Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 25 › Conversation 025-091
Nixon phone call with Haldeman on John N. Mitchell and Technical audio issues
Tuesday, June 20, 1972 · 7:52 PM–7:59 PM ET · White House Telephone · 8 min
AI Summary
President Nixon and H. R. Haldeman engaged in a brief telephone conversation primarily characterized by technical audio issues. Despite the presence of significant background noise and unintelligible segments, the discussion involved logistical coordination regarding a separate call between the President and John N. Mitchell. No substantive policy decisions or actionable directives could be discerned from the recorded transcript.
- H. R. Haldeman
- John N. Mitchell
- White House communications
- Technical audio issues
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NARA Description
On June 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 7:52 pm to 7:59 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-091 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 25-91
Date: June 20, 1972
Time: 7:52-7:59 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[See Conversation No. 344-7]
Haldeman's location
President's call to John N. Mitchell
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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 10/31/2017.]
[Unintelligible]
[025-091-w001]
[Duration: 7m 48s]
[This portion of the tape is mostly tape noise with some muffled background conversation.]
*****************************************************************Also recorded on June 20, 1972
- 025-089 4:09 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Patrick J. Buchanan talked on the telephone from 4:09 pm to 4:16 pm.
- 344-004 4:14 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:14 pm and 4:35 pm.
- 344-005 4:14 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:14 pm and 4:35 pm.
- 344-006 4:35 PM · 35 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:35 pm to 5:25 pm.
- 025-090 7:36 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:36 pm and 7:52 pm.
- 344-007 7:52 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 7:52 pm to 7:59 pm.
- 025-092 7:59 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:59 pm and 8:04 pm.
- 344-008 7:59 PM · 20 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 7:59 pm and 8:04 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 025-091, 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/025-091 (accessed September 30, 2026).