Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 7 › Conversation 007-153
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Wilbur D. Mills
Monday, August 16, 1971 · 9:05 AM ET · White House Telephone · 5 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon instructed the White House operator to initiate a telephone call to Congressman Wilbur D. Mills. This brief exchange served solely as a logistical request to establish communication with the influential legislator. The conversation concluded immediately after the operator acknowledged the request to connect the President.
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NARA Description
On August 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 9:05 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 007-153 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 7-153
Date: August 16, 1971
Time: 9:05 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 564-3A]
Requested a call to Wilbur D. MillsAlso recorded on August 16, 1971
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- 564-003 8:55 AM · 1 hr 13 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:55 am to 10:10 am.
- 007-154 9:05 AM · 25 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 9:05 am.
- 007-155 9:50 AM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:50 am and 10:01 am.
- 007-156 9:50 AM · 10 sec — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:50 am and 10:01 am.
- 007-157 10:01 AM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Nelson A. Rockefeller talked on the telephone from 10:01 am to 10:10 am.
- 007-158 10:10 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:10 am and 11:48 am.
- 069-002 10:10 AM · 1 hr 16 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Vice President Spiro Agnew, and Cabinet officers, including William P. Rogers, John B. Connally, David Packard, John N. Mitchell, William T. Pecora, Clifford M. Hardin, Maurice H. Stans, James D. Hodgson, John G. Veneman, George W. Romney, David M. Kennedy, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, George P. Shultz, George H. W. Bush, John N. Irwin, II, Charls E. Walker, J. Philip Campbell, James M. Beggs, James T. Lynn, Laurence H. Silberman, Richard C. Van Dusen, Peter G. Peterson, Herbert G. Klein, Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., Raymond K. Price, Jr., Ronald L. Ziegler, Alexander P. Butterfield, Robert J. Brown, Paul W. McCracken, Caspar W. ("Cap") Weinberger, Arthur F. Burns, General George A. Lincoln, Herbert Stein, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Frank J. Shakespeare, and Stephen B. Bull, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House from 10:10 am to 11:27 am.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 007-153, August 16, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-153 (accessed October 12, 2026).