Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

#OTD 11/29/1972 President Nixon met in the White House Cabinet Room with Black administration officials including Special Assistant Robert Brown, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Donald L. Miller, United States delegation to the United Nations member Jewel LaFontant, Assistant Secretary of the Navy James E. Johnson, Women’s Bureau Director Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, and others. (Image: WHPO-D1039-21A)

#OTD 11/27/1973 In a courtroom demonstration for Watergate investigation prosecution lawyers, President Nixon’s secretary Rose Mary Woods demonstrated how she could have accidentally erased segments of tape recordings by hitting the record foot control pedal while leaning back to answer the phone.

Photographs of her demonstrating at her White House desk were shared in court the following day. These photographs led to the coining of the phrase the “Rose Mary Stretch.”

(Images: E1874-10A & 16A)

#OTD 11/26/1972 President Nixon, Mrs. Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia and Edward Cox, and Nixon family friend Charles “Bebe” Rebozo had dinner at Trader Vic’s at the Plaza Hotel, then the presidential party attended a performance of “Much Ado About Nothing” at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. After the play, President Nixon stopped to meet some of the people in the crowd that had gathered outside the theatre.

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#OTD 11/25/1972 President Nixon visited Cardinal Terrence Cooke, Archbishop of New York, before visiting Rockefeller Center. Later, the Nixon Family dined at La Grenouille, where they took pictures with surprised diners, and viewed the department store window displays at Lord & Taylor, Macy’s, and Gimbel’s. (Images: WHPO-D1024-05, 13, 23, 31)

#OTD 11/22/1971 First Lady Pat Nixon and Second Lady Judy Agnew met children, parents, and educators at the Kennedy Center Symphony program for 4th grade children. Washington, DC. (Images: WHPO-7840-07A, 10A, 22A, 28A)

#OTD 11/20/1971 President Nixon met the graduating class of Wyoming High School at the steps of the White House south entrance. The class was visiting Washington, DC from Wyoming, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. (Image: WHPO-7837-34A)

#OTD 11/19/1970 First Lady Pat Nixon and White House chefs planned a cornucopia display for the Thanksgiving turkey. (Image: WHPO-5094-07)

#OTD 11/18/1970 First Lady Pat Nixon, former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, and Julie Eisenhower attended a performance of “A Salute to American Music” at the newly-restored Ford’s Theatre. The theater reopened in 1968 after the National Park Service spent four years returning an essentially empty shell to the way it would have looked when President Lincoln was shot there in 1865. (Image: WHPO-5090-07)

#OTD 11/15/1973 President Nixon met in the Oval Office with Long Boret, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Khmer Republic in Cambodia.

Also present were Um Sim, Ambassador from the Khmer Republic to the United States, Maj. Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to the President, and State Department interpreter A. Jose de Seabra.

Long Boret was later arrested and executed by the Khmer Rouge regime in April 1975.

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#OTD 11/14/1960 Vice President Richard M. Nixon and President-elect John F. Kennedy met at the Key Biscayne Hotel in Florida to discuss the transfer of power to the new presidential administration. (Image: NAID 27580145)