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.


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