President Nixon initiated a brief communication with the White House operator from his office in the Old Executive Office Building. The interaction primarily functioned as a logistical request to facilitate a phone connection, though the specific details of the intended call remain unintelligible. No substantive policy or political decisions resulted from this brief administrative exchange.
On June 28, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 4:02 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 259-008 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 259-8
Date: June 28, 1971
Time: 4:02 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President talked with the White House operator
[Unintelligible]No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.