Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 45 › Conversation 045-007
Nixon phone call with an unidentified caller
Thursday, April 26, 1973 · 1:13 PM ET · White House Telephone · 22 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon consulted with a White House operator to locate his daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, in order to facilitate a personal phone call. After learning that Julie was out shopping with First Lady Pat Nixon, the President instructed the operator to attempt to reach his other daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, instead. The brief exchange served purely administrative and personal purposes regarding family communications.
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NARA Description
On April 26, 1973, White House operator and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at 1:13 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 45-7
Date: April 26, 1973
Time: 1:13 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The White House operator talked with the President.
[See also Conversation No. 431-2]
Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s location
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
Telephone call to Tricia Nixon CoxAlso recorded on April 26, 1973
- 045-005 12:23 PM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Richard G. Kleindienst talked on the telephone from 12:23 pm to 12:32 pm.
- 905-020 12:32 PM · 1 min — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 12:32 pm on April 26, 1973 and 7:32 am on April 27, 1973.
- 045-006 12:34 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:34 pm and 1:13 pm.
- 431-001 12:34 PM · 38 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:34 pm and 1:13 pm.
- 431-002 1:13 PM · 20 sec — White House operator and President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 1:13 pm.
- 045-008 1:15 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 1:15 pm to 1:17 pm.
- 431-003 1:15 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:15 pm to 1:17 pm.
- 431-004 1:17 PM · 41 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 1:17 pm and 3:00 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 045-007, April 26, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/045-007 (accessed October 5, 2026).