Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 12 › Conversation 012-099

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Charles W. Sandman Jr.

Saturday, October 23, 1971 · 8:30 AM–9:44 AM ET · White House Telephone · 13 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation012-099 on Tape 12 (tape position 03:55:48–03:56:00)StartSaturday, October 23, 1971 at 8:30 AMEndSaturday, October 23, 1971 at 9:44 AMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 012-099 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to U.S. Representative Charles W. Sandman, Jr. The primary purpose of this brief exchange was to facilitate communication between the President and the congressman. No further substantive policy matters were discussed during this initial connection phase.

Audio

Download MP3 · 0.3 MB

Transcript (AI-generated)

This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Names and numbers are often wrong; speakers are not identified. Do not cite it as authoritative — verify against the audio and the finding aid.

Download transcript (.txt) · JSON data

Thank you, sir.

NARA Description

On October 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:30 am and 9:44 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 012-099 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 012-099

Date: October 23, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:30 am and 9:44 am

       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542

Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 601-7A]

     Request for call to Charles W. Sandman. Jr.

Also recorded on October 23, 1971

  • 601-002 8:30 AM · 31 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:30 am and 8:52 am.
  • 601-003 8:30 AM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:30 am and 8:52 am.
  • 601-004 8:30 AM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:30 am and 8:52 am.
  • 601-005 8:30 AM · 19 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:30 am and 8:52 am.
  • 601-006 9:18 AM · 16 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:18 am and 9:35 am.
  • 601-007 9:36 AM · 1 hr 30 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, White House operator, Stephen B. Bull, Charles W. Sandman, Jr., Manolo Sanchez, unknown person(s), Warren E. Hearnes, Marvin Mandel, Dale Bumpers, William G. Milliken, Stanley K. Hathaway, David Hall, Cyril Brickfield, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:36 am to 11:09 am.
  • 012-100 9:44 AM · 59 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Sandman, Jr. talked on the telephone from 9:44 am to 9:45 am.
  • 012-101 9:45 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:45 am and 11:18 am.

All 42 conversations from October 23, 1971 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 012-099, October 23, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/012-099 (accessed October 12, 2026).