On October 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Nellie L. Yates talked on the telephone from 8:54 pm to 8:55 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 010-105 of the White House Tapes.
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Hello.
Mr. President, I have Mrs. Yates for you.
Yeah.
President.
Hello.
Hello, Mr. President.
I understand you're on your way to Europe.
Yes, sir, who told you that?
Well, I heard you're having a party for you tonight.
Yes, sir, they were.
Well, I hope you have a great time.
You been there before?
I went over one time for five weeks.
Yeah.
And this time I'm going for three weeks.
Well, that's great.
Well, you just have a great time.
Oh, I will.
And I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Are you going to fly?
Yes, I'm flying over tomorrow night.
I'm going over to London.
Right.
And from there I'm going over to Zurich.
Right.
I'm traveling in Austria and a little bit in northern Italy.
Right.
And back to...
I'm going down to Morocco and then down to Portugal from there.
Oh, you're going to have a great trip.
Oh, won't it be nice?
Those are nice places.
I haven't had a vacation in a good while, and I'm really looking forward to it.
Well, fine.
You just have a great time now.
All right.
Are you working on your speech?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It's coming along fine.
Is it?
All right.
Fine.
Well, you just have a great time now.
Thank you very much, Mr. President.
Bye.
Bye.