Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 23 › Conversation 023-023

Nixon phone call with MacGregor

Tuesday, April 18, 1972 · 5:00 PM–5:01 PM ET · White House Telephone · 12 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); MacGregor, ClarkConversation023-023 on Tape 23StartTuesday, April 18, 1972 at 5:00 PMEndTuesday, April 18, 1972 at 5:01 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 023-023 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417193331 ↗

A 12-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.

Audio

Download MP3 · 0.3 MB

NARA Description

On April 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Clark MacGregor talked on the telephone from 5:00 pm to 5:01 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 023-023 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 23-23

Date: April 18, 1972
Time: 5:00-5:01 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Clark MacGregor.

[See also Conversation No. 712-4A]

     MacGregor's schedule
         -Location
         -Meeting with the President

Transcript (AI-generated)

This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Names and numbers are often wrong; speakers are not identified. Do not cite it as authoritative — verify against the audio and the finding aid.

Download transcript (.txt) · JSON data

Click a timestamp to play from that point; the page address then links to that moment (e.g. #t=125).

Hello.

Yes, Mr. President.

How are you, sir?

Are you in your office?

Yes, sir.

Oh, come on over a minute.

We can talk a minute.

I'll be right there.

Also recorded on April 18, 1972

023-022 4:56 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:56 pm and 5:00 pm.
712-002 4:56 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:56 pm and 5:00 pm.
712-003 4:56 PM · 38 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:56 pm and 5:00 pm.
712-004 4:56 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Clark MacGregor, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:56 pm and 5:00 pm.
712-005 5:01 PM · 24 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:01 pm and 5:03 pm.
712-006 5:01 PM · 30 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Manolo Sanchez, Clark MacGregor, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:01 pm and 5:33 pm.
023-024 5:32 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:32 pm and 5:33 pm.
712-007 5:32 PM · 18 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:32 pm and 5:33 pm.

All 57 conversations from April 18, 1972 →

Nixon with unidentified visitors in his EOB office on Camp David and Christmas December 10, 1971 · 1 min
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Marvin L. Esch August 6, 1971 · 3 min
Nixon & Haldeman on Henry Kissinger and Charles H. Percy October 12, 1971 · 3 min
Nixon phone call with Butterfield on Billy Graham and Takeo Fukuda September 9, 1971 · 13 min
Woods phone call on Pat Nixon October 27, 1971 · 1 min
Nixon, Haldeman & Colson on Camp David October 19, 1972 · 1 min

Cite this conversation

Conversation 023-023, April 18, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417193331). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/023-023 (accessed November 2, 2026).