Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 518 › Conversation 518-001
Nixon & Woods
Saturday, June 12, 1971 · 10:20 AM–10:23 AM ET · Oval Office · 3 min
AI Summary
President Nixon met with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, for a brief administrative consultation in the Oval Office. While no transcript exists to detail the specific content, such meetings typically involved coordinating the President's private schedule, managing confidential correspondence, or handling sensitive personal files. No major policy developments were recorded during this brief three-minute interaction.
Audio
NARA Description
On June 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:20 am to 10:23 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 518-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 518-1 Date: June 12, 1971 Time: 10:20 am - 10:23 am Location: Oval Office The President met with Rose Mary Woods ****************************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 12/19/2019. Segment will remain closed.] [Personal Returnable] [518-001-w001] [Duration: 2m 45s] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ****************************************************************************** Woods left at 10:23 am
Transcript (AI-generated)
No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The entire recording consists of periodic tones and silence corresponding to a withdrawn item; there is no intelligible speech.
Material withdrawn by the National Archives (for privacy or national security) is replaced with a tone or silence in the released audio.
Also recorded on June 12, 1971
- 005-019 10:16 AM · 2 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:16 am and 11:17 am.
- 518-004 10:16 AM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:16 am and 11:17 am.
- 518-002 10:23 AM · 47 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:23 am to 10:25 am.
- 518-003 10:32 AM · 36 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:32 am to 11:11 am.
- 005-020 11:17 AM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 11:17 am to 11:19 am.
- 518-005 11:17 AM · 57 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:17 am to 11:19 am.
- 518-006 11:19 AM · 34 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:19 am and 11:50 am.
- 518-007 11:50 AM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:50 am and 12:12 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 518-001, June 12, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417177163). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/518-001 (accessed November 2, 2026).