Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 29 › Conversation 029-037

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on White House Tapes

Monday, August 7, 1972 · 5:24 PM–7:50 PM ET · White House Telephone · 10 sec

ParticipantsNot recordedConversation029-037 on Tape 29StartMonday, August 7, 1972 at 5:24 PMEndMonday, August 7, 1972 at 7:50 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 029-037 ↗

A 10-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.

Audio

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NARA Description

On August 7, 1972, the recording device engaged at an unknown time between 5:24 pm and 7:50 pm, but the conversation appears to be blank. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 029-037 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 29-37

Date: August 7, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:24 pm and 7:50 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Machine noise renders portion of the tape unintelligible, but conversations might have taken
place.

     [Unintelligible]

Transcript (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 August 7, 1972

  • 763-026 4:25 PM · 20 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:25 pm and 4:33 pm.
  • 763-027 4:33 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:33 pm and 4:34 pm.
  • 764-001 4:33 PM · 56 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, Henry A. Kissinger, White House operator, and Anatoliy F. Dobrynin met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:33 pm to 5:21 pm.
  • 029-034 4:34 PM · 2 min — Henry A. Kissinger, Arthur F. Burns, and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:34 pm and 5:21 pm.
  • 029-035 4:34 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:34 pm and 5:23 pm.
  • 362-013 5:22 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:22 pm and 5:23 pm.
  • 362-014 5:22 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:22 pm and 6:23 pm.
  • 029-036 5:23 PM · 43 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield talked on the telephone from 5:23 pm to 5:24 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 029-037, August 7, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/029-037 (accessed October 30, 2026).