Conversation 691-008

TapeTape 691StartTuesday, March 21, 1972 at 7:00 PMEndTuesday, March 21, 1972 at 7:04 PMTape start time02:46:00Tape end time02:55:21ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Woods, Rose MaryRecording deviceOval Office

On March 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 7:00 pm to 7:04 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 691-008 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 691-8

Date: March 21, 1972
Time: 7:00 pm - 7:04 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

     The President’s forthcoming state dinner for Nihat Erim
          -Marjorie P. Acker [?]
          -Henry E. Ford II
               -Contribution
                      -Hubert H. Humphrey
          -Max M. Fisher
          -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
          -Gale E. Sayers
          -Lowell C. Wadmond
          -Del E. Webb
               -Charles W. Colson
          -Max von Schrader
          -Webb
               -Contributions
          -O[renthal] J[ames] Simpson
               -Delivery of invitation

Woods left at 7:04 pm.

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He had a facial that was pretty tight.
I don't know if he had anything, but this is one of his sorry answers, right?
Yeah.
Sorry he asked me to say that he had no idea what I was doing for that.
Yeah.
Are we having a board for him?
Yeah.
I think if he does come through or something, I'll drop him.
I'm not sure.
You know what he did?
Well, they pushed to let him and Max Fisher come.
They had a long after.
They were just invited Friday.
How?
My expression to him.
Well, those are all the people that are destroyed.
God, here it is.
It is, but it ought to be destroyed.
Still, sir, it feels hopeless.
Ah, sir, even in that place of...
Oh, why don't you tell them?
Yeah, why don't you start to tell them?
You tell them.
They're aware.
They're aware.
That's it.
That's closing, Scott.
I'm certain, Colton, I have the most to recommend to these people.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
The one football player, OJ, couldn't get his invitation.
He would have gone back and made calls to try to find out why he hadn't received our answer.
We're in the mail.
The man who made the career change, I thought, he doesn't receive it yet.
How do you know?
It just happens, you know, sometimes it happens.
I don't have any description of it.
Do you have a what?
A package that was sent to me.
I wonder if somebody sold it somewhere else.
Just sold it.
Sometimes they do, yeah.