Nixon White House Tapes ›Tape 22 › Conversation 022-043

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Clark MacGregor

Wednesday, March 29, 1972 · 12:18 PM–3:07 PM ET · White House Telephone ·7 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  White House operatorConversation022-043 onTape 22 (tape position 01:53:07–01:53:15)StartWednesday, March 29, 1972 at 12:18 PMEndWednesday, March 29, 1972 at 3:07 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 022-043 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Clark MacGregor, who was serving as his Congressional liaison at the time. The brief exchange served solely to initiate this administrative request. No other substantive policy discussions or decisions were recorded during this connection.

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Mr. McGregor please.
Thank you sir.

NARA Description

On March 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:18 pm and 3:07 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 022-043 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 22-43

Date: March 29, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:18 pm and 3:07 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 328-17]

     Request for call to Clark MacGregor

Also recorded on March 29, 1972

  • 022-042 12:17 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 12:17 pm to 12:18 pm.
  • 328-012 12:57 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm.
  • 328-013 12:57 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Luis Echeverria Alvarez, and Gen. William Westmoreland met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm.
  • 328-014 12:57 PM · 14 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, Luis Echeverria Alvarez, Gen. William Westmoreland, Norman Vincent Peale, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm.
  • 328-015 12:57 PM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm.
  • 328-016 12:57 PM · 22 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm.
  • 328-017 12:57 PM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm.
  • 328-018 12:57 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm.

All 21 conversations from March 29, 1972 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 022-043, March 29, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-043 (accessed September 18, 2026).