Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 9 › Conversation 009-091

Connally phone call on Personnel and Administrative coordination

Monday, September 20, 1971 · 10:50 AM–11:23 AM ET · White House Telephone · 10 sec

ParticipantsConnally, John B.; White House operatorConversation009-091 on Tape 9 (tape position 02:29:46–02:29:56)StartMonday, September 20, 1971 at 10:50 AMEndMonday, September 20, 1971 at 11:23 AMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 009-091 ↗

Treasury Secretary John B. Connally initiates a brief administrative call to locate a staff member, identified as Ms. Sakala. Upon learning she is unavailable, Connally abruptly cancels his request and shifts the conversation to addressing a matter involving an individual named Mr. Petty. The exchange concludes without further substantive policy discussion or follow-up action.

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Hello?
Mr. Secretary?
Yes.
Ms. Sakala is out of the office.
Yeah, okay.
No, just, that's all right.
Forget it.
We got Mr.
Petty.
All right.
Thank you.
Uh-huh.

On September 20, 1971, John B. Connally and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:50 am and 11:23 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 009-091 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 9-91

Date: September 20, 1971
Time: Unknown between 10:50 am and 11:23 am
Location: White House Telephone

John B. Connally talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 576-8D]

     Rose M. Cicala’s location
  • 576-008 9:52 AM · 1 hr 33 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, John B. Connally, Manolo Sanchez, White House operator, John R. Petty, Romana A. Banuelos, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:52 am to 11:27 am.
  • 009-088 10:03 AM · 11 sec — John B. Connally and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:03 am and 10:50 am.
  • 009-089 10:50 AM · 16 sec — John B. Connally and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:50 am and 11:23 am.
  • 009-090 10:50 AM · 3 min — John B. Connally and John R. Petty talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:50 am and 11:23 am.
  • 009-092 11:23 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:23 am and 11:59 am.
  • 576-009 11:27 AM · 55 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:27 am and 11:32 am.
  • 576-010 11:32 AM · 17 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry G. Cisneros, Peter W. Cook, Robert A. Dey, Antoinette Ford, Stephen J. Gage, Franklin R. Gannon, John S. Grinalds, Glen R. Kendall, John M. Maurice, Terence D. McCann, Rogert C. McFarlane, Michael S. Noling, Deanell Reece, Martin E. Seneca, Jr., Richard E. Stephenson, Brandon W. Sweitzer, Arthur E. Dewey, Frederick Tentschler, Frederic V. Malek, Stephen B. Bull, and Oliver F. ("Ollie") Atkins met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:32 am to 11:47 am.
  • 576-011 11:47 AM · 13 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, John N. Mitchell, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:47 am and 12:01 pm.

Conversation 009-091, September 20, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/009-091 (accessed October 12, 2026).