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Conversation 689-001

TapeTape 689StartMonday, March 20, 1972 at 8:50 AMEndMonday, March 20, 1972 at 8:56 AMParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Woods, Rose Mary;  [Unknown person(s)]Recording deviceOval Office
AudioNARA Description

On March 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:50 am to 8:56 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 689-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 689-1

Date: March 20, 1972
Time: 8:50 am - 8:56 am
Location: Oval Office

     Letters and memoranda for the file

     Letter
           -Child at White House church service
                -Classmates signatures
           -The President's response

An unknown person entered and left at an unknown time before 8:56 am.

     Forthcoming White House dinner

     [No conversation]

          -Alice Roosevelt Longworth
          -Date
          -Participants
                -Henry A. Kissinger
                     -Acapulco
                -Mr. and Mrs. John B. Connally
                -Mr. and Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller
                -Mr. and Mrs. Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
                -Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Alsop
                -Mr. and Mrs. J. Willard Marriott
          -Date and time
                -The President’s schedule
                -Other individuals' schedule
                -Change

Woods left.
Transcript (AI-Generated)

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The little kid who was out of church gave me a letter from his class.
All the kids sang it.
And the mail for people were parallel.
I don't think.
Well, you may not.
I mean, he didn't.
I don't know where you can put his name.
Yeah, he did his national.
I, uh, wish that, uh,
All right.
on, uh, the 30th.
That's Thursday.
Let's see.
That's, uh...
Uh, first, be sure to check to see whether she, um, whether Mrs. Longwood had come.
this small dinner experience and here's that visitor i want him there he just checked his office here
We want the John Collins, the Nelson-Macaforas, the Wolden-Lewises, and the Joseph Alston.
That's 12.
And the
If one of the couples can't come, the marriage is on.
Thank you.
That's upstairs in the project, 7.30 to 5.00.
7.30 to 5.00, yeah.
Make it Thursday, that means that I will have the week done pretty well.
I have to stay here that weekend anyway.
Do you think people will be going away to the nursing home?
I don't know.
It'll take a long weekend, they will be.
It's Friday, so...
Not everyone.
Yeah.
Well, Megan Lindsay is safer than Megan Lindsay.
Oh yeah, not that kind of thing.
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