Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 32 › Conversation 032-074
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Earl L. Butz
Friday, October 27, 1972 · 12:59 PM–1:01 PM ET · White House Telephone · 9 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz. This brief communication served strictly as a request for administrative assistance to facilitate the connection. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this exchange.
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NARA Description
On October 27, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:59 pm and 1:01 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 032-074 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 032-074
Date: October 27, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:59 am and 1:01 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 808-8A]
Request for a call to Earl L. Butz.Also recorded on October 27, 1972
- 808-006 11:41 AM · 40 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:41 am to 11:42 am.
- 808-007 11:42 AM · 21 min — President Richard M. Nixon and members of the Committee on the Health Services Industry, including Barbara Dunn, J. Alexander McMahon, Samuel J. Tibbitts, and James W. Haviland, as well as Herbert Stein, Donald H. Rumsfeld, James H. Cavanaugh, the White House photographer, and Stephen B. Bull, met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:42 am to 12:03 pm.
- 808-008 12:59 PM · 20 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Gilroy Roberts, Clement C. Conger, unknown person(s), White House operator, Alexander P. Butterfield, Earl L. Butz, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:59 pm to 1:29 pm.
- 032-075 1:01 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Earl L. Butz talked on the telephone from 1:01 pm to 1:04 pm.
- 374-017 1:34 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:34 pm and 2:40 pm.
- 374-018 1:34 PM · 13 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 1:34 pm and 2:40 pm.
- 808-009 1:34 PM · 2 min — Michael J. Farrell and United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:34 pm and 2:54 pm.
- 374-019 2:30 PM · 9 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 2:30 pm and 2:40 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 032-074, October 27, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-074 (accessed October 9, 2026).