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
A 10-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.
Audio
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]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.
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- 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.
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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 November 15, 2026).