Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 917 › Conversation 917-009

Nixon & Woods on Watergate and White House Tapes

Monday, May 14, 1973 · 11:28 AM–11:40 AM ET · Oval Office · 4 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose MaryConversation917-009 on Tape 917StartMonday, May 14, 1973 at 11:28 AMEndMonday, May 14, 1973 at 11:40 AMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 917-009 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon and his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, met to organize and review sensitive records, including Presidential memoranda and dictabelt tapes relevant to the Watergate investigation. The President reviewed specific files and dictabelt content to manage and verify the filing procedures for these materials. During the meeting, they established instructions for the handling and marking of these tapes to maintain control over the documentation.

Audio

Download MP3 · 8.2 MB

Transcript (AI-generated)

This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Names and numbers are often wrong; speakers are not identified. Do not cite it as authoritative — verify against the audio and the finding aid.

Download transcript (.txt) · JSON data

· Click a timestamp to play from that point; the page address then links to that moment (e.g. #t=125).

There is one.

I'll tell you about the picture.

I'll bring it back to you.

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with it.

But do you have the original one?

Do you have any other ones?

We're checking because I remember them.

But that's the other one in that period.

We're double checking.

Well, you know, there wouldn't be any before that, Rose, because I didn't ever think of being before that.

Yeah.

And here are all of your tapes, your personal tapes, from 2007.

That was when you were divorced.

Yes.

Okay.

I'll return the picture to my private file.

I'll tell you what would be better rather than having to deal with all these things.

Just mark 27, 28.

I'll take this one.

I'll tell you what would be better.

having him here with all these things.

Just mark them, 27 and 28.

I'll take this one now.

And I'll just hand them all back to you.

NARA Description

On May 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:40 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 917-009 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 917-009

Date: May 14, 1973
Time: Unknown between 11:28 am and 11:40 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods.

       Watergate
             -Woods’s files

       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542

               -Presidential memoranda [memos]
                      -Date range
                              -Dean
               -President’s diary tapes
               -President’s memos
                      -Ronald L. Ziegler
                      -Dean

The President played a portion of a previously recorded dictabelt tape.

       Memo to unknown person
             -Tape location

The President stopped playing the dictabelt tape.

       Watergate
             -President’s memos and dictabelt tapes [?]
                    -Date ranges
                    -Procedures for handling

Woods left at an unknown time before 11:40 a.m.

[There is no Conversation No. 917-010]

Also recorded on May 14, 1973

046-025 11:25 AM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Lawrence M. Higby talked on the telephone from 11:25 am to 11:28 am.
917-011 11:28 AM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:40 am.
917-013 11:28 AM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:40 am.
917-014 11:28 AM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:40 am.
917-015 11:28 AM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:40 am.
917-016 11:28 AM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:40 am.
917-017 11:28 AM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:40 am.
917-018 11:28 AM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:40 am.

All 102 conversations from May 14, 1973 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 917-009, May 14, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/917-009 (accessed October 1, 2026).