President Nixon met with Rose Mary Woods, Manolo Sanchez, and an unknown guest to discuss his ongoing recovery from viral pneumonia and his intense frustration regarding the Senate Watergate Committee hearings. Nixon expressed profound disapproval of Senator Howard Baker’s conduct during the hearings, declaring that Baker would no longer be welcome at the White House. Additionally, the President praised the testimony of John Mitchell and Richard Moore, contrasting their reliability with the accusations made by John Dean, and reaffirmed his administration's decision to withhold White House papers from the committee.
On July 12, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Manolo Sanchez, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:30 pm to 4:46 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 949-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 949-10
Date: July 12, 1973
Time: 4:30 pm - 4:46 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rose Mary Woods, Manolo Sanchez, and an unknown person.
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President’s schedule
-Henry A. Kissinger
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 4:46 pm.
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President’s schedule
-President’s health
-Woods’s suggestion
-Bed rest
-Doctor’s recommendation
-Position
Sanchez left an unknown time before 4:46 pm.
President’s health
-Prognosis
-Viral pneumonia
-Duration
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President’s health
-Doctor’s visits
-Distance from White House
-Andrews Air Force Base
Gift from an unknown man
-Watch
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s birthday
-Malachite box
-Invitation to White House
-Potential for negative press coverage
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Watergate
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Richard A. Moore’s testimony
-Daniel K. Inouye [?]
-Majority Counsel
-Jew
-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [HEW]
-John N. Mitchell
-Forthcoming telephone call from Rose Mary Woods
-Ervin Committee testimony
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-President’s schedule
-Access to White House, President
-President’s schedule
-Inouye, Joseph M. Montoya
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-Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
-Questioning of Mitchell
-Weicker and Baker
-Posturing
-Baker
-President’s meeting with William E. Timmons
-William E. Brock, III
-Intelligence
-Timmons
-Inouye
-Invitation
-Liberal invitees
-Baker
-Questioning of Mitchell
-Questioning of John W. Dean, III
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Watergate
-Mitchell
-Statement regarding President
-Mutual friends
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-Telephone call from Woods
-Ervin Committee testimony
-Moore
-Ervin Committee testimony
-Role
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-Dean’s testimony
-Fundraising
-Testimony compared to Mitchell’s testimony
-Fundraising
-La Costa
-Access to files
-Ervin’s telephone call to President
-Baker
-Baker, Weicker
-Access to White House, President
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President’s schedule
-President’s health
-Woods’s recommendation
-Rest in Lincoln Sitting Room
-Clothes
-X-ray
-Timing
-Clothes
-Naval clinic
-Utility
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Conversation No. 949-10 (cont’d)
President’s health
-President’s appearance
-Symptoms
-Pneumonia
-Hospital
-Walter Reed Hospital
-Compared to naval hospital
-Dr. [First name unknown] Henning [?]
Gift
-Watch in malachite box
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Thomas Hart [?]
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Woods’s request to Sanchez
Woods left at 4:46 pm.This transcript was generated automatically by AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Do not cite this transcript as authoritative. Consult the Finding Aid above for verified information.