Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 42 › Conversation 042-080
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Rose Mary Woods
Thursday, April 29, 1971 · 2:56 PM–3:57 PM ET · White House Telephone · 8 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon initiates a brief telephone call through the White House operator to connect with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods. The conversation serves strictly as a logistical request to facilitate communication with his staff. No substantive policy matters or political issues are discussed during this administrative exchange.
- Rose Mary Woods
- White House operations
- Personnel communication
- Administrative logistics
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NARA Description
On April 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:56 pm and 3:57 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-080 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 42-80
Date: April 29, 1971
Time: Unknown between 2:56 pm and 3:57 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 251-37]
Call to Rose Mary WoodsAlso recorded on April 29, 1971
- 251-033 1:17 PM · 6 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 1:17 pm and 2:53 pm.
- 251-034 1:17 PM · 6 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 1:17 pm and 2:53 pm.
- 490-008 1:17 PM · 1 min — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 1:17 pm on April 29, 1971 and 7:39 am on May 4, 1971.
- 251-035 2:53 PM · 15 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:53 pm to 2:56 pm.
- 251-036 2:56 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:56 pm and 3:57 pm.
- 251-037 2:56 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 2:56 pm and 3:57 pm.
- 042-081 3:57 PM · 40 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Marjorie P. Acker talked on the telephone from 3:57 pm to 3:58 pm.
- 251-038 3:57 PM · 34 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Marjorie P. Acker met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:57 pm to 3:58 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 042-080, April 29, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-080 (accessed October 3, 2026).