Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 594 › Conversation 594-003
Nixon, Woods & Butterfield on Campaign financing
Monday, October 18, 1971 · 10:00 AM–10:17 AM ET · Oval Office
AI Summary
President Nixon met with his personal secretary Rose Mary Woods and aide Alexander P. Butterfield to discuss administrative matters, including the handling of presidential correspondence to children. The group also addressed sensitive campaign financing issues, specifically involving a $200,000 contribution from Dwayne O. Andreas and the storage of those funds by Bebe Rebozo. Additionally, the President reviewed his schedule and touched upon the purchase of wine for the White House.
- Campaign financing
- Presidential correspondence
- Dwayne O. Andreas
- Bebe Rebozo
- White House administration
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1:23:12Julie spoke to me about the kid letters.
1:23:29About them getting
1:23:31letters with my signature yeah i agree just with her and ask her to look at them because she wants you next time they can be in my signature i think anything that can go that has no problem to it there's no reason not to get any quality
1:23:58You send an answer to a little boy or a little girl right in, the whole family is going to be thrilled.
1:24:03We just don't have to go third, second year.
1:24:05Oh, they're terrible.
1:24:06They're terrible letters to begin with.
1:24:08It sounds terrible.
1:24:10They don't write it well.
1:24:10That's the other thing.
1:24:12I've always said if you're going to write it for the president or Christ, they write it as a letter.
1:24:17They don't know it.
1:24:19Okay, you just take over those kid letters and that would be my signature.
1:24:26It's not the one she needs, right?
1:24:27That's all you have to do.
1:24:29Well, they can serve.
1:24:30And Julie made a couple of good ones.
1:24:31One letter she wrote for writing to a teacher who was teaching her class about the flag and the country and so forth.
1:24:36Did you ever write out to that one?
1:24:38I haven't yet, no.
1:24:39But they're working on that.
1:24:41They're working on it.
1:24:43It's hard to find somebody...
1:24:46We don't have a name, you know, to find somebody to lose and write two out of the hundreds of thousands of letters.
1:24:51Oh, I see.
1:24:54See, there's just a year left.
1:24:55Wait, I feel like I can dispute it.
1:24:57I just get a hold of somebody in West Virginia.
1:25:01Who was the teacher of the year in 19?
1:25:04Okay, well, that's good.
1:25:05Who was the teacher of the year in West Virginia?
1:25:19Wayne Andrews said that they had a collection of $200,000 and asked you to hold it.
1:25:24I said, it must be worth a penny.
1:25:28It's so nice to go to them.
1:25:30He said, sure.
1:25:31And I said, you.
1:25:32He backed me before.
1:25:35So, I don't know whether you should.
1:25:38Maybe you should.
1:25:39Well, you've got a good way.
1:25:45It's mainly true hope, anyway.
1:25:48I mean, an old post goes like, if you do a call today, there's nothing I don't want to see, and I don't want to know.
1:33:24So at the end of his time, I actually got home and he said, I said, I mean, you know, this is good, don't tell anybody.
1:33:27You see, don't tell, you see, you don't tell a lot of other people.
1:33:28I said, I don't know.
1:33:28I said, this is for you.
1:33:29You're supposed to put it in there.
1:33:30You're supposed to put it down.
1:33:30You told the best.
1:33:31You got what I understood.
1:33:31I didn't tell you.
1:33:31I didn't tell you anything.
1:33:55So some of this is just right here in the cabin, and you know it.
1:33:56It's just totally...
1:33:57I think it's just not, not, it's just a lot of that blood.
1:34:23That's me, I'm leaving now.
1:34:23I don't need to go back to Chicago.
1:34:52Well, I'll put it here so we can understand it.
1:35:27So then there's something like a $9,000 bill that we want.
1:35:28That's right for me to pay that in taxes.
1:36:01Yeah, but it's I who told him to be sure, because I already knew if I do it that way.
1:36:02Yeah.
1:36:03It's her, uh, father, I guess.
1:36:03There you go.
1:36:03Exactly.
1:36:04Yeah, well, thank you.
1:36:04I have to say, when I got that one, I thought it was a technical problem.
1:36:30Well, um, I had a prescription for it somewhere today, and I, I think that, uh, I just have to say something about it.
1:36:32I didn't decide to direct it to Bob.
1:36:57Is it?
1:37:36I understand.
1:37:37I didn't know that.
1:37:37Thank you so much.
1:37:38There's no problem.
1:37:38It's all here.
1:37:38It's a dog.
1:37:38It's trying to play with all of us.
1:37:39It's a college.
1:37:40Not that.
1:37:40I just want to do it.
1:37:40It's a dog.
1:37:41It's a dog.
1:38:06I think that, you know, that last time they gave you some of the very big things, right?
1:38:09You know, the ones that were in that?
1:38:10Okay.
1:39:10Thank you very much.
NARA Description
On October 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:00 am to 10:17 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 594-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 594-3
Date: October 18, 1971
Time: 10:00 am - 10:17 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 43s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Letters from school children
-The President's signature
-White House correspondence branch
-The President’s instructions
-Autopen
-School children
-West Virginia
-Teacher of the Year, 1970
Campaign financing
-Dwayne O. Andreas
-Contribution
-Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
The President's schedule
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 7m 31s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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Campaign financing
-Andreas
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman assessment
-Herbert W. Kalmbach’s knowledge
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Haldeman
-Rebozo
-Knowledge
-Andreas
-Storage of contribution
-Rebozo
Purchase of wine for White House
-Kalmbach
-John A. Mulcahy
-Walter R. Tkach
Alexander P. Butterfield entered at 10:12 am.
The President's schedule
-Leslie T. (“Bob”) and Delores Hope
Woods left at 10:17 am
The President and Butterfield left at 10:19 am.Also recorded on October 18, 1971
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- 594-004 10:19 AM · 2 min — unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:19 am and 12:00 pm.
- 594-005 12:01 PM · 34 min — President Richard M. Nixon, William P. Rogers, Robert H. Finch, White House photographer, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:01 pm to 12:35 pm.
- 594-006 12:35 PM · 31 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:35 pm and 12:37 pm.
- 594-007 12:37 PM · 8 min — George T. Bell, Thomas G. Walters, Mrs. Thomas G. Walters, Clarence M. Tarr, Mrs. Clarence M. Tarr, Arthur L. Sparks, Mrs. Arthur L. Sparks, Vincent G. Walkendifer, Mrs. Vincent G. Walkendifer, Gertrude G. Davis, Carleton J. Chace, James W. Stone, Mrs. James W. Stone, Ted R. Gardner, Mrs. Ted R. Gardner, Col. Glenn R. Johnson, F. E. O'Connor, Luther L. Miller, Joe G. Attebery, Mrs. Joe G. Attebery, Ed W. Meadows, Mrs. Ed W. Meadows, Ray Hillyard, Charles J. Turrisi, Mrs. Charles J. Turrisi, Ben W. Graybill, David M. Magee, Chris J. O'Neill, Judith E. Park, and Katherine G. Slade met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:37 pm to 12:44 pm.
- 594-008 12:44 PM · 55 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:44 pm and 12:46 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 594-003, October 18, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/594-003 (accessed October 12, 2026).