Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 25 › Conversation 025-101

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Vernon A. Walters and CIA

Wednesday, June 21, 1972 · 12:26 PM–12:28 PM ET · White House Telephone · 4 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation025-101 on Tape 25 (tape position 04:12:34–04:12:39)StartWednesday, June 21, 1972 at 12:26 PMEndWednesday, June 21, 1972 at 12:28 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 025-101 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a telephone call to Lieutenant General Vernon A. Walters at the CIA. This request reflects the President's direct engagement with the intelligence community during the post-Watergate period. No further discussion or substantive content was recorded beyond the initial placement of the call.

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Would you get General Walters at the CIA, please?
Yes, sir.

NARA Description

On June 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:26 pm and 12:28 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-101 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 25-101

Date: June 21, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:26 and 12:28 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 739-6B]

     Request for a call to Lt. Gen. Vernon A. Walters

Also recorded on June 21, 1972

  • 025-102 12:28 PM · 40 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Vernon A. Walters talked on the telephone from 12:28 pm to 12:29 pm.
  • 025-103 12:30 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:30 pm and 12:33 pm.
  • 739-007 12:30 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Zosimo T. Monzon met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:30 pm and 12:33 pm.
  • 025-104 12:33 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 12:33 pm to 12:34 pm.
  • 739-008 12:33 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:33 pm to 12:34 pm.
  • 739-009 12:34 PM · 18 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:34 pm and 12:38 pm.
  • 739-010 12:38 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Nelson A. Rockefeller, John A. Volpe, Jacob K. Javits, James L. Buckley, John D. Ehrlichman, William L. Gifford, William A. Ronan, Alexander P. Butterfield, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:38 pm to 1:22 pm.
  • 025-105 1:24 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:24 pm and 2:11 pm.

All 47 conversations from June 21, 1972 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 025-101, June 21, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/025-101 (accessed September 30, 2026).