Nixon White House Tapes ›Tape 25 › Conversation 025-081

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Clark MacGregor

Tuesday, June 20, 1972 · 1:39 PM–1:45 PM ET · White House Telephone ·9 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  White House operatorConversation025-081 onTape 25 (tape position 03:24:43–03:24:52)StartTuesday, June 20, 1972 at 1:39 PMEndTuesday, June 20, 1972 at 1:45 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 025-081 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Clark MacGregor. This brief administrative interaction served to facilitate communication between the President and the head of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. No further substantive discussion was recorded during this exchange.

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NARA Description

On June 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:39 pm and 1:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-081 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 25-81

Date: June 20, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:39 and 1:45 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 342-24B]

     Request for a call to Clark MacGregor

Also recorded on June 20, 1972

  • 025-079 1:30 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Hugh Scott talked on the telephone from 1:30 pm to 1:35 pm.
  • 342-023 1:30 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Hugh Scott met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:30 pm to 1:35 pm.
  • 342-024 1:35 PM · 28 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Joseph Trerotola, White House operator, unknown person(s), and Clark MacGregor met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:35 pm and 2:10 pm.
  • 025-080 1:38 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Joseph Trerotola talked on the telephone from 1:38 pm to 1:39 pm.
  • 025-082 1:39 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:39 pm and 1:45 pm.
  • 025-083 1:45 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Clark MacGregor talked on the telephone from 1:45 pm to 1:49 pm.
  • 025-084 2:10 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:10 pm and 2:16 pm.
  • 342-025 2:10 PM · 7 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 2:10 pm and 2:16 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 025-081, 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/025-081 (accessed September 18, 2026).