Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 19 › Conversation 019-001

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on White House Tapes

Tuesday, January 18, 1972 · 4:12 PM–5:23 PM ET · White House Telephone · 52 sec

ParticipantsNot recordedConversation019-001 on Tape 19StartTuesday, January 18, 1972 at 4:12 PMEndTuesday, January 18, 1972 at 5:23 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 019-001 ↗

This recording captures a telephone connection involving the White House taping system that contains no audible content. Due to the absence of a transcript and the brevity of the segment, no substantive discussions or policy decisions occurred during this interaction. The file remains an empty or non-historical entry within the presidential archives.

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No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.

On January 18, 1972, the recording device engaged at an unknown time between 4:12 pm and 5:23 pm, but the conversation appears to be blank. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-001 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 19-1

Date: January 18, 1972
Time: Unknown between 4:12 pm and 5:23 pm
Location: White House Telephone

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Non-historical]
[Duration: 16s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Conversation 019-001, January 18, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-001 (accessed September 29, 2026).