Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 20 › Conversation 020-005
Nixon phone call with McClory on 1972 election and birthday
Monday, January 31, 1972 · 3:57 PM–3:58 PM ET · White House Telephone · 40 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon initiated this brief telephone call to extend birthday greetings to Representative Robert McClory. The two briefly discussed McClory's upcoming birthday celebration and the Congressman's ongoing efforts to support the President's 1972 re-election campaign. The conversation concluded with a lighthearted exchange regarding the President's piano playing.
- Richard Nixon
- Robert McClory
- 1972 election
- birthday
- political outreach
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NARA Description
On January 31, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Robert McClory talked on the telephone from 3:57 pm to 3:58 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 20-5
Date: January 31, 1972
Time: 3:57 pm - 3:58 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Robert McClory.
[See Conversation No. 661-3B]
Greeting
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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 04/29/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[020-005-w001]
[Duration: 34s]
Robert McClory
-Birthday
-Best wishes from President
-Work on behalf of President’s re-election
-Details of birthday party
-Missing President’s piano playing
**********************************************************************Also recorded on January 31, 1972
- 661-003 3:51 PM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, Ronald L. Ziegler, White House operator, and Robert McClory met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:51 pm and 4:00 pm.
- 020-004 3:55 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:55 pm and 3:57 pm.
- 020-006 4:00 PM · 15 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:01 pm.
- 661-004 4:00 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:01 pm.
- 661-005 4:00 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:01 pm.
- 020-007 4:01 PM · 59 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Leslye A. Arsht talked on the telephone from 4:01 pm to 4:03 pm.
- 661-006 4:01 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Leslye A. Arsht met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:01 pm to 4:03 pm.
- 020-008 4:03 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:03 pm and 4:04 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 020-005, January 31, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-005 (accessed October 12, 2026).