Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 16 › Conversation 016-083

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Robert P. Griffin

Friday, December 10, 1971 · 4:42 PM–5:15 PM ET · White House Telephone · 8 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation016-083 on Tape 16 (tape position 03:14:02–03:14:10)StartFriday, December 10, 1971 at 4:42 PMEndFriday, December 10, 1971 at 5:15 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 016-083 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to Senator Robert P. Griffin. This brief administrative exchange served as the precursor to a direct consultation between the President and the Senator. No further substantive policy discussions were recorded during this connection.

Audio

Download MP3 · 0.2 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 Do not cite it as authoritative — verify against the audio and the finding aid.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

Senator Griffin?
Yes Mr. President.

NARA Description

On December 10, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:42 pm and 5:15 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 016-083 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 16-83

Date: December 10, 1971
Time: Unknown between 4:42 pm and 5:15 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 636-9A]

     Request for a call to Robert P. Griffin

Also recorded on December 10, 1971

  • 086-002 4:07 PM · 6 min — during the Signing of the Revenue Act of 1971 (HR 10847), President Richard M. Nixon, Russell B. Long, Wallace F. Bennett, Clinton P. Anderson, Herman E. Talmadge, Carl T. Curtis, Jack R. Miller, Robert P. Griffin, Wilbur D. Mills, John W. Byrnes, Jackson E. Betts, Charles J. Chamberlain, Herman T. Schneebeli, Al Ullman, James E. Smith, Larry Woodworth, Thomas Vail, John B. Martin, George P. Shultz, Clark MacGregor, William E. Timmons, and Warren McEleney met in the Cabinet Room of the White House from 4:07 pm to 4:18 pm.
  • 636-007 4:07 PM · 15 sec — unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:07 pm and 4:18 pm.
  • 636-008 4:18 PM · 52 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and John B. Connally met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:18 pm to 5:11 pm.
  • 016-080 4:20 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Walter H. Annenberg, and John B. Connally talked on the telephone from 4:20 pm to 4:27 pm.
  • 016-081 4:27 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and John B. Connally talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:27 pm and 4:36 pm.
  • 016-082 4:36 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Arthur F. Burns talked on the telephone from 4:36 pm to 4:42 pm.
  • 636-009 5:11 PM · 24 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:11 pm to 5:34 pm.
  • 016-084 5:15 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Robert P. Griffin, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 5:15 pm to 5:17 pm.

All 75 conversations from December 10, 1971 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 016-083, December 10, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/016-083 (accessed October 5, 2026).