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
AI Summary
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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Audio
NARA Description
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.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 19-1 Date: January 18, 1972 Time: Unknown between 4:12 pm and 5:23 pm Location: White House Telephone ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Non-historical] [Duration: 16s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 **********************************************************************
Transcript (AI-generated)
No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The recording contains no intelligible speech, consisting only of silence and line static/hum.
Also recorded on January 18, 1972
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- 018-103 2:40 PM · 19 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:40 pm and 3:28 pm.
- 018-104 3:28 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John B. Connally talked on the telephone from 3:28 pm to 3:29 pm.
- 650-014 3:42 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:42 pm and 3:45 pm.
- 650-015 3:45 PM · 7 sec — United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at 3:45 pm.
- 018-105 4:12 PM · 40 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 4:12 pm.
- 019-002 5:23 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 5:23 pm.
- 019-003 6:55 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 6:55 pm and 7:35 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 019-001, January 18, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417192321). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-001 (accessed November 13, 2026).