Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 260 › Conversation 260-033

Nixon with unidentified visitors in his EOB office on Telephone operations

Monday, July 5, 1971 · 8:48 PM–9:08 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation260-033 on Tape 260 (tape position 04:08:59–04:10:05)StartMonday, July 5, 1971 at 8:48 PMEndMonday, July 5, 1971 at 9:08 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 260-033 ↗

President Nixon consulted with a White House operator to facilitate a telephone connection. The brief exchange focused exclusively on coordinating communication logistics. No substantive policy matters or major decisions were recorded during this interaction.

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This conversation has not yet been cut into its own clip, so the player above contains the full tape segment shared with neighbouring conversations. It begins about 04:08:59 into the tape and ends around 04:10:05.

No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.

On July 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 8:48 pm and 9:08 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 260-033 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 260-33

Date: July 5, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:48 pm and 9:08 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 6-152]
  • 006-149 8:38 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Florence P. Dwyer talked on the telephone from 8:38 pm to 8:41 pm.
  • 260-030 8:38 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Florence P. Dwyer met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:38 pm to 8:41 pm.
  • 006-150 8:41 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:41 pm and 8:45 pm.
  • 260-031 8:41 PM · 4 min — 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 8:41 pm and 8:45 pm.
  • 006-151 8:45 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and James Harvey talked on the telephone from 8:45 pm to 8:48 pm.
  • 260-032 8:45 PM · 22 min — President Richard M. Nixon and James Harvey met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:45 pm to 8:48 pm.
  • 006-152 8:48 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:48 pm and 9:08 pm.
  • 006-153 9:08 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 9:08 pm to 9:13 pm.

Conversation 260-033, July 6, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/260-033 (accessed October 5, 2026).