Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 37 › Conversation 037-013

Kissinger phone call on Yitzhak Rabin and Blair House

Thursday, March 1, 1973 · 10:05 AM–10:36 AM ET · White House Telephone · 15 sec

ParticipantsKissinger, Henry A.; White House operatorConversation037-013 on Tape 37StartThursday, March 1, 1973 at 10:05 AMEndThursday, March 1, 1973 at 10:36 AMRecording deviceWhite House TelephoneSourceNixon Library record for 037-013 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417195173 ↗

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NARA Description

On March 1, 1973, Henry A. Kissinger and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:05 am and 10:36 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-013 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 37-13

Date: March 1, 1973
Time: Unknown between 10:05 am and 10:36 am
Location: White House Telephone

Henry A. Kissinger talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 866-4A]
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                             NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

       Request for a call to Yitzhak Rabin
             -Blair House

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Can you get me Ambassador Ruffin at the player house, please?

Yes, thank you.

Also recorded on March 1, 1973

866-004 9:47 AM · 57 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Ronald L. Ziegler, White House operator, Yitzhak Rabin, unknown person(s), and John W. Dean, III met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:47 am and 10:44 am.
037-014 10:05 AM · 1 min — Henry A. Kissinger and Yitzhak Rabin talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:05 am and 10:36 am.
866-005 10:44 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:44 am and 10:57 am.
037-015 10:51 AM · 22 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 10:51 am.
037-016 10:51 AM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:51 am and 10:52 am.
866-006 10:51 AM · 19 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 10:51 am.
866-007 10:51 AM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:51 am and 10:56 am.
866-008 10:51 AM · 23 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:51 am and 10:56 am.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 037-013, March 1, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417195173). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-013 (accessed November 2, 2026).