Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 44 › Conversation 044-162
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller on Telephone logs
Sunday, April 8, 1973 · 7:27 PM–7:37 PM ET · White House Telephone · 3 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon engaged in an unidentified telephone call that was immediately aborted. Due to the lack of available transcripts or descriptive metadata, the specific intent, participants, and subject matter of the communication remain unknown. No substantive policy discussions or actionable decisions were recorded during this brief connection.
- Presidential communications
- Telephone logs
- White House Tapes
- Unidentified caller
Audio
Transcript (AI-generated)
No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.
NARA Description
On April 8, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:27 pm and 7:37 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 044-162 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 044-162
Date: April 8, 1973
Time: Unknown between 7:27 pm and 7:37 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President conferred with an unknown person.
[Aborted telephone call]
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542Also recorded on April 9, 1973
- 044-163 7:27 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:27 pm and 7:37 pm.
- 044-103 7:33 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:33 pm and 7:37 pm.
- 044-104 7:37 PM · 35 sec — Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:37 pm and 8:14 pm.
- 044-105 7:37 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:37 pm and 8:14 pm.
- 044-106 8:14 PM · 44 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 8:14 pm.
- 891-001 9:47 AM · 1 hr 48 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:47 am to 11:49 am.
- 891-011 11:49 AM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:49 am and 3:01 pm.
- 044-107 12:01 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:01 pm and 12:07 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 044-162, April 9, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/044-162 (accessed October 5, 2026).