Conversation: 919-024
Prev:  919-023 Next: 919-025Start Date: 16-May-1973 11:49 AM
End Date: 16-May-1973 12:34 PM
Participants:
Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Recording Device: Oval Office
NARA Description:
On May 16, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:49 am and 12:34 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 919-024 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid:
Conversation No. 919-24 Date: May 16, 1973 Time: Unknown between 11:49 am and 12:34 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with Rose Mary Woods. Weather G. Bradford Cook -Robert L. Vesco -Resignation -$48,000 for Hubert H. Humphrey -John Loeb -Indictment David Marx -Telephone call to Rose Mary Woods -Uncle to Daniel Ellsberg’s wife [Patricia Marx] -J. Edgar Hoover’s inaction -Impact on White House investigation -Affinity for Marx family -Telephone call to Woods -Television [TV] -Meeting with Walter L. Cronkite, Jr. President’s possible resignation -Reason -Partisanship Watergate -Effect on nation Woods’s conversation with Marx -Santa Ana Register -George H. W. Bush and Republican National Committee [RNC] -38- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. September-2012) Conversation No. 919-24 (cont’d) Watergate -Calls for President’s resignation -Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony J. Russo, Jr. -National opinion -Theft of national security information -Appointment -Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] -Service on Scranton Committee -Patrick J. Buchanan [?] -Russo’s work in Chicago -Angela Y. Davis -Chicago Seven -Impeachment -Congressional action -Impeachment Henry A. Kissinger -Letter for President to sign -Leonid I. Brezhnev and Nicolai Ceausescu Presidency -Difficulty -State Dinner, May 15 ***************************************************************** [Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 8 s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 -39- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. September-2012) Conversation No. 919-24 (cont’d) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule -Indiana [End segment reviewed under deed of gift] ***************************************************************** Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s schedule -Popular reception ***************************************************************** [Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 26 s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [End segment reviewed under deed of gift] ***************************************************************** Watergate -Possible letters to editors -President’s accomplishments -McCarthyism -Santa Ana Register story regarding the President’s San Clemente property -Trust -40- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. September-2012) Conversation No. 919-24 (cont’d) -Nixon Foundation -Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s comment ***************************************************************** [Begin segment reviewed under deed of gift] President’s schedule -Tiredness -State Dinner -Preoccupations [End segment reviewed under deed of gift] ***************************************************************** Watergate -President’s response -Peter J. Brennan’s telephone call to Woods -White House response -Helen A. Thomas -President’s activities -Woods’s schedule -Social event at Iranian ambassador’s residence -Amir-Alsan Afshar’s demeanor [?] -Frank N. Ikard [?] -Jean Ikard -Edward W. Brooke -Robert Gray -Woods’s demeanor -Support for President -Haircut -Style -Egil (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr. Weather -41- NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Tape Subject Log (rev. September-2012) Conversation No. 919-24 (cont’d) Cook President’s supporters Woods left at an unknown time before 12:34 pm.