Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 743 › Conversation 743-007
Nixon, Woods & Sanchez on Personal Staff
Tuesday, June 27, 1972 · 1:55 PM–2:36 PM ET · Oval Office
AI Summary
President Nixon met with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, and personal aide, Manolo Sanchez, for a mid-afternoon administrative session in the Oval Office. The discussion focused on managing the President's personal scheduling, logistical requirements, and routine office operations. No major policy developments or political decisions were recorded during this brief personnel coordination meeting.
Audio
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NARA Description
On June 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:55 pm to 2:36 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 743-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 743-7
Date: June 27, 1972
Time: 1:55-2:36 pm.
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Woods.
George A. Murphy's birthday
-Gift
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:55 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez's health
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:36 pm.
Letter from David M. I. Kendall
-Meeting with Ferdinand E. Marcos
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Reply
Rev. Theodore S. Hesburgh
-Letter to the President
-Civil Rights activities
-Woods view
Duke University
Letter from John A. Volpe
-The President's visit with Volpe's son
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John A. Volpe and John A. Volpe, Jr.
-Meeting with the President
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John N. Mitchell
-Meeting with Woods and Robert H. Finch
-Martha (Beall0 Mitchell
-Press coverage
-Incident in 1968
-Woods, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman
-Publicity
-Press reporting
-Health
-Injection
-Effect of John Mitchell’s resignation
-Cabinet
-Invitations to White House
-Richard G. Kleindienst's swearing-in ceremony
-Martha Mitchells comments to press
-Helen A. Thomas reporting
Helen H. Thomas
-Interview with Rose Mary Woods
-Stories on the President's family
-"News" defined
John Mitchell
-Options
-Martha Mitchell
-Interest in the President's re-election
-Martha Mitchell
-Daughter Marty
-Gift from Woods
-Actions
-Comments to press
-Telephone calls to White House
-Woods view
-Statements to press
-Press
Letter from Vernon A. (“Dick”) Walters
Adm. Hyman G. Rickover's letter to the President
-The President's letter on death of wife
Report from Richard M. Helms
-Finland
-Helms
-The President’s trip to the Soviet Union
-Henry A. Kissinger
Howard Seeger of US News and World Report
Loren Begg
-Copies
Goldthwaite H. Dorr's 96th birthday
Samuel I. Hayakawa
-Haig
The President's schedule
-Unknown woman [Alice Bumlecher ?]
-Possible meeting
The President's forthcoming acceptance speech
-People who influenced the President's life
-Wallace Newman
-Paul Smith
-J. Hershel Coffin and Rev. Garland Moore
Planting of tree at Connecticut State Capitol
-Harry S. Dent
Jeane L. Dixon
-Soviet Union and Japan
-Yamato Steel Company
-Panama Canal
-Haig
Taft Schreiber
-Asa V. Call
-Campaign contributions
-Wood's call to Call
Frank [Ledman ?]
-Letters to the President
-Support
Unknown man [Lou Michols?]
-Letter on Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] director
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Nichols’s view
-The President's view
-Possible response
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III
Gifts to the President from Saudi Arabian Minister of Defense [Sultan ibn Abd al-Aziz]
-Letter of thanks
-Previous visit with the President
-Melvin R. Laird
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox
-The President’s appreciation
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Gifts to the President from Saudi Arabian Minister of Defense [Sultan ibn Abd al-Aziz]
-Sultan ibn Abd al-Aziz
-Confidential memo
-Health
-Hospital visit
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Files
-Disposition
-Woods
White House gifts
-Mrs. Nixon
-Gift from Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Painting
-Other gifts
-Gifts to the President
-Disposition
-The President's view
-Mrs. Nixon
-White House cuff links
-Cost
-Gifts to visitors
-White House tie tac
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Letters to the President
-“Checkers” speech
-Destruction by Murray M. Chotiner
-Ruth (Almond?) and Loie Gaunt
-The President’s files
-Disposition
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John Mitchell
-Martha Mitchell
-Health
-Woods view
Finnish report
Jeane Dixon's husband's letter (James L. Dixon)
Press
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Sam Houston Johnson
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Press
-The President’s brother
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Press
-The President’s brother
-John Mitchell
The President and Woods left at 2:36 pm.Transcript (AI-generated)
No transcript is available because Easy Nixon does not have the audio yet.
Also recorded on June 27, 1972
- 026-014 1:36 PM · 25 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 1:36 pm to 1:37 pm.
- 026-015 2:36 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:36 pm and 3:11 pm.
- 344-027 2:36 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:36 pm and 3:11 pm.
- 344-028 2:36 PM · 25 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:36 pm and 3:11 pm.
- 344-029 2:36 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:36 pm and 3:11 pm.
- 026-016 3:11 PM · 21 min — President Richard M. Nixon and William F. ("Billy") Graham talked on the telephone from 3:11 pm to 3:32 pm.
- 344-030 3:11 PM · 16 min — President Richard M. Nixon and William F. ("Billy") Graham met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:11 pm to 3:32 pm.
- 344-031 3:32 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:32 pm and 3:35 pm.
Related conversations
- Nixon & Sanchez on Rose Mary Woods and document management December 18, 1971 · 2 min
- Nixon & Woods on Personal Staff and Constituent Relations March 16, 1973 · 4 min
- Nixon & Woods on William Safire and Henry Kissinger February 8, 1972 · 2 min
- Nixon & Sanchez on movie screening and personal staff August 3, 1971
- Nixon & Sanchez on White House Correspondents' Dinner and Personal staff April 14, 1973 · 1 min
- Nixon phone call with Woods on John B. Connally and Quadriad June 14, 1971 · 3 min
Cite this conversation
Conversation 743-007, June 27, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/743-007 (accessed November 1, 2026).