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Conversation 466-018

TapeTape 466StartThursday, March 11, 1971 at 6:25 PMEndThursday, March 11, 1971 at 6:35 PMTape start time05:47:04Tape end time05:52:23ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Butterfield, Alexander P.;  Woods, Rose MaryRecording deviceOval Office
AI Summary

President Nixon met with Alexander Butterfield and Rose Mary Woods to finalize logistical arrangements for the upcoming visit of Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch and his wife. The participants coordinated the protocol for arrival ceremonies, receiving lines, and social events in the Yellow Oval Room. Additionally, Nixon discussed the agenda for an upcoming Cabinet meeting focused on foreign trip reports and revenue sharing, and reviewed scheduling details for a dinner hosted by Vice President Agnew.

Jack LynchWhite House protocolState visit logisticsCabinet meetingRevenue sharingSpiro Agnew
AudioNARA Description

On March 11, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 6:25 pm and 6:35 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 466-018 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 466-18

Date: March 11, 1971
Time: Unknown between 6:25 pm and 6:35 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield

     President’s schedule
          -John M. (“Jack”) Lynch visit
                -Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon’s plans
                -Forthcoming Head of State visit
                      -Arrival ceremony
                      -Logistics
                -Mrs. Nixon’s plans
                -Questions
                -Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart
                -Ambassadors in Yellow Oval Room

Rose Mary Woods entered at an unknown time after 6:25 pm

     Tapes

Woods left at an unknown time before 6:35 pm

     President’s schedule
          -Head of State dinner for Lynch
                -Yellow Oval Room
                -Ambassadors
                -Vice President Spiro T. and Elinor I. (Judefind) Agnew
                -Guests in East Room
                -Receiving line
                      -President and Mrs. Nixon, Prime Minister and Mairin (O’Connor) Lynch,
                            Tricia Nixon and Edward R. F. Cox, Howard E., Jr. and Anne C. B.
                            (Finch) Cox
          -A March 16, 1971 Cabinet meeting
                -Reports on trips abroad
                -George W. Romney on revenue sharing
                      -John D. Ehrlichman

     Forthcoming dinner with the Vice President
          -Cabinet officers
          -Robert J. Dole
          -Blair House
          -Date
                -Business leaders’ dinner
                     -Maurice H. Stans

Butterfield left at an unknown time before 6:35 pm
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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If you want to go the way Mrs. Nixon has it planned, you're going to have to run a little bit as a state dinner with lynchers coming.
We'll play lynchers, a rival, just as we would a state rival.
Picture of the North Quarter building.
You meeting the lynchers at the North Quarter building.
Yellow bubble room group.
And, uh... Well... Is that what they want to do?
Yes, sir.
That's what she wants to do.
Well, that's okay.
I'll follow that way and all the other people know.
Sure, sure.
Whatever she wants to do.
All right, well then, I don't have any further questions.
That was the main question.
I know there are a little questions, but if you want to follow up, it's interesting.
So, I'm just, you know, whether there are any questions she's raised or you're raising or what.
Yes, there are questions that I'm raised about the yellow bone.
Do you want both ambassadors up there or the yellow bone?
I don't do the yellow bone.
I mean...
stuff there.
I don't think you need to do that.
It's the same thing.
See, it's not a hitter.
Well, it's not.
Yeah, I'll tell you what I don't want to say.
It's a couple of words.
We have to be tight in the case.
And then you're going to have to stay in the park for eight days.
We treat it as we do it state-of-the-art.
It's a part of that routine.
And really, until you get out before the guests, and then these come, it's the same visit.
And then on the receiving line, you would have eight people.
You have yourself, Mr. Nixon, the lynchers, Tricia, Eddie Krause, and his parents.
Well, yeah, that's great.
Okay, so that's it.
Last time, the cabin being a Tuesday, the morning after you get back, the morning after you get back, it's open.
It's a one-hour meeting, 8 to 9.
The last instructions I have when we have nothing else planned is to get some trip reports from those that went overseas.
We can do that.
Very brief 10-minute trip reports on our overseas trips.
All right.
And John, I would suggest that George run and give a very short pitch.
He says he's doing an especially competent job of signing up and sharing it with my dad.
Yeah.
So I'll line that up and sign that up for you.
All right.
Most of the cabinet members are going to the Vice President's dinner, but, uh, Bob Dole has regretted, and I'm trying to lean on him to get him to go.
I think it's important that he be there.
The 25th?
No, that's on the 19th, March 19th.
The Vice President said, you know, over at their house, with a cabinet.
I thought it was on the 25th.
I think it's on the 25th, but in the meantime, it's the 19th.
Oh, really?
The 25th is the stand's dinner here.
Oh, I see.
Okay, thank you.
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