Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 34 › Conversation 034-037

Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Huck Boyd

Monday, December 11, 1972 · 11:25 AM–11:42 AM ET · White House Telephone · 17 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation034-037 on Tape 34StartMonday, December 11, 1972 at 11:25 AMEndMonday, December 11, 1972 at 11:42 AMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 034-037 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 647841678 ↗

A 17-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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On December 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:25 am and 11:42 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 034-037 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 34-37

Date: December 11, 1972
Time: Unk between 11:25 am & 11:42 am
Location: White House Telephone

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 819-2E]

       Request for a call to McDill (“Huck”) Boyd
            -Call back instruction
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                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

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Hello.
Mr. President, Mr. Huck Boyd is out of the office for about a half hour.
Call back.
Can I have him called in?
Yeah.
All right, sir.
  • 034-034 10:18 AM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:18 am and 11:07 am.
  • 819-002 10:18 AM · 3 hr 51 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Robert J. Dole, White House operator, Ronald L. Ziegler, George H. W. Bush, Alexander P. Butterfield, McDill ("Huck") Boyd, John B. Connally, John D. Ehrlichman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:18 am and 2:25 pm.
  • 034-035 11:08 AM · 7 min — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, George H. W. Bush, and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:08 am and 11:15 am.
  • 034-036 11:25 AM · 28 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 11:25 am.
  • 034-038 11:42 AM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon and McDill ("Huck") Boyd talked on the telephone from 11:42 am to 11:48 am.
  • 034-039 11:55 AM · 15 sec — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:55 am and 12:14 pm.
  • 034-040 11:55 AM · 9 min — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman and John B. Connally talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:55 am and 12:14 pm.
  • 819-003 2:25 PM · 15 sec — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 2:25 pm on December 11, 1972 and 9:57 am on December 12, 1972.

Conversation 034-037, December 11, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 647841678). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/034-037 (accessed November 2, 2026).