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Conversation 594-003

TapeTape 594StartMonday, October 18, 1971 at 10:00 AMEndMonday, October 18, 1971 at 10:17 AMTape start time01:22:17Tape end time01:40:37ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Woods, Rose Mary;  Butterfield, Alexander P.Recording deviceOval 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 financingPresidential correspondenceDwayne O. AndreasBebe RebozoWhite House administration
AudioNARA 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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2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END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2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.
Transcript (AI-Generated)

This transcript was generated automatically by AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite this transcript as authoritative. Consult the Finding Aid above for verified information.

Julie spoke to me about the kid letters.
About them getting
letters 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
You send an answer to a little boy or a little girl right in, the whole family is going to be thrilled.
We just don't have to go third, second year.
Oh, they're terrible.
They're terrible letters to begin with.
It sounds terrible.
They don't write it well.
That's the other thing.
I've always said if you're going to write it for the president or Christ, they write it as a letter.
They don't know it.
Okay, you just take over those kid letters and that would be my signature.
It's not the one she needs, right?
That's all you have to do.
Well, they can serve.
And Julie made a couple of good ones.
One letter she wrote for writing to a teacher who was teaching her class about the flag and the country and so forth.
Did you ever write out to that one?
I haven't yet, no.
But they're working on that.
They're working on it.
It's hard to find somebody...
We don't have a name, you know, to find somebody to lose and write two out of the hundreds of thousands of letters.
Oh, I see.
See, there's just a year left.
Wait, I feel like I can dispute it.
I just get a hold of somebody in West Virginia.
Who was the teacher of the year in 19?
Okay, well, that's good.
Who was the teacher of the year in West Virginia?
Wayne Andrews said that they had a collection of $200,000 and asked you to hold it.
I said, it must be worth a penny.
It's so nice to go to them.
He said, sure.
And I said, you.
He backed me before.
So, I don't know whether you should.
Maybe you should.
Well, you've got a good way.
It's mainly true hope, anyway.
I 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.
So 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.
You see, don't tell, you see, you don't tell a lot of other people.
I said, I don't know.
I said, this is for you.
You're supposed to put it in there.
You're supposed to put it down.
You told the best.
You got what I understood.
I didn't tell you.
I didn't tell you anything.
So some of this is just right here in the cabin, and you know it.
It's just totally...
I think it's just not, not, it's just a lot of that blood.
That's me, I'm leaving now.
I don't need to go back to Chicago.
Well, I'll put it here so we can understand it.
So then there's something like a $9,000 bill that we want.
That's right for me to pay that in taxes.
Yeah, but it's I who told him to be sure, because I already knew if I do it that way.
Yeah.
It's her, uh, father, I guess.
There you go.
Exactly.
Yeah, well, thank you.
I have to say, when I got that one, I thought it was a technical problem.
Well, um, I had a prescription for it somewhere today, and I, I think that, uh, I just have to say something about it.
I didn't decide to direct it to Bob.
Is it?
I understand.
I didn't know that.
Thank you so much.
There's no problem.
It's all here.
It's a dog.
It's trying to play with all of us.
It's a college.
Not that.
I just want to do it.
It's a dog.
It's a dog.
I think that, you know, that last time they gave you some of the very big things, right?
You know, the ones that were in that?
Okay.
Thank you very much.
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