Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 10 › Conversation 010-012
Ziegler & Eisenhower on Family correspondence
Tuesday, September 28, 1971 · 4:23 PM–4:55 PM ET · White House Telephone · 12 sec
AI Summary
Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler speaks with Julie Nixon Eisenhower to coordinate communication regarding her father, President Richard Nixon. Ziegler informs Julie that the President is currently engaged in a meeting and promises to facilitate a return call once he becomes available. This brief exchange serves primarily to manage the President’s immediate schedule and family correspondence.
- Presidential scheduling
- White House communications
- Family correspondence
- Ronald Ziegler
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NARA Description
On September 28, 1971, Ronald L. Ziegler and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 4:23 pm to 4:55 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 010-012 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 10-12
Date: September 28, 1971
Time: 4:23 pm - 4:55 pm
Location: White House Telephone
Ronald L. Ziegler talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
[See Conversation No. 579-10B]
President's schedule
-Return callAlso recorded on September 28, 1971
- 077-007 3:15 PM · 38 min — President Richard M. Nixon and members of the Organization of African Unity, including Moktar Ould Daddah, Hamdi Ould Mouknass, Dr. Njoroge Mungai, Capt. Charles Sissoko, Elijah Mudenda, Jean Keutcha, Diallo Telli, Mohamed Sahnoun, William P. Rogers, Henry A. Kissinger, Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher, Jr., David D. Newsome, W. Marshall Wright, Robert Bruce, Alec G. Toumayan, and members of the press, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House from 3:15 pm to 3:52 pm.
- 579-008 3:59 PM · 13 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John C. Stennis, Gordon L. Allott, Leslie C. Arends, F. Edward Hébert, Melvin R. Laird, Clark MacGregor, William E. Timmons, Peter M. Flanigan, Ronald L. Ziegler, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:59 pm to 4:13 pm.
- 579-009 4:14 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:14 pm to 4:23 pm.
- 010-011 4:21 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone from 4:21 pm to 4:22 pm.
- 010-013 4:23 PM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:23 pm and 4:55 pm.
- 579-010 4:23 PM · 1 hr 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, Hugh Scott, Robert P. Griffin, Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends, Clark MacGregor, Ronald L. Ziegler, George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, and Charles W. Colson met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:23 pm and 5:21 pm.
- 010-014 4:55 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 4:55 pm to 4:57 pm.
- 579-011 5:23 PM · 28 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John L. McClellan, Eugene S. Cowen, Peter M. Flanigan, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:23 pm to 5:51 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 010-012, September 28, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/010-012 (accessed October 2, 2026).