Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 26 › Conversation 026-058

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller

Saturday, July 1, 1972 · 1:05 PM–11:59 PM ET · White House Telephone · 23 min

ParticipantsNot recordedConversation026-058 on Tape 26 (tape position 03:20:54–04:01:58)StartSaturday, July 1, 1972 at 1:05 PMEndSaturday, July 1, 1972 at 11:59 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 026-058 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 646368928 ↗

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Position in tape: 03:20:54 – 04:01:58

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On July 1, 1972, the recording device engaged at an unknown time between 1:05 pm and 11:59 pm, but the conversation appears to be blank. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 026-058 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 26-58

This portion of the tape appears to be blank; however conversation could have taken place.

No transcript is available yet for this conversation.

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  • 026-041 12:16 PM · 1 min — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman and Clark MacGregor talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:16 pm and 1:02 pm.
  • 026-042 12:16 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:16 pm and 1:02 pm.
  • 026-043 1:00 PM · 18 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone from 1:00 pm to 1:02 pm.
  • 026-044 1:02 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Vernon A. Walters talked on the telephone from 1:02 pm to 1:05 pm.
  • 746-018 1:02 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Vernon A. Walters met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:02 pm to 1:05 pm.
  • 746-019 1:05 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and Bruce A. Kehrli met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:05 pm and 1:08 pm.
  • 746-020 1:08 PM · 12 sec — Unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 1:08 pm on July 1, 1972 and 9:06 am on July 19, 1972.

Conversation 026-058, July 1, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 646368928). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/026-058 (accessed November 15, 2026).