Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 29 › Conversation 029-037
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on White House Tapes
Monday, August 7, 1972 · 5:24 PM–7:50 PM ET · White House Telephone · 10 sec
AI Summary
This recording consists of a blank segment captured by the White House telephone taping system. Due to technical malfunctions and significant machine noise, no intelligible communication or substantive exchange was preserved. Consequently, there are no recorded participants, topics, or administrative developments associated with this file.
- White House Tapes
- Technical Glitch
- Archival Record
- Null Recording
Audio
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 August 7, 1972, the recording device engaged at an unknown time between 5:24 pm and 7:50 pm, but the conversation appears to be blank. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 029-037 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 29-37
Date: August 7, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:24 pm and 7:50 pm
Location: White House Telephone
Machine noise renders portion of the tape unintelligible, but conversations might have taken
place.
[Unintelligible]Also recorded on August 7, 1972
- 763-026 4:25 PM · 20 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:25 pm and 4:33 pm.
- 763-027 4:33 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:33 pm and 4:34 pm.
- 764-001 4:33 PM · 56 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, Henry A. Kissinger, White House operator, and Anatoliy F. Dobrynin met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:33 pm to 5:21 pm.
- 029-034 4:34 PM · 2 min — Henry A. Kissinger, Arthur F. Burns, and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:34 pm and 5:21 pm.
- 029-035 4:34 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:34 pm and 5:23 pm.
- 362-013 5:22 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:22 pm and 5:23 pm.
- 362-014 5:22 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:22 pm and 6:23 pm.
- 029-036 5:23 PM · 43 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield talked on the telephone from 5:23 pm to 5:24 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 029-037, August 7, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/029-037 (accessed October 25, 2026).