President Nixon consulted with a White House operator to facilitate an outgoing call. This interaction served purely as an administrative function to connect the President with another party. No substantive policy discussions or major decisions were recorded during this brief exchange.
On May 5, 1971, 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 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 252-038 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 252-38 Date: May 5, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:16 pm and 3:00 pm Location: Executive Office Building The White House operator talked with the President [See Conversation No. 42-94]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.