Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 29 › Conversation 029-072
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on White House Taping System
Tuesday, August 8, 1972 · 5:07 PM–3:52 PM ET · White House Telephone · 10 sec
AI Summary
This recording captures a segment of the White House telephone taping system that failed to record audible content due to technical machine noise. Consequently, there is no evidence of the participants involved or the subject matter discussed. The tape remains blank, precluding any historical analysis of policy developments or administrative decisions.
- White House Taping System
- Technical malfunction
- Archival records
- Nixon administration
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
The recording device engaged on an unknown date, sometime between 5:07 pm on August 8, 1972 and 3:52 pm on August 14, 1972, but the conversation appears to be blank. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 029-072 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 29-72
Date: Unknown between August 8, 1972 and August 14, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:07 pm, August 8, 1972 and 3:52 pm, August 14, 1972
Location: White House Telephone
Machine noise renders portion of the tape unintelligible, but conversations might have taken
place.
[Unintelligible]Also recorded on August 8, 1972
- 029-061 4:56 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan) Nixon talked on the telephone from 4:56 pm to 4:59 pm.
- 029-062 4:59 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:59 pm and 5:05 pm.
- 029-063 4:59 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:59 pm and 5:05 pm.
- 363-019 4:59 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 4:59 pm and 5:05 pm.
- 363-020 4:59 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:59 pm and 5:05 pm.
- 363-021 4:59 PM · 6 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 4:59 pm and 5:05 pm.
- 029-064 5:05 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 5:05 pm to 5:07 pm.
- 363-022 5:05 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 5:05 pm to 5:07 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 029-072, August 8, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/029-072 (accessed October 1, 2026).