President Nixon initiates a request for the White House operator to place a telephone call to Treasury Secretary John B. Connally. This administrative interaction serves as a bridge to a subsequent conversation between the President and his Treasury Secretary. The call is a routine logistical step in the President's daily schedule of high-level communications.
On January 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:39 pm and 2:44 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 018-106 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 18-106 Date: January 10, 1972 Time: Unknown between 2:39 pm and 2:44 pm Location: White House Telephone The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 313-8] Request for a call to John B. Connally
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