Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 27 › Conversation 027-029
Nixon phone call with Ehrlichman on White House administration
Thursday, July 20, 1972 · 5:35 PM–5:36 PM ET · White House Telephone · 14 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman engaged in a brief telephone consultation to coordinate administrative activities. Given the lack of a transcript and the cross-reference to a subsequent conversation, the primary focus appears to be the scheduling or redirection of a pending discussion. No substantive policy decisions or developments are documented in this brief exchange.
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Transcript (AI-generated)
No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.
NARA Description
On July 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman talked on the telephone from 5:35 pm to 5:36 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 027-029 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 27-29
Date: July 20, 1972
Time: 5:35 pm - 5:36 pm
Location: White House Telephone
John D. Ehrlichman talked with the President.
[See Conversation No. 349-15]
[Unintelligible]Also recorded on July 20, 1972
- 027-027 4:04 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:04 pm and 5:35 pm.
- 027-028 4:28 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at 4:28 pm.
- 349-013 5:30 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:30 pm and 5:35 pm.
- 349-014 5:30 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:30 pm and 5:35 pm.
- 349-015 5:35 PM · 24 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:35 pm to 5:36 pm.
- 027-030 5:36 PM · 14 sec — The recording device engaged on an unknown date, sometime between 5:36 pm on July 20, 1972 and 12:07 pm on July 21, 1972, but the conversation appears to be blank.
- 349-016 5:40 PM · 16 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:40 pm to 6:15 pm.
- 349-017 6:15 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 6:15 pm and 6:18 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 027-029, July 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/027-029 (accessed October 2, 2026).