Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 34 › Conversation 034-025
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Ronald L. Ziegler
Tuesday, December 5, 1972 · 2:58 PM ET · White House Telephone · 11 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon contacted the White House operator to issue a directive regarding his staff. He requested that Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler be summoned to the Executive Office Building for a meeting. This brief exchange served solely to facilitate the coordination of the President's schedule with a key advisor.
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NARA Description
On December 5, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 2:58 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 034-025 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 34-25
Date: December 5, 1972
Time: 2:58 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 386-1C]
Request for a meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler
-Executive Office Building [EOB]Also recorded on December 5, 1972
- 034-022 1:09 PM · 45 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone from 1:09 pm to 1:10 pm.
- 387-010 1:10 PM · 23 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:10 pm and 2:00 pm.
- 387-011 1:10 PM · 28 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:10 pm and 2:00 pm.
- 387-012 1:10 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:10 pm and 2:00 pm.
- 034-023 2:00 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:00 pm and 2:56 pm.
- 386-001 2:00 PM · 3 hr 30 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, Stephen B. Bull, Ronald L. Ziegler, Manolo Sanchez, John B. Connally, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:00 pm and 6:20 pm.
- 387-013 2:00 PM · 44 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm.
- 034-024 2:56 PM · 42 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone from 2:56 pm to 2:57 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 034-025, December 5, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/034-025 (accessed October 27, 2026).