Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 30 › Conversation 030-052

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on White House Tapes

Monday, August 14, 1972 · 5:18 PM–11:17 AM ET · White House Telephone · 13 sec

ParticipantsNot recordedConversation030-052 on Tape 30StartMonday, August 14, 1972 at 5:18 PMEndTuesday, September 19, 1972 at 11:17 AMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 030-052 ↗

A 13-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.

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NARA Description

The recording device engaged on an unknown date, sometime between 5:18 pm on August 14, 1972 and 11:17 am on September 19, 1972, but the conversation appears to be blank. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 030-052 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 30-52

Date: Unknown between August 14 and September 19, 1972
Time: Unknown between 5:18 pm, August 14 and 11:17 am, September 19, 1972
Location: White House Telephone

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

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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.

Also recorded on August 14, 1972

  • 029-066 4:34 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 4:34 pm to 4:36 pm.
  • 362-021 4:34 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:34 pm to 4:36 pm.
  • 362-022 4:40 PM · 28 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Ronald L. Ziegler, unknown person(s), Alexander P. Butterfield, White House operator, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:40 pm to 5:15 pm.
  • 029-067 5:02 PM · 18 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 5:02 pm.
  • 029-068 5:02 PM · 12 sec — The recording device engaged on an unknown date, sometime between 5:02 pm on August 14, 1972 and 11:17 am on September 19, 1972, but the conversation appears to be blank.
  • 362-023 5:15 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building on an unknown date, sometime between 5:15 pm on August 14, 1972 and 12:40 pm on September 6, 1972.
  • 362-024 5:15 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building on an unknown date, sometime between 5:15 pm on August 14, 1972 and 12:40 pm on September 6, 1972.
  • 202-001 6:05 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David on an unknown date, sometime between 6:05 pm on August 14, 1972 and 8:17 pm on August 15, 1972.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 030-052, August 14, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/030-052 (accessed November 1, 2026).