Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 25 › Conversation 025-129
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on White House Tapes
Thursday, June 22, 1972 · 5:07 PM–9:41 AM ET · White House Telephone · 32 min
AI Summary
This recording consists of a brief, largely unintelligible exchange between unidentified participants, concluding with a simple valediction. Despite the substantial duration indicated, the audio content remains mostly blank or indecipherable, offering no discernible information regarding White House policy, administration activities, or substantive decision-making. Consequently, the segment serves as a null entry in the presidential record with no actionable historical data.
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NARA Description
Unknown person(s) talked on the telephone on an unknown date, sometime between 5:07 pm on June 22, 1972 and 9:41 am on June 23, 1972. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-129 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 25-129 Date: Unknown between June 22 and 23, 1972 Time: Unknown Location: White House Telephone ***************************************************************** [Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and released 11/1/2017.] [Unintelligible] [025-129-w001] [Duration: 31m 40s] [This portion of the tape appears to be blank. However, conversations may have taken place.] *****************************************************************
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— 31 min 36 s with no transcribed speech —
Also recorded on June 22, 1972
- 025-124 4:35 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 4:35 pm.
- 025-125 4:35 PM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 4:35 pm.
- 025-126 4:35 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 4:35 pm to 4:36 pm.
- 740-005 4:35 PM — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 4:35 pm.
- 740-006 4:35 PM — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at 4:35 pm.
- 025-127 5:02 PM · 25 sec — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, President Richard M. Nixon, and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:02 pm and 5:04 pm.
- 025-128 5:05 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Richard J. Daley talked on the telephone from 5:05 pm to 5:07 pm.
- 103-004 5:20 PM — Richard M. Nixon and chief executives of the broadcasting industry, including Charles Batson, Charles Crutchfield, Daniel R. Eaton, John Fetzer, James S. Gilmore, Jr., Larry Israel, John Kluge, Charles S. Mechem, Bill Michaels, John T. Murphy, Ancil Paine, John Poor, Ward Quaal, Leonard Reinsch, Bill Shaw, Reid L. Shaw, Robert Slaughter, Franklin C. Snyder, Egmont Sonderling, E. R. Vadeboncoeur, M. C. Waters, Fred Weber, Robert Wells, Richard Chapin, Herbert G. Klein, Ronald L. Ziegler, Peter M. Flanigan, John D. Ehrlichman, George W. Romney, Charles W. Colson, Richard A. Moore, Alvin Snyder, Clay T. ("Tom") Whitehead, Dean Burch, and the White House photographer, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House from 5:20 pm to 6:28 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 025-129, June 22, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417193881). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/025-129 (accessed November 8, 2026).