Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 21 › Conversation 021-099
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Robert H. Finch
Thursday, March 16, 1972 · 11:18 PM–11:19 PM ET · White House Telephone · 8 sec
An 8-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.
Audio
This clip of the conversation was cut from the tape by the National Archives (catalog record ↗).
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Position in tape (archivists' log): 03:53:11 – 03:53:20
part B, 1:49:50
NARA Description
On March 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:18 pm and 11:19 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-099 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 21-99
Date: March 16, 1972
Time: Unknown between 11:18 pm and 11:19 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
Request for a call to Robert H. FinchTranscript (AI-generated)
No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: Nixon asks the White House operator to connect him to Robert Finch.
Also recorded on March 16, 1972
- 021-092 10:31 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 10:31 pm to 10:38 pm.
- 021-093 10:40 PM · 8 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, and [Dwight] David Eisenhower, II talked on the telephone from 10:40 pm to 10:49 pm.
- 021-094 10:57 PM · 10 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 10:57 pm to 11:07 pm.
- 021-095 11:07 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:07 pm and 11:12 pm.
- 021-096 11:12 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 11:12 pm.
- 021-097 11:12 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 11:12 pm.
- 021-098 11:13 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman talked on the telephone from 11:13 pm to 11:18 pm.
- 021-100 11:19 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Robert H. Finch talked on the telephone from 11:19 pm to 11:26 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 021-099, March 16, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 646310198). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-099 (accessed November 2, 2026).