Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 19 › Conversation 019-146
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Joanne Goldwater Ross
Friday, January 28, 1972 · 1:24 PM–1:35 PM ET · White House Telephone · 27 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an urgent personal call to Joanne Goldwater Ross, the daughter of Senator Barry Goldwater. He requested the operator reach her in Arizona to extend well-wishes prior to her impending wedding ceremony. The conversation functioned solely as a logistical request to facilitate this brief outreach.
- Joanne Goldwater Ross
- Barry Goldwater
- White House operations
- personal communications
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NARA Description
On January 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:24 pm and 1:35 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-146 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 19-146
Date: January 28, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:24 pm and 1:35 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 659-8]
Request for call to Joanne Goldwater Ross
-Barry M. Goldwater
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Privacy]
[Duration: 4s ]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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- 659-005 12:21 PM · 13 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Myles J. Ambrose, John N. Mitchell, Paul A. Volcker, John D. Ehrlichman, Egil ("Bud") Krogh, Jr., Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe, Geoffrey C. Shepard, Mark W. Alger, John J. Caulfield, Ronald L. Ziegler, White House photographer, Stephen B. Bull, Elaine (Miller) Ambrose, Myles J. Ambrose, Jr., Kevin Ambrose, Elise Ambrose, Nora Ambrose, Kathleen Ambrose, and Christopher Ambrose met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:21 pm to 12:34 pm.
- 659-006 12:34 PM · 48 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, Stephen B. Bull, Max M. Fisher, Yitzhak Rabin, Jeremiah Kaplan, Herbert Stein, Lawrence Y. Goldberg, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:34 pm to 1:21 pm.
- 659-007 1:21 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:21 pm and 1:35 pm.
- 019-147 1:35 PM · 15 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 1:35 pm.
- 659-008 1:35 PM · 12 min — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 1:35 pm.
- 659-009 1:35 PM · 8 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:35 pm and 2:24 pm.
- 659-010 2:24 PM · 27 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:24 pm to 2:51 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 019-146, January 28, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-146 (accessed October 12, 2026).