Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 15 › Conversation 015-150
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Richard G. Shoup
Monday, November 29, 1971 · 11:28 AM–11:49 AM ET · White House Telephone · 8 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to Representative Richard G. Shoup of Montana. This brief interaction served as an administrative request to establish a line of communication with the Congressman. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this connection.
- Richard G. Shoup
- White House operations
- Presidential communication
- Montana politics
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NARA Description
On November 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:49 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 015-150 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 15-150
Date: November 29, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:28 am and 11:49 am
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See also Conversation No. 625-21]
Request for a call to Richard G. ShoupAlso recorded on November 29, 1971
- 015-145 11:14 AM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John N. Mitchell talked on the telephone from 11:14 am to 11:16 am.
- 015-146 11:20 AM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 11:20 am.
- 015-147 11:20 AM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 11:25 am.
- 625-019 11:20 AM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 11:20 am.
- 625-020 11:20 AM · 25 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, William Thacher Lonstreth, White House operator, Clark MacGregor, and John J. Rooney met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 11:49 am.
- 015-148 11:25 AM · 33 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Clark MacGregor talked on the telephone from 11:25 am to 11:26 am.
- 015-149 11:27 AM · 35 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone from 11:27 am to 11:28 am.
- 625-021 11:28 AM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:28 am and 11:49 am.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 015-150, November 29, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/015-150 (accessed October 9, 2026).