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Nixon & Woods on Walter H. Annenberg and Gift protocols

Friday, December 10, 1971 · 5:34 PM–5:38 PM ET · Oval Office · 3 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose MaryConversation636-010 on Tape 636 (tape position 01:52:49–01:55:36)StartFriday, December 10, 1971 at 5:34 PMEndFriday, December 10, 1971 at 5:38 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 636-010 ↗

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President Nixon and his personal secretary Rose Mary Woods met to coordinate administrative details, including the President's upcoming interview schedule with Jerrold Schecter and logistics regarding Julie Nixon Eisenhower's travel. The pair also discussed a gift, the "Star of the President," received from Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg. Additionally, they reviewed standard protocols for handling gifts to the President and confirmed dinner arrangements.

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Well, I was wondering if Bob, I've got a new chapter now, the opening at 6 o'clock.
Julie's late.
I don't know.
She doesn't get to the end until 5.30, 5.35.
So she won't be in here until probably 6, 6.30.
Oh, yes, may not.
I was thinking about writing that chapter.
Maybe not.
Probably.
She didn't hear a little bit of it.
Sorry.
I don't know.
It just looks great.
That's a good change.
How did you already talk to the pastor?
He must have been thrilled that you liked him.
He was like a little boy.
He just couldn't wait.
Well, it's a great, great thing.
And he knows it.
It's beautiful inside.
And he said, you've just been great.
He just shows you now and then how to make a fine for some of them.
He appreciates it and figures you're doing them a favor and you're doing you a favor.
A lot of people figure that we're doing them a favor.
I mean, they're doing us a favor.
The government a favor by taking the job, so that helps.
He feels he's proud.
He's proud and he's the ambassador and he knows we stuck by him.
He was under the heat, too.
And we don't have plenty.
We really don't.
We feel like we're some, but not many.
And that is .
That's the design and .
Well, what do you think, though, that we ought to do then about it?
Well, why don't you stay here and come over then there.
I just planned it.
We'll save some other things that won't.
Most things that come through and go through are moving.
I know they're open before.
But what do you mean, he had a gift for you?
Yes.
All right, bye.

NARA Description

On December 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:34 pm and 5:38 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 636-010 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 636-10

Date: December 10, 1971
Time: Unknown between 5:34 pm and 5:38 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

     The President's schedule
          -Jerrold L. Schecter interview
                -Timing
                -H. R. Haldeman

     Julie Nixon Eisenhower's schedule
           -Andrews Air Force Base

     Gift from Walter H. Annenberg
           -“Star of the President”
           -Location
           -John B. Connally
           -Annenberg

**********************************************************************

[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 12/07/2017.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[636-010-w001]
[Duration: 53s]

     Dinner
          -Rose Mary Woods’s attendance
          -Time

     Gifts to the President
          -Standard procedures
               -Lucy Winchester

**********************************************************************

Woods left at 5:38 pm.

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  • 016-085 5:17 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 5:17 pm.
  • 016-086 5:18 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and William H. Rehnquist talked on the telephone from 5:18 pm to 5:20 pm.
  • 016-087 5:20 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:20 pm and 7:53 pm.
  • 636-011 5:38 PM · 48 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Jerrold L. Schecter met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:38 pm to 6:27 pm.
  • 308-009 6:27 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Jerrold L. Schecter met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 6:27 pm to 6:37 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 636-010, December 10, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/636-010 (accessed October 5, 2026).