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On November 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:24 am to 11:01 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 618-013 of the White House Tapes. Topics include: The President met with Rose Mary Woods. ***************************************************************** [Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 04/04/2022. Segment cleared for release.] [Personal Returnable] [618-013- W001] [Duration: 36s] Rose Mary Woods - Aunt - Friends - Previous weekend plans - Alexandria, Virginia ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** [Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 02/01/2023. Segment cleared for release.] [Personal Returnable] [618-013- W002] [Duration: 44s] Thelma C. (Ryan) ("Pat") Nixon - Hand- Shaking - Press - Julie Nixon Eisenhower's influence - African trip - Julie Nixon Eisenhower ***************************************************************** The President's schedule - Cabinet wives and Elinor I. (Judefind) Agnew - Thelma C. ("Pat") Nixon - Church services - Hand- Shaking - The President's conversation with William F. ("Billy") Graham - Guests - Prisoners of war [POWs] wives - Charles W. Colson and Lucy A. Winchester - Duration - Birthday calls to congressmen - The President's calls to paraplegics - Walter Reed Army Hospital - Church services - Guests - State Dining Room - State Dinners - Guests - White House - Henry A. Kissinger - Maj. Gen. James D. ("Don") Hughes - John D. Ehrlichman - Paul W. McCracken - Peter M. Flanigan - Kissinger - Peter G. Peterson, Ehrlichman and the Vice President Spiro T. Agnew - Reception - Hughes - State Department - Emilio Garrastazu Medici - Guests - John N. Irwin II - William P. Rogers -[Melvin R. Laird] - Robert H. Finch - John B. Connally and John N. Mitchell - Guests White House social affairs - Gene Raymond - Jeanette MacDonald ***************************************************************** [Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 04/04/2022. Segment cleared for release.] [Personal Returnable] [618-013- W003] [Duration: 7s] White House social affairs Thelma C. (Ryan) ("Pat") Nixon - Brennan family - Daughter in- Law - Suicide ***************************************************************** White House social affairs - Barry Brennan - Invitation to White House State Dinners -[Forename unknown] The Langs [sp?] -[Forename unknown] Futaro [sp?] - Allan Jones - Man of LeMancha - John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Futaro's [sp?] girls Wine for dinners - The President's memo to Alexander P. Butterfield or Rex W. Scouten -1966 Bordeaux - Allen J. Ellender's recommendation - Scouten The President's schedule - Church services - Location - Second floor - Mrs. Nixon - Unknown person Lynn Ayers [sp?] ***************************************************************** [Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 04/0/2022. Segment cleared for release.] [Personal Returnable] [618-013- W004] [Duration: 19s] Julie Nixon Eisenhower - Cleveland - Man of La Mancha - Allan Jones ***************************************************************** The President's schedule - Rose Mary Woods invitation - Unknown man - Church service - Wife - Presidential gift - Ann Landers - Letter - Paul Healy's article in New York Daily News -[Julie Nixon Eisenhower] ***************************************************************** [Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 04/05/2022. 3m 32s segment cleared for release with two segments of 16s and 2s remaining closed as 618-013- W005 and 618-013- W008 respectively.] [Personal Returnable] [618-013- W005] [Duration: 3m 32s] Julie Nixon Eisenhower - November 12, 1971 "Festival at Ford's" event at Ford Theater - Beauty An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:24 am. New York Daily News article on Julie Nixon Eisenhower, 11/14 The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:01 am. ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 5 [Personal Returnable [618-013- W005] [Duration: 16s] END WITHDRAWAN ITEM NO. 5 ***************************************************************** Julie Nixon Eisenhower - Beauty - Compared to unknown person - Compared to Eleanor Roosevelt - The President's opinion - Photograph used in New York Daily News article - Press - Beauty - Public speaking ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8 [Personal Returnable] [618-013- W008] [Duration: 2s] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 8 ***************************************************************** Julie Nixon Eisenhower - Photograph used in New York Daily News article - Compared to Julie Andrews - Hannah Milhous Nixon - Physical similarities ***************************************************************** Letter - Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] - Ehrlichman Mrs. Nixon - Forthcoming trip to Africa - Liberia - State Department - Bob [Surname unknown] - Walter E. Washington - Press - Roger and Louise Johnson - Bernard J. ("Bunny") Lasker - Children - Graham - William R. Tolbert, Jr.'s invitation - State Department - The President's conversation with H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman - William P. Rogers's views - Barbara M. Watson - Position - William R. Codus Protocol - Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher, Jr. - USSR trip - Patricia R. Mosbacher - Vernon C. Coffey - Secret Service The Vice President's note to the President - Robert F. Ellsworth's call to Woods - International Monetary Fund [IMF] - The President's response - Kissinger and Connally Rose Mary Woods ***************************************************************** [Previous PRMPA Privacy (D) reviewed under deed of gift 04/04/2022. Segment cleared for release.] [Privacy] [618-013- W007] [Duration: 6s] Rose Mary Woods - Health ***************************************************************** Rose Mary Woods - Schedule - California - Haldeman The President's forthcoming trips to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] and People's Republic of China [PRC] - Stress - Entourage - Woods - Haldeman - Kissinger and Rogers The President's schedule - Georges J.R. Pompidou, Edward R.G. Heath and Willy Brandt Woods's schedule - California - Western White House - Marjorie P. Acker The President's schedule - Florida Woods's schedule The President's schedule - Phone calls - Birthdays - Value - Hospital greetings Carl Haller [?] Life expectancy - Men compared to women The President's schedule - White House staff - Leonard Garment and John C. Whitaker Woods left at 11:01 am. Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; [Unknown person(s)].