Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 25 › Conversation 025-068

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on William G. Milliken

Thursday, June 15, 1972 · 5:31 PM–5:46 PM ET · White House Telephone · 7 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation025-068 on Tape 25 (tape position 02:59:48–02:59:55)StartThursday, June 15, 1972 at 5:31 PMEndThursday, June 15, 1972 at 5:46 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 025-068 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon initiates a call to the White House operator to be connected with Governor William G. Milliken of Michigan. The primary purpose of this brief communication is to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and the Governor at his office in Lansing. No other substantive policy or political matters were discussed during this exchange.

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Mulligan of Michigan, please, and Lansing.

NARA Description

On June 15, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:31 pm and 5:46 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-068 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 25-68

Date: June 15, 1972
Time: Unknown time between 5:31 and 5:46 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 736-2A]

     Request for a call to William G. Milliken

Also recorded on June 15, 1972

  • 735-014 3:04 PM · 32 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Sultan ibn Abd al-Aziz Al Saud, Ibrahim al-Sowayel, Melvin R. Laird, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Camile Nowfel, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:04 pm to 3:45 pm.
  • 735-015 3:45 PM · 35 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:45 pm and 3:47 pm.
  • 735-016 3:47 PM · 31 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, Henry A. Kissinger, Rose Mary Woods, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:47 pm to 5:25 pm.
  • 736-001 3:47 PM — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:47 pm to 5:25 pm.
  • 736-002 5:25 PM — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, John D. Ehrlichman, White House operator, William G. Milliken, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:25 pm and 6:43 pm.
  • 025-069 5:46 PM · 8 min — President Richard M. Nixon and William G. Milliken talked on the telephone from 5:46 pm to 5:54 pm.
  • 736-003 6:43 PM — Alexander P. Butterfield and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 6:43 pm on June 15, 1972 and 8:07 am on June 16, 1972.
  • 736-004 6:43 PM — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 6:43 pm on June 15, 1972 and 8:07 am on June 16, 1972.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 025-068, June 15, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/025-068 (accessed September 30, 2026).