Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 19 › Conversation 019-161

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Billy Graham

Saturday, January 29, 1972 · 9:05 AM ET · White House Telephone · 11 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation019-161 on Tape 19StartSaturday, January 29, 1972 at 9:05 AMEndSaturday, January 29, 1972 at 9:05 AMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 019-161 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417192641 ↗

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NARA Description

On January 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 9:05 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-161 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 19-161

Date: January 29, 1972
Time: 9:05 am
Location: White House Telephone

The White House operator talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 660-8A]

     Call from Julie Nixon Eisenhower

     Call to William F. (“Billy”) Graham

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Mr. President, I have Julie for you, and I wanted to tell you when you called the Reverend Graham.
He is registered there at the hotel, but the room and page didn't answer, so I left word.
All right?
Fine.
So here's Julie.

Also recorded on January 29, 1972

  • 019-159 8:35 AM · 13 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Idanell ("Nellie") (Brill) Connally, and John B. Connally talked on the telephone from 8:35 am to 8:50 am.
  • 660-004 8:35 AM · 13 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Idanell ("Nellie") (Brill) Connally met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:35 am to 8:50 am.
  • 019-160 8:50 AM · 29 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 8:50 am.
  • 660-005 8:50 AM · 27 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 8:50 am.
  • 660-006 8:50 AM · 8 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:50 am to 9:00 am.
  • 660-007 9:00 AM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan) Nixon, DeWitt Wallace, and Lila (Acheson) Wallace met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:00 am to 9:04 am.
  • 019-162 9:05 AM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 9:05 am to 9:08 am.
  • 660-008 9:05 AM · 3 hr 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Stephen B. Bull, Barbara H. Franklin, George P. Shultz, Herbert Stein, Marina von Neumann Whitman, White House photographer, Charles W. Colson, unknown person(s), White House operator, John N. Mitchell, Idanell ("Nellie") (Brill) Connally, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:05 am to 12:10 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 019-161, January 29, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417192641). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-161 (accessed November 2, 2026).