20 minutes to finish or to be back here.
Yeah.
All right, we'll wait for you.
Yeah.
Yeah, so 20 minutes, just come to the south ground.
Or are you at a place where it would be easier to go directly there?
No, it's better to come with us because of the traffic.
All right.
Thank you.

On June 14, 1973, Rose Mary Woods and President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 6:08 pm to 6:09 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 446-012 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 446-12

Date: June 14, 1973
Time: 6:08 pm - 6:09 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
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                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                                           Conversation No. 446-12 (cont’d)

Rose Mary Woods talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 40-120]
  • 446-007 5:58 PM · 4 min — 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 5:58 pm and 6:03 pm.
  • 040-118 6:03 PM · 19 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at 6:03 pm.
  • 040-119 6:03 PM · 43 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan) Nixon talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:03 pm and 6:08 pm.
  • 446-009 6:03 PM · 53 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan) Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 6:03 pm to 6:04 pm.
  • 446-010 6:04 PM · 37 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 6:04 pm and 6:08 pm.
  • 446-011 6:04 PM · 25 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 6:04 pm and 6:08 pm.
  • 040-120 6:08 PM · 2 min — Rose Mary Woods and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone from 6:08 pm to 6:09 pm.
  • 941-007 6:14 PM · 24 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Stephen B. Bull, Willam H. Henkel, Jr., John V. Brennan, Maj. Gen. John C. Bennett, Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft, Henry A. Kissinger, David N. Parker, Garry M. Jenkins, William G. Hyland, Helmut ("Hal") Sonnenfeldt, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 6:14 pm to 6:38 pm.

Conversation 446-012, June 14, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/446-012 (accessed October 9, 2026).