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Nixon phone call with Haldeman on White House Tapes and Archival recovery

Tuesday, June 20, 1972 · 8:42 PM–8:50 PM ET · White House Telephone · 2 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. ("Bob")Conversation025-094 on Tape 25 (tape position 04:00:25–04:07:38)StartTuesday, June 20, 1972 at 8:42 PMEndTuesday, June 20, 1972 at 8:50 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 025-094 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417193811 ↗

President Nixon and H. R. Haldeman engaged in a brief telephone conversation, though the recording consists almost entirely of tape noise and muffled background audio. Due to the lack of clear content, the specific nature of the discussion remains unintelligible to researchers. Consequently, no substantive policy decisions, strategic planning, or actionable items can be derived from this recording.

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On June 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 8:42 pm to 8:50 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-094 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 25-94

Date: June 20, 1972
Time: 8:42-8:50 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.

[See Conversation No. 344-11]

     Telephone call from Haldeman

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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 10/31/2017.]
[Unintelligible]
[025-094-w001]
[Duration: 7m 8s]

[This portion of the tape is mostly tape noise with some muffled background conversation.]

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No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The recording contains only tape noise, static hum, and very faint unintelligible muffled background sounds with no identifiable spoken words.

  • 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.
  • 025-093 8:04 PM · 17 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 8:04 pm to 8:21 pm.
  • 344-009 8:04 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:04 pm to 8:22 pm.
  • 344-010 8:22 PM · 34 sec — President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:22 pm and 8:42 pm.
  • 344-034 8:22 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:22 pm and 8:42 pm.
  • 344-011 8:42 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 8:42 pm to 8:50 pm.
  • 344-012 8:50 PM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:50 pm and 11:22 pm.

Conversation 025-094, June 20, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417193811). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/025-094 (accessed November 14, 2026).