Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 18 › Conversation 018-025
Nixon phone call with Eisenhower on Robert H. Abplanalp and American Sportsman
Sunday, January 9, 1972 · 4:42 PM–4:43 PM ET · White House Telephone · 31 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon and his daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, held a brief telephone conversation to discuss personal matters and scheduling logistics. They touched upon a television appearance involving Robert H. Abplanalp on the program 'American Sportsman' that featured blue marlin fishing. The discussion also addressed administrative coordination regarding the President's upcoming departure for Andrews Air Force Base.
- Julie Nixon Eisenhower
- Robert H. Abplanalp
- American Sportsman
- Television
- Travel logistics
Audio
NARA Description
On January 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 4:42 pm to 4:43 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-025 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 18-25
Date: January 9, 1972
Time: 4:42 pm - 4:43 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
[This is the original beginning of conversation No. 018-025, which has been merged with
conversation 018-024.]
[See Conversation No. 312-16]
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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 12/21/2017.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[018-025-w001]
[Duration: 29s]
Television program
-Robert H. Abplanalp
-American Sportsman
-Blue Marlin fishing
Schedule
-Departure for Andrews Air Force Base
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Also recorded on January 9, 1972
- 018-022 1:35 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 1:35 pm.
- 018-023 2:56 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Nora L. Moore talked on the telephone from 2:56 pm to 2:57 pm.
- 312-014 2:56 PM · 1 hr 8 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Nora L. Moore met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:56 pm to 2:57 pm.
- 018-024 2:57 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:57 pm and 4:42 pm.
- 312-015 2:57 PM · 45 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:57 pm and 4:42 pm.
- 312-033 2:57 PM · 31 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:57 pm and 4:42 pm.
- 312-016 4:42 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:42 pm to 4:43 pm.
- 312-017 4:43 PM · 43 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:43 pm and 4:46 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 018-025, January 9, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/018-025 (accessed November 13, 2026).