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Nixon & Acker on Diplomatic protocol and Ambassadors

Wednesday, December 27, 1972 · 10:44 AM–10:48 AM ET · Oval Office · 4 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Acker, Marjorie P.Conversation828-008 on Tape 828StartWednesday, December 27, 1972 at 10:44 AMEndWednesday, December 27, 1972 at 10:48 AMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 828-008 ↗

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President Nixon met with Marjorie P. Acker to coordinate formal diplomatic correspondence regarding Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox’s upcoming trip to Europe and the Soviet Union. Nixon instructed Acker to collaborate with National Security Council staff to ensure that appropriate thank-you letters are drafted for the ambassadors who hosted the couple. Additionally, the pair briefly discussed the logistical handling of an enclosure for a report intended for the West Coast.

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This is another one of those things that goes out there in the West Coast.

This report goes with it.

This is a social security report.

And I think

And it was played in a number of embassies.

They played in embassies like Henry Musgrave.

And they were also entertained like, for example, Hume.

Hume entertained Hume, et cetera.

But I want to, there is a woman over at the NSC who handled that schedule.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

Yeah.

I agree with that.

She's a tall man.

She was in with them.

But what I had is that I want to be sure, and I want to be sure that adequate letters go from me to the ambassadors that, and you check if you were rose when they get back.

for the ambassadors if they say, just sit down with patients and each one should receive letters and make or give the fax.

And have the woman, if she can work out, if you're a listener or somebody over there, work out the letters to the ambassadors.

And if they stay with the ambassadors, she will have to write her own letters.

That's up to her.

But I want letters from me to say the anniversary.

that she was sending to Christian, et cetera.

And of course, a good war hunter in the Russian government, for example, understand?

So if you just follow up in your shop, you don't have to prepare the letters, understand?

But they should be prepared, not just to do the price shop repairs, the ambassadorial types, I mean, the so forth.

The woman will be able to get you the whole schedule.

You sit down with the Christian, get back, go over the whole list of who should receive them.

NARA Description

On December 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Marjorie P. Acker met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:44 am to 10:48 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 828-008 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 828-8

Date: December 27, 1972
Time: 10:44 am - 10:48 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Marjorie P. Acker.

       Paperwork
            -Memorandum
                  -Enclosure
            -Item for the West Coast [for Henry A. Kissinger?]
                  -Dr. James R. Schlesinger report

       Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox’s schedule
             -Trip to Europe and the Soviet Union
                   -Embassies
                         -Henry J. Tasca
                                               -23-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                                                Conversation No. 828-15 (cont’d)

                          -Edward R. G. Heath [?]
                          -Letters to ambassadors
                                -Instructions for [Jeanne W. Davis] of the National Security
                                  Council [NSC]
                                       -Rose Mary Woods
                                       -Acker’s meeting with Tricia Nixon Cox
                                       -[Walter H. and Leonore (Cohn)] Annenberg
                                       -Soviet Union and Yugoslavia governments
                                       -Preparation
                                             -Raymond K. Price, Jr.’s office
                                       -Acker’s meeting with Tricia Nixon Cox

Acker left at 10:48 am.

Also recorded on December 27, 1972

828-006 10:12 AM · 29 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:12 am and 10:44 am.
035-010 10:48 AM · 47 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Marjorie P. Acker talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:48 am and 10:53 am.
828-009 10:48 AM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:48 am and 10:53 am.
828-010 10:48 AM · 44 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Marjorie P. Acker met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:48 am and 10:53 am.
828-011 10:48 AM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:48 am and 10:53 am.
035-011 10:53 AM · 19 sec — the White House operator and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at 10:53 am.
828-012 10:53 AM · 18 sec — the White House operator and President Richard M. Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at 10:53 am.
828-013 11:01 AM · 59 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Peter J. Brennan, Manolo Sanchez, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:01 am to 12:01 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 828-008, December 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/828-008 (accessed October 11, 2026).