Conversation 505-009

On May 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:26 pm and 1:30 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 505-009 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 505-009

Date: May 26, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:26 pm and 1:30 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 3-128]

                                                                              Conversation No. 505-010

Date: May 26, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:22 pm until 1:37 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

     Letter
           -Proofreading
           -William P. Rogers
           -Delivery
           -Maggie Russell

     The President’s schedule
          -Possible visits

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[Previous National Security (B) withdrawal reviewed under MDR guidelines case number
LPRN-T-MDR-2014-026. Segment declassified on 04/26/2019. Archivist: DR]
[National Security]
[505-010-w001]
[Duration: 1m 25s]

     Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
          -Eugene Warner
                -Lunch with Rose Mary Woods and Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
                -Letter to Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
          -Sultan ibn Abd al-Aziz
                -Requests a visit in September 1971
                      -Melvin R. Laird
                      -Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia
                      -James D. (“Don”) Hughes
                      -Henry A. Kissinger
                      -Considerations

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     The President’s schedule
          -Possible visits
               -Claude Pepper
                      -Archbishop
                      -Harry S. Dent
                      -Rebozo

     Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
         -Letter to Woods
                -Book on Thomas Jefferson
                -Proposed book
                     -President's views on Jefferson, [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, and
                           Theodore Roosevelt
                     -Knopf
                     -Timing
                     -Raymond K. Price, Jr.

                       -Woods’ talk with Price

     Letter

     Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] delegation

     Book presentations
          -John B. Connally
          -Frame
          -Costs
          -Speaker of the House
          -Connally

     Presidential libraries
           -Lyndon B. Johnson
                 -Dedication speech
                 -Date
                 -Press
                 -Cost
           -John F. Kennedy
           -Johnson
           -Dwight D. Eisenhower
           -Harry S. Truman
           -Franklin D. Roosevelt
           -Use of money
                 -Analogy to lighting White House
           -Size
           -President's papers
                 -Commitment
                 -Left-wing scholars
                 -Vice presidential papers
                       -Edward L. Morgan
                 -Gift of papers
                       -Taxes
                 -Vice presidential papers

     Police funeral
           -Effect
                -Stock market

                  -New York City
            -John V. Lindsay
            -Police brutality

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 06/20/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[505-010-w003]
[Duration: 3m 51s]

     Dinner, May 25, 1971
          -Waldorf Astoria Ballroom
               -Honoring Edward [surname unknown]
          -H. Ross Perot's attendance
          -Depression
               -[First name unknown] Whitney
                     -Prison

     An event
          -The President's letter
               -Response
               -Spiro T. Agnew
                     -Response
                     -Agnew family
               -Rose Mary Woods
               -John Coleman
                     -Response
               -George Champion, Jr.
               -Unknown woman
                     -Sisters in attendance
                     -Rose Mary Woods’s comments
                     -The President’s opinion
                     -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo’s comments
               -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
                     -Tribute to Sue [?] [surname unknown]
               -Unknown woman

                       -Rose Mary Woods’s comments
                       -Previous appearance
                       -Psychiatrist

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[The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 1:26 pm and
1:37 pm]

[Conversation No. 505-10A]

[See Conversation No. 3-129]

[End of telephone conversation]

Woods left at 1:37 pm.