Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 43 › Conversation 043-031
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Camp David
Tuesday, February 6, 1973 · 1:54 PM–2:47 PM ET · White House Telephone · 12 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon requested that the White House operator place a telephone call to his daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower. The operator promptly facilitated the request to connect the President with Julie at Camp David. The brief exchange served exclusively as a logistical coordination to initiate this personal communication.
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NARA Description
On February 6, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:54 pm and 2:47 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 043-031 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 43-31
Date: February 6, 1973
Time: Unknown between 1:54 pm and 2:47 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 409-12]
Request for a call to Julie Nixon Eisenhower
-Camp David
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 43-32 (cont’d)Also recorded on February 6, 1973
- 409-008 1:54 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 1:54 pm.
- 409-009 1:54 PM · 45 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:54 pm to 1:55 pm.
- 409-010 1:55 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:55 pm to 1:56 pm.
- 409-011 1:57 PM · 10 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 1:57 pm and 2:47 pm.
- 409-012 1:57 PM · 11 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 1:57 pm and 2:47 pm.
- 409-013 1:57 PM · 27 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and William P. Rogers met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:57 pm and 2:47 pm.
- 043-032 2:47 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 2:47 pm to 2:50 pm.
- 409-014 2:47 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:47 pm and 2:57 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 043-031, February 6, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/043-031 (accessed October 1, 2026).