Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 25 › Conversation 025-075
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Margaret Chase Smith
Tuesday, June 20, 1972 · 12:46 PM ET · White House Telephone · 5 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Senator Margaret Chase Smith. This brief administrative interaction served as a logistical step to facilitate direct communication between the President and the Senator. No further substantive details regarding the purpose or outcome of the conversation were recorded in this brief exchange.
- Margaret Chase Smith
- White House operations
- Presidential communications
- Telephone logs
Audio
Transcript (AI-generated)
No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.
NARA Description
On June 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 12:46 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-075 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 25-75
Date: June 20, 1972
Time: 12:46 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 342-17]
Request for a call to Margaret Chase SmithAlso recorded on June 20, 1972
- 342-017 12:46 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 12:46 pm.
- 025-076 12:53 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Margaret Chase Smith talked on the telephone from 12:53 pm to 12:55 pm.
- 342-018 12:53 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Margaret Chase Smith met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:53 pm to 12:55 pm.
- 025-077 12:55 PM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:55 pm and 1:30 pm.
- 025-078 12:55 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:55 pm and 1:30 pm.
- 342-019 12:55 PM · 9 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 12:55 pm and 1:30 pm.
- 342-020 12:55 PM · 20 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 12:55 pm and 1:30 pm.
- 342-021 12:55 PM · 6 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 12:55 pm and 1:30 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 025-075, June 20, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/025-075 (accessed September 30, 2026).