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

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation025-075 on Tape 25 (tape position 03:13:27–03:13:33)StartTuesday, June 20, 1972 at 12:46 PMEndTuesday, June 20, 1972 at 12:46 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 025-075 ↗

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.

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No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.

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.

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 Smith
  • 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.

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).