Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 37 › Conversation 037-019

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Patrick J. Buchanan

Thursday, March 1, 1973 · 4:01 PM–4:42 PM ET · White House Telephone · 13 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation037-019 on Tape 37StartThursday, March 1, 1973 at 4:01 PMEndThursday, March 1, 1973 at 4:42 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 037-019 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417195183 ↗

A 13-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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NARA Description

On March 1, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:01 pm and 4:42 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-019 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 37-19

Date: March 1, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:01 pm and 4:42 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 416-10]

       Request for a call to Patrick J. Buchanan

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Also recorded on March 1, 1973

  • 866-023 3:30 PM · 5 min — Unknown person(s) and United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 3:30 pm on March 1, 1973 and 11:00 am on March 2, 1973.
  • 416-007 3:35 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:35 pm to 3:36 pm.
  • 416-008 3:36 PM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:36 pm and 4:00 pm.
  • 416-009 4:00 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:00 pm to 4:01 pm.
  • 416-010 4:01 PM · 9 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 4:01 pm and 4:42 pm.
  • 037-020 4:42 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Peter J. Brennan talked on the telephone from 4:42 pm to 4:44 pm.
  • 416-011 4:42 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Peter J. Brennan met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:42 pm to 4:44 pm.
  • 037-021 4:44 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:44 pm and 4:46 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 037-019, March 1, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417195183). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-019 (accessed November 12, 2026).