Nixon White House Tapes ›Tape 28 › Conversation 028-037

Nixon phone call with Kiernan on Law enforcement and Police relations

Tuesday, August 1, 1972 · 5:20 PM–5:21 PM ET · White House Telephone ·18 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  Kiernan, Edward J.Conversation028-037 onTape 28StartTuesday, August 1, 1972 at 5:20 PMEndTuesday, August 1, 1972 at 5:21 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 028-037 ↗

AI Summary

President Richard M. Nixon held a brief telephone conversation with Edward J. Kiernan, the president of the International Conference of Police Associations. The discussion served as a follow-up to a previous engagement between the two men. Due to the withdrawal of the primary content for privacy reasons, no specific policy decisions or action items are available for review.

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Hello?
Mr.
Person has Edward J. Kiernan.
Yes.
Question's on the line, sir.
Hello?

NARA Description

On August 1, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Edward J. Kiernan talked on the telephone from 5:20 pm to 5:21 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 028-037 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 28-37

Date: August 1, 1972
Time: 5:20 pm - 5:21 pm
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with Edward J. Kiernan.

[See Conversation No. 758-20]

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Also recorded on August 1, 1972

  • 758-018 5:17 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:17 pm and 5:20 pm.
  • 758-019 5:17 PM · 34 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:17 pm and 5:20 pm.
  • 758-020 5:20 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Edward J. Kiernan met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:20 pm to 5:21 pm.
  • 758-021 5:21 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:21 pm and 5:22 pm.
  • 758-022 5:22 PM · 26 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:22 pm to 5:23 pm.
  • 028-038 5:23 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John McCarroll, Jim Keys, and Elmer Roger talked on the telephone from 5:23 pm to 5:26 pm.
  • 758-023 5:23 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John McCarroll met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:23 pm to 5:26 pm.
  • 028-039 5:26 PM · 10 sec — The recording device engaged on an unknown date, sometime between 5:26 pm on August 1, 1972 and 9:33 am on August 2, 1972, but the conversation appears to be blank.

All 73 conversations from August 1, 1972 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 028-037, August 1, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/028-037 (accessed September 18, 2026).