Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 37 › Conversation 037-108
Nixon phone call with Dean on FBI raw files and Congressional access
Wednesday, March 14, 1973 · 4:25 PM–4:26 PM ET · White House Telephone · 39 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon urgently inquired of John Dean whether the FBI had previously provided raw files to congressional committees. Nixon demanded immediate confirmation and threatened severe repercussions for the FBI if the information was not promptly supplied. Dean agreed to contact the FBI to ascertain this information.
- FBI raw files
- Congressional access
- Nixon administration
- John Dean
- White House tapes
Audio
NARA Description
On March 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and John W. Dean, III talked on the telephone from 4:25 pm to 4:26 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-108 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 37-108
Date: March 14, 1973
Time: 4:25 pm-4:26 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with John W. Dean, III.
[See Conversation No. 419-34B]
Congressional access to Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] raw files
-Past incidents
-Orders for FBITranscript (AI-generated)
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Also recorded on March 14, 1973
- 037-105 4:09 PM · 18 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 4:09 pm to 4:10 pm.
- 419-032 4:09 PM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:09 pm to 4:10 pm.
- 037-106 4:10 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:10 pm and 4:25 pm.
- 037-107 4:10 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:10 pm and 4:25 pm.
- 419-033 4:10 PM · 14 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 4:10 pm and 4:25 pm.
- 419-034 4:25 PM · 1 hr 10 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, White House operator, John W. Dean, III, Manolo Sanchez, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:25 pm to 5:40 pm.
- 037-109 4:34 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John W. Dean, III, and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 4:34 pm to 4:36 pm.
- 419-035 5:40 PM · 16 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 5:40 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 037-108, March 14, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417195349). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-108 (accessed November 2, 2026).