Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 8 › Conversation 008-025

Nixon phone call with Cox on Personal communication and Family

Tuesday, August 17, 1971 · 2:25 PM–2:28 PM ET · White House Telephone · 3 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Cox, Tricia NixonConversation008-025 on Tape 8 (tape position 00:41:01–00:44:02)StartTuesday, August 17, 1971 at 2:25 PMEndTuesday, August 17, 1971 at 2:28 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 008-025 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon held a brief telephone conversation with his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, facilitated by a White House operator. The discussion was personal in nature and lacked any substantive policy or administrative content. No official decisions or actions were taken during this exchange.

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yeah which president had patricia calling you all right fine there you are

NARA Description

On August 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 2:25 pm to 2:28 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-025 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 8-25

Date: August 17, 1971
Time: 2:25 pm - 2:28 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

Tricia Nixon Cox talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 566-10]

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[Duration: 2m 53s ]

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Also recorded on August 17, 1971

  • 566-008 2:12 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:12 pm and 2:23 pm.
  • 566-009 2:23 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:23 pm to 2:25 pm.
  • 566-010 2:25 PM · 11 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:25 pm to 2:28 pm.
  • 008-120 2:28 PM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:28 pm and 4:12 pm.
  • 566-011 2:28 PM · 58 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:28 pm and 2:42 pm.
  • 566-012 2:42 PM · 10 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:42 pm to 2:45 pm.
  • 566-013 2:45 PM · 46 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:45 pm and 2:55 pm.
  • 566-014 2:55 PM · 24 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:55 pm to 3:23 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 008-025, August 17, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-025 (accessed October 22, 2026).