Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 728 › Conversation 728-007
Nixon, Haldeman & Woods on Angela Davis trial and Administrative dictation
Tuesday, June 6, 1972 · 2:17 PM–2:50 PM ET · Oval Office
AI Summary
President Nixon met with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, and briefly with Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman to review his daily schedule, administrative dictation, and upcoming travel arrangements. The discussion covered routine matters such as weather reports for Camp David, feedback regarding the President's recent speech to Congress, and planning for a state dinner. Additionally, Nixon and Woods engaged in a discussion expressing strong disapproval of the recent acquittal of Angela Davis and the conduct of her jury, which led to a broader conversation about political opponents and current public figures.
- Presidential schedule
- Angela Davis trial
- Administrative dictation
- Political commentary
- White House logistics
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38:53I didn't know if you wanted to hook back.
39:00Well, I didn't.
39:15do anything with it.
39:15I kept it for you.
39:16And I understood you, I don't think you wanted me to file this.
39:19I think you said you might want to dictate something on that.
39:21You had one tape that you wanted me to file.
39:25And maybe it's just one of those that you put next to private file, I don't know.
39:44I don't want to work on it right now.
39:46No, I didn't want to carry it around and be there.
40:21Yeah, the thing about weather down there, you know, it's about the one time of year that we all forget, we can guess on it.
40:31It's June.
40:34And so they have a freak.
40:39It is hard to...
41:06Maybe you'd like somebody to take that mark in with you.
41:31Everyone, all kinds of people have called, you know, so it's a great job you're doing.
41:39Lauren Barry, you know, old friends.
41:41Yeah, Pauline.
41:42Back in Dayton now, in Florida.
41:43Ann Downer, Courtney Virgin, and just all kinds of people have called.
41:55People, many of them, who never bother consumers and don't want to bother you now, they just call us back and tell you you don't want to stop.
42:10Yes, why don't you tell them, uh, we, uh,
42:38I don't know whether the 15th dinner is marked in there.
42:41Is it President of Mexico?
42:42I'm not sure.
45:50I don't think so.
46:00I've told them not to.
46:11be sure but they told him i'll have to go no well what you do is call him you can say you were going to camp david and tell him the helicopter won't work i hope you go by but the helicopter can't get up
46:42What's the prediction?
46:43Is it going to clear up up there?
46:53Apparently not tonight.
46:56And I'm predicting cloud.
46:57Cloudy tomorrow, not rain.
46:58It's about a 50% chance of rain tonight.
47:02And cloudy tomorrow.
47:07I'm going to get any decent weather up there.
47:14It was so gorgeous here all of the weekend.
47:16Yeah, the weekend was great here.
47:18I knew it was a stage for a Florida excessive, but you know, all those things.
47:21Saturday was in the 80s, but not human.
47:28And Sunday, too.
47:31Sunday, too, so it was a storm Sunday night.
47:37Well, if you were in the country, you'd have a thunderstorm on Sunday night.
47:40I think so.
47:40Yes, you have.
47:41Even California.
47:42Even Bob Springs.
47:43Oh, really?
47:44Come on, Eric.
47:44Well, let me think about it a little.
47:46I don't know if they're going to have a helicopter or not.
47:49I don't know.
47:52Bob just told us a helicopter came.
47:54Yeah.
47:55Wait.
47:56And why don't you just see what you want to do.
47:58We'll hold out until you might still decide.
48:07I read this.
1:06:59What the hell do you think of getting an actual bail or something?
1:07:03So it's disgraceful.
1:07:04And then the jurors have a big party together with them.
1:07:06One of them held up the clenched fist.
1:07:09One of the jurors?
1:07:10So he has to be convinced.
1:07:13Well, and someone said that that white woman who obviously ran the whole, well, they were all white, women who ran the whole committee, the entire jury.
1:07:26The jury.
1:07:27The jury.
1:07:27That's disgraceful.
1:07:30If they were even in that much, I mean, there's real collusion there, but I don't think they had, they didn't have any sense to show up at those parties and dancing and having a big time together because she got free.
1:07:46It's unbelievable.
1:07:50Terrible.
1:07:51And what a miscarriage of justice.
1:07:53They're that jury.
1:07:54They're smarter than our side.
1:07:58They had that maturity absolutely fast.
1:08:08Or else they had this one woman they knew was so much smarter than any of the others.
1:08:22Actually, just eight to deport those people to Cuba or Russia or Poland or any of these places that they hold up as a great centers of freedom and not oppression.
1:08:46Sure could.
1:08:48So I said, thank God we were done.
1:08:50How about when he killed her?
1:08:53He said, well, I don't think he'd call me again.
1:08:54I bet she called him out of the way.
1:09:00Yeah.
1:09:00She really is a horrible person.
1:09:02She's going to cause a lot more trouble.
1:09:06She needs official care over there, too.
1:09:08Yeah, the musky came off for her, which is good.
1:09:10I'm not musky.
1:09:11I'm a governor.
1:09:14A governor?
1:09:15Yeah.
1:09:17I think anyone would think that in the country, even if anything, God forbid, ever happened to you, and he were the other candidate, it just seems to me that the country would, anyone would think that would run for the hills.
1:10:12I wonder how much time it would save.
1:10:15And I still don't know how much time it would save.
1:10:24But that is not only about a third of the way, but it's the traffic ways.
NARA Description
On June 6, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:17 pm and 2:50 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 728-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 728-7
Date: June 6, 1972
Time: Unknown between 2:17 and 2:50 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
The President's schedule
-Memoranda
-Woods
-Unknown book of the President's
-Dictation
-Tape
-Florida
-Weather
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 12s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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The President's previous speech to joint session of Congress
-Reactions
-Loren M. Berry
-Dayton, Ohio
-Florida
-Anne Dalmer
-Courtney Gertin (sp?)
The President's schedule
-Head of State Dinner for Luis Echeverria Alvarez
-Timing
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 2m 51s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2
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H.R. Haldeman entered at 2:27 pm.
The President's schedule
-Camp David
-Bethesda Naval Hospital
-Visit to Barry M. Goldwater
-Camp David
-Weather forecast
-Weather
-Washington, DC
-Florida
-California
-Palm Springs
-Camp David
-Helicopter
Haldeman left at 2:28 pm.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 18m 41s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3
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Angela Y. Davis trial
-Woods’s view
-Jury
-The President’s view
-Jury
-Woods’ view
-Deportation
-Cuba
-Russia
-Poland
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Public statements
-George S. McGovern
-Edmund S. Muskie
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 33s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4
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Woods left at 2:50 pm.Also recorded on June 6, 1972
- 025-016 2:01 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:01 pm and 2:05 pm.
- 025-017 2:01 PM · 2 min — unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:01 pm and 2:05 pm.
- 728-002 2:01 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:01 pm and 2:04 pm.
- 728-003 2:01 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:01 pm and 2:04 pm.
- 728-004 2:01 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:01 pm and 2:04 pm.
- 728-005 2:04 PM · 13 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:04 pm to 2:17 pm.
- 728-006 2:17 PM · 50 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 2:17 pm.
- 728-008 2:50 PM · 1 hr 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:50 pm to 4:01 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 728-007, June 6, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/728-007 (accessed October 9, 2026).