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.
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 AidConversation 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]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.