Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 31 › Conversation 031-011

Nixon phone call with Cox on White House Tapes and Privacy

Friday, October 6, 1972 · 12:31 PM–12:34 PM ET · White House Telephone · 20 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia NixonConversation031-011 on Tape 31StartFriday, October 6, 1972 at 12:31 PMEndFriday, October 6, 1972 at 12:34 PMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 031-011 ↗

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On October 6, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 12:31 pm to 12:34 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 031-011 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 31-11

Date: October 6, 1972
Time: 12:31 pm - 12:34 pm
Location: White House Telephone

Tricia Nixon Cox talked with the President.

[See Conversation No. 354-16]

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Mr. President, I have Patricia for you.
All right.
There you are.
  • 031-010 12:29 PM · 19 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, unknown person(s), and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:29 pm and 12:30 pm.
  • 354-011 12:29 PM · 9 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 12:29 pm and 12:31 pm.
  • 354-012 12:29 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:29 pm and 12:31 pm.
  • 354-013 12:29 PM · 39 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:29 pm and 12:30 pm.
  • 365-001 12:29 PM · 16 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building on an unknown date, sometime between 12:29 pm on October 6, 1972 and 1:38 pm on October 9, 1972.
  • 354-014 12:30 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 12:30 pm.
  • 354-015 12:30 PM · 41 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:30 pm and 12:31 pm.
  • 354-016 12:31 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:31 pm to 12:34 pm.

Conversation 031-011, October 6, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/031-011 (accessed November 9, 2026).