Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 13 › Conversation 013-001
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on White House Tapes
Tuesday, October 26, 1971 · 8:35 AM–10:15 AM ET · White House Telephone · 8 sec
AI Summary
This recording captures a failure of the White House telephone taping system, resulting in no substantial dialogue. The brief eight-second duration consists of an unidentified speaker providing a standard telephonic salutation before the audio cuts out. Consequently, no policy discussions, decisions, or historical developments took place during this interval.
- White House Tapes
- technical malfunction
- archival record
- telecommunications
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NARA Description
On October 26, 1971, the recording device engaged at an unknown time between 8:35 am and 10:15 am, but the conversation appears to be blank. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 013-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 013-001
Date: October 26, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:35 am and 10:15 am
Location: White House Telephone
The phone was engaged or malfunctioned.
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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 02/06/2019.]
[Unintelligible]
[013-001-w001]
[Duration: 8s]
[Previous tapes archival review indicated this was a conversation. Upon review of the digital
copy, archivists did not discern conversation. For the sake of clarity and continuity, this
conversation designation will not change.]
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542Also recorded on October 26, 1971
- 012-129 8:35 AM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:35 am and 8:49 am.
- 013-002 8:35 AM · 9 sec — the recording device engaged at an unknown time between 8:35 am and 10:15 am, but the conversation appears to be blank.
- 601-035 8:35 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:35 am and 8:49 am.
- 601-036 8:35 AM · 30 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, William P. Rogers, and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:35 am and 10:00 am.
- 012-130 8:49 AM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and William P. Rogers talked on the telephone from 8:49 am to 8:55 am.
- 602-001 9:01 AM · 1 hr 40 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Alexander P. Butterfield, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Manolo Sanchez, White House operator, Peter M. Flanigan, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:01 am and 11:09 am.
- 013-003 10:15 AM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 10:15 am to 10:16 am.
- 013-004 10:16 AM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:16 am and 10:17 am.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 013-001, October 26, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-001 (accessed October 16, 2026).