Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 23 › Conversation 023-020
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Personal communication
Tuesday, April 18, 1972 · 1:46 PM–2:45 PM ET · White House Telephone · 8 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon contacted the White House operator to place a personal telephone call to his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox. The brief interaction served exclusively as a request for the operator to connect the President to his daughter. No further policy or administrative matters were discussed during this exchange.
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NARA Description
On April 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:46 pm and 2:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-020 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 23-20
Date: April 18, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:46 and 2:45 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See also Conversation No. 711-16]
Request for a call to Tricia Nixon CoxAlso recorded on April 18, 1972
- 711-015 1:48 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:48 pm to 1:50 pm.
- 711-016 1:50 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 2:45 pm.
- 711-017 1:50 PM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 2:45 pm.
- 023-021 2:45 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 2:45 pm to 2:49 pm.
- 711-018 2:45 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:45 pm to 2:49 pm.
- 711-019 3:02 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:02 pm to 3:03 pm.
- 711-020 3:03 PM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:03 pm and 3:09 pm.
- 711-021 3:09 PM · 27 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Earl L. Butz, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:09 pm to 3:37 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 023-020, April 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/023-020 (accessed October 12, 2026).