Tricia Nixon's Tour of the White House

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Tricia Nixon speaks with Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner on the Truman Balcony. The White House south grounds, the Washington Monument and Jefferson Monument are all visible from President Truman's 1947 addition to the house.
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The CBS tour moves through the Center Hall of the White House with Tricia Nixon.
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Tricia Nixon guides the CBS tour to the Yellow Oval Room. From this view, Mouth of the Delaware, Boston Harbor and The Forest, of the White House Collection, can be seen.
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Tricia Nixon guides the CBS tour to the West Sitting Hall of the White House. The great fan window of the room overlooks the Old Executive Office Building and the West Wing.
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Tricia Nixon guides the CBS tour to the President's Dining Room on the second floor of the White House. The room's wall covering is a Zuber walllpaper "Scenes of the American Revolution."
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Tricia Nixon stands in the President's Dining Room. The table is set with china from the Eisenhower administration.
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Tricia Nixon guides the CBS tour to the Queens' Bedroom. Above the fireplace hangs an English over-mantel mirror presented to President Truman by Queen Elizabeth II during her visit in 1951.
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Tricia Nixon and her sister, Julie Eisenhower, in the East Sitting Hall of the White House. Fourth of July by Grandma Moses hangs above the dresser.
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About this Gallery

Tricia Nixon’s tour of the White House was broadcast as a segment of the CBS news magazine “60 Minutes” on May 26, 1970. She guided reporter Harry Reasoner through the family living quarters and other rooms and halls of the White House not usually open to the public. Ms. Nixon told Reasoner that at a recent dinner in what was now the family dining room, guest Alice Roosevelt Longworth (daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt) suddenly exclaimed: “Why, this is where I had my appendix taken out!” The space had been a guest bedroom for much of the history of the White House until First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy converted it into a second floor private dining room in 1962.