Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 28 › Conversation 028-012

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on White House Tapes

Friday, July 28, 1972 · 2:09 PM–4:06 PM ET · White House Telephone · 11 sec

ParticipantsNot recordedConversation028-012 on Tape 28StartFriday, July 28, 1972 at 2:09 PMEndMonday, July 31, 1972 at 4:06 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 028-012 ↗

This recording consists of a blank segment captured by the White House telephone taping system. Despite the archival designation of the entry, no intelligible dialogue or actionable content was recovered from the recording. Consequently, no discussions, decisions, or participants could be identified for historical analysis.

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The recording device engaged on an unknown date, sometime between 2:09 pm on July 28, 1972 and 4:06 pm on July 31, 1972, but the conversation appears to be blank. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 028-012 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 28-12

Date: Unknown between July 28 and 31, 1972
Time: Unknown
Location: White House Telephone

This portion of the tape appears to be blank. However, conversations may have taken place.

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  • 756-016 1:10 PM · 20 sec — Stephen B. Bull, Manolo Sanchez, and United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:10 pm and 1:43 pm.
  • 756-018 1:43 PM · 32 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:43 pm to 1:45 pm.
  • 756-019 1:45 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:45 pm to 1:50 pm.
  • 764-002 1:50 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Dr. At the signing ceremony for the Records of Discussion, President Richard M. Nixon and Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Evgeniy A. Belov, Herman Pollack, John Granger, Nicholas Andrews, Clarence Linder, Raymond Bisplinghoff, Adm. Thomas Owen, Bodo Bartocha, Norman Neureiter, Dr. Eugene Fubini, Alan Astin, Dr. John D. Baldeschwieler, members of the press, and the White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:50 pm to 1:57 pm.
  • 756-020 1:57 PM · 12 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, Henry A. Kissinger, White House operator, and James O. Eastland met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:57 pm to 2:09 pm.
  • 028-011 2:08 PM · 41 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and James O. Eastland talked on the telephone from 2:08 pm to 2:09 pm.
  • 756-021 2:09 PM · 30 min — President Richard M. Nixon, George R. S. Baring, Sir Burke Trend, Henry A. Kissinger, White House photographer, Manolo Sanchez, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:09 pm to 2:42 pm.
  • 756-022 2:42 PM · 16 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:42 pm and 2:43 pm.

Conversation 028-012, July 28, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/028-012 (accessed October 27, 2026).