President Nixon held a brief communication with the White House operator to facilitate an outgoing call. This interaction served a purely administrative purpose to connect the President with another party. No substantive policy discussions or decision-making processes were recorded during this brief exchange.
On December 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:00 am and 9:07 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 629-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 629-2 Date: December 6, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:00 am and 9:07 am Location: Oval Office The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 16-11]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.