Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 6 › Conversation 006-077

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Anatoliy Dobrynin

Thursday, July 1, 1971 · 9:53 AM–2:11 PM ET · White House Telephone · 8 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation006-077 on Tape 6 (tape position 01:23:14–01:23:21)StartThursday, July 1, 1971 at 9:53 AMEndThursday, July 1, 1971 at 2:11 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 006-077 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon directs the White House operator to place a telephone call to Soviet Ambassador Anatoliy F. Dobrynin. The brief interaction serves as a logistical bridge to initiate high-level diplomatic communication. No substantive policy discussions occur during this exchange as the operator confirms the request to connect the President with the Soviet embassy.

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You get me Ambassador Dobrynin at the Soviet Embassy, please.
Be glad to, sir.

NARA Description

On July 1, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:53 am and 2:11 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 006-077 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 6-77

Date: July 1, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:53 am and 2:11 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 261-28]

     Call to Anatoliy F. Dobrynin

Also recorded on July 1, 1971

  • 534-014 8:41 AM · 29 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:41 am to 8:45 am.
  • 534-002 8:45 AM · 1 hr 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, Henry A. Kissinger [?], and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:45 am to 9:52 am.
  • 006-076 9:53 AM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 9:53 am.
  • 261-028 9:53 AM · 24 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 9:53 am and 2:11 pm.
  • 261-029 9:53 AM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:53 am and 2:11 pm.
  • 534-003 9:54 AM · 31 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:54 am to 10:26 am.
  • 534-004 10:26 AM · 16 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:26 am and 10:27 am.
  • 534-005 10:27 AM · 1 hr 22 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Charles W. Colson, John D. Ehrlichman, Manolo Sanchez, Henry A. Kissinger, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:27 am to 11:49 am.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 006-077, July 1, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/006-077 (accessed October 5, 2026).