President Nixon held a brief, routine interaction with the White House operator to facilitate telephonic communications. This engagement served the administrative purpose of connecting the President to external parties through the White House switchboard. No substantive policy discussions or major developments were recorded during this brief administrative exchange.
On June 22, 1972, 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 12:15 pm and 12:56 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 344-021 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 344-21 Date: June 22, 1972 Time: Unknown between 12:15 and 12:56 pm Location: Old Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 25-122]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.