{"conversationCode":"751-001","tapeNumber":751,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-751-001","startDateTime":"1972-07-24T13:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-07-24T14:14:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Jul-1972","startTime":"9:10 AM","endDate":"24-Jul-1972","endTime":"10:14 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On July 24, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:10 am and 10:14 am. 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Swain\n              -Content and phraseology\n                   -Washington, DC\n\nThe President left and re-entered at an unknown time between 9:10 am and 10:14 am.\n\n                     -Cave Man\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal returnable]\n[Duration: 4m 4s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n*****************************************************************\n\n     George S. McGovern\n         -Youth\n               -Washington Star article\n                    -Julie Nixon Eisenhower\n                    -Series\n         -Press coverage of the President\n\n                                      (rev. Mar-02)\n\n               -The President’s candidacy in 1960, 1968\n               -Chicago Tribune\n          -Biography\n               -Photograph\n                     -Woods’s view\n          -Biography by Robert S. Anson\n               -Serialization by Washington Star\n               -Photograph\n                     -Woods’s view\n          -The President’s and Woods’s view\n\n     John B. Connally\n          -Press conference, July 23, 1972\n                -Unknown person's call to Woods\n          -Appearance\n\n     Jane Brumley\n          -Husband, Frank N. Ikard\n               -Background\n                    -American Petroleum Institute\n                    -Previous wife\n\n     Party July 22, 1972 for Barbara and Clark MacGregor\n          -Woods’s attendance\n          -Paul G. Rogers\n                -Relationship to Woods\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2\n[Personal returnable]\n[Duration: 8m 56s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nWoods left at an unknown time before 10:14 am.\n\n                                       (rev. Mar-02)","filename":["751-001.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"750-016","nextCode":"751-002","transcript":[{"start":1.67,"end":24.44,"text":"I forgot to tell you, we forgot to, we didn't send a message."},{"start":26.44,"end":26.86,"text":"You should."},{"start":61.26,"end":70.84,"text":"I've got the name in there, but I can't think of it right now."},{"start":71.02,"end":71.96,"text":"It's not Swain."},{"start":72.7,"end":73,"text":"Could be."},{"start":73.14,"end":74.38,"text":"There is a Swain."},{"start":74.84,"end":75.5,"text":"Well, I..."},{"start":75.52,"end":76.28,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":76.3,"end":88,"text":"From the slaughtering heat of Washington to the coup"},{"start":106.22,"end":108.4,"text":"I said, hold my cabbie."},{"start":176.53,"end":178.66,"text":"to see you all again in Bohemia."},{"start":225.62,"end":231.75,"text":"This is ironical."},{"start":232.1,"end":234.81,"text":"It is high iron."},{"start":234.84,"end":237.57,"text":"Not working."},{"start":239.95,"end":242.31,"text":"Delay that."},{"start":244.13,"end":248.13,"text":"Four more here."},{"start":267.18,"end":281.96,"text":"And instead of saying, rather than the guests up above, take it out there, you will say, excuse me, best wishes for all of our guests."},{"start":300.74,"end":300.99,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":379.64,"end":383.11,"text":"It was almost herpes."},{"start":384.53,"end":387.15,"text":"Somebody told me, they're crying."},{"start":387.21,"end":390.77,"text":"In all the years I've been a candidate, 60, 68, and so forth."},{"start":390.81,"end":404.38,"text":"I mean, anybody that ever read about me said they were, even in Chicago Tribune, you know, we know our best writers don't do that."},{"start":404.4,"end":404.78,"text":"They shouldn't."},{"start":405.75,"end":409.75,"text":"Well, I tell you, I didn't read it because I looked at the picture."},{"start":409.93,"end":414.91,"text":"You didn't see the picture, and you have looked, though, as a boy."},{"start":415.79,"end":421.11,"text":"It really looks like what he turned out to be in my mind, a queer."},{"start":421.13,"end":421.73,"text":"He's so sissy-fied."},{"start":421.81,"end":424.86,"text":"It was on the front page of the paper, I think."},{"start":425,"end":432.34,"text":"I didn't really read much of the paper after I saw it."},{"start":442,"end":444.41,"text":"That's what it is."},{"start":444.63,"end":448.27,"text":"That's what it is."},{"start":449.17,"end":450.83,"text":"And the star is round, and that's ethereal."},{"start":450.87,"end":452.99,"text":"It's going to be etherealized."},{"start":453.13,"end":461.1,"text":"I don't know how many... And the picture, it was thickness to me."},{"start":461.12,"end":462.86,"text":"It just looks like a little boy's beard."},{"start":482.57,"end":486.79,"text":"He almost has a little bit of a lisp."},{"start":487.73,"end":490.77,"text":"It's not a lisp, but it's the way a lot of the..."},{"start":490.81,"end":496.3,"text":"I know too many of these people, and some of them are very nice, but..."},{"start":497,"end":498.68,"text":"He has an awful lot of manners."},{"start":510.37,"end":512.25,"text":"There's a comic that was put in yesterday."},{"start":512.27,"end":513.23,"text":"Yeah, I saw it."},{"start":513.25,"end":518.69,"text":"I got a phone call with Lilo, and so this is part of it, but he does come across so strong, so."},{"start":518.75,"end":522.49,"text":"He knows how to answer those questions."},{"start":522.51,"end":522.77,"text":"Mm-hmm."},{"start":525.21,"end":526.89,"text":"He leaves no doubt about what he means."},{"start":527.77,"end":527.91,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":527.93,"end":529.67,"text":"And he looks very good."},{"start":530.23,"end":530.93,"text":"He looks very good."},{"start":530.99,"end":531.53,"text":"He looks good."},{"start":531.6,"end":533.22,"text":"He's got such a good manner."},{"start":534.92,"end":538.42,"text":"Incidentally, I called up Jane Burnley, I would say, because she got married Saturday."},{"start":538.5,"end":539.22,"text":"Good, she got married."},{"start":540.21,"end":544.33,"text":"Oh, there is another item."},{"start":544.37,"end":548.74,"text":"Sorry, I didn't know I forgot."},{"start":548.76,"end":550.7,"text":"I didn't know I forgot."},{"start":551.04,"end":553.64,"text":"This was out three years ago."},{"start":591.03,"end":596.21,"text":"We went to that party in honor of Barbara and Clark McGregor's party."},{"start":597.49,"end":599.31,"text":"And Paul Rogers is there."},{"start":599.69,"end":603.22,"text":"And I've known myself about 18 years now."},{"start":604.46,"end":605.96,"text":"And he stood up."},{"start":606.04,"end":607.74,"text":"A couple of people had toasted them."},{"start":607.76,"end":611.22,"text":"And then at the end, he stood up to Clark and said, I wish you success."},{"start":611.24,"end":613.96,"text":"But he's always been like that."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, met to discuss personal administrative tasks, including drafting a message for the Bohemian Grove \"Cave Man\" camp. They transitioned into an informal discussion regarding current political figures and media coverage, specifically critiquing George McGovern's public persona and recent press profiles. The conversation concluded with updates on social engagements and minor personnel matters concerning associates like Jane Brumley and Clark MacGregor.","topics":["Bohemian Grove","George McGovern","Media coverage","Personal correspondence","White House social events"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T03:52:21.011Z"},"topicSlugs":["bohemian-grove","george-mcgovern","media-coverage","personal-correspondence","white-house-social-events"],"audioDurationSec":631,"audioFiles":[{"file":"751-001.mp3","bytes":15136181,"durationSec":630.6,"bitrate":192022,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:57.944Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/751-001.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/751-001","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/751/conversation-751-001","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}