Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 21 › Conversation 021-107

Nixon phone call with Cox on Personal communication and Family

Friday, March 17, 1972 · 8:17 PM–8:18 PM ET · White House Telephone

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia NixonConversation021-107 on Tape 21 (tape position 04:03:56–04:04:35)StartFriday, March 17, 1972 at 8:17 PMEndFriday, March 17, 1972 at 8:18 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 021-107 ↗

President Richard Nixon and his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, engaged in a brief telephone call. The conversation was personal in nature, as indicated by the withdrawal of the content under personal privacy exemptions. No substantive policy matters or administrative decisions were recorded during this exchange.

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This conversation has not yet been cut into its own clip, so the player above contains the full tape segment shared with neighbouring conversations. It begins about 04:03:56 into the tape and ends around 04:04:35.

No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.

On March 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 8:17 pm to 8:18 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-107 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 21-107

Date: March 17, 1972
Time: 8:17 pm - 8:18 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Tricia Nixon Cox talked with the President.

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Conversation 021-107, March 18, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-107 (accessed October 3, 2026).