Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 21 › Conversation 021-125
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on George P. Shultz
Tuesday, March 21, 1972 · 1:00 PM–1:03 PM ET · White House Telephone · 14 sec
A 14-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.
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Position in tape: 04:21:36 – 04:21:47
part B, 21:36
NARA Description
On March 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:00 pm and 1:03 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-125 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 21-125
Date: March 21, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:00 pm and 1:03 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The White House operator talked with the President.
[See Conversation No. 690-11B]
George P. Shultz’s location
-George MeanyTranscript (AI-generated)
No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.
Also recorded on March 21, 1972
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- 690-009 12:38 PM · 47 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:38 pm and 12:43 pm.
- 690-010 12:38 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:38 pm and 12:43 pm.
- 690-015 12:43 PM · 17 sec — United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:43 pm and 1:00 pm.
- 021-124 1:00 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:00 pm and 1:03 pm.
- 690-011 1:00 PM · 1 hr 15 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, White House operator, George P. Shultz, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:00 pm to 2:15 pm.
- 021-126 1:03 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon and George P. Shultz talked on the telephone from 1:03 pm to 1:09 pm.
- 021-127 1:09 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:09 pm and 11:19 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 021-125, March 21, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 646310250). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-125 (accessed November 1, 2026).