Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 4 › Conversation 004-033

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Ronald L. Ziegler

Friday, June 4, 1971 · 3:10 PM–3:11 PM ET · White House Telephone · 7 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation004-033 on Tape 4 (tape position 02:02:51–02:02:57)StartFriday, June 4, 1971 at 3:10 PMEndFriday, June 4, 1971 at 3:11 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 004-033 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an urgent telephone call to Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler. The brief administrative exchange served to initiate communication between the President and his press office regarding a scheduled trip. No further substantive policy discussions occurred during this brief request for a connection.

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Please.
Segler, please.
Take the trip.

NARA Description

On June 4, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:10 pm and 3:11 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 004-033 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 4-33

Date: June 4, 1971
Time: Unknown between 3:10 pm and 3:11 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 512-23]

     Call to Ronald L. Ziegler

Also recorded on June 4, 1971

  • 255-005 2:54 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:54 pm and 3:10 pm.
  • 512-020 3:10 PM · 38 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:10 pm and 3:11 pm.
  • 512-021 3:10 PM · 48 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:10 pm and 3:11 pm.
  • 512-022 3:10 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:10 pm and 3:11 pm.
  • 512-023 3:10 PM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:10 pm and 3:11 pm.
  • 004-034 3:11 PM · 49 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 3:11 pm to 3:12 pm.
  • 512-024 3:11 PM · 56 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:11 pm to 3:12 pm.
  • 512-025 3:14 PM · 20 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Henry A. Kissinger, Dwight L. Chapin, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:14 pm to 3:35 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 004-033, June 4, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/004-033 (accessed September 27, 2026).