Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 15 › Conversation 015-168
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Clark MacGregor
Monday, November 29, 1971 · 5:45 PM ET · White House Telephone · 7 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon contacted the White House operator to initiate a telephone call to Clark MacGregor. The brief exchange served as a routine administrative request to connect the President with his Congressional Relations director. No further policy discussions or substantive developments occurred during this brief operator-assisted connection.
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NARA Description
On November 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 5:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 015-168 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 15-168
Date: November 29, 1971
Time: 5:45 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See also Conversation No. 306-14B]
Request for a call to Clark MacGregorAlso recorded on November 29, 1971
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- 306-012 5:39 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:39 pm and 5:43 pm.
- 306-013 5:39 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:39 pm and 5:43 pm.
- 306-014 5:39 PM · 24 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:39 pm and 6:14 pm.
- 015-167 5:43 PM · 25 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 5:43 pm to 5:44 pm.
- 015-169 5:45 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:45 pm and 5:47 pm.
- 015-170 5:47 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and William E. Timmons talked on the telephone from 5:47 pm to 5:50 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 015-168, 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/015-168 (accessed October 12, 2026).