Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 292 › Conversation 292-004

Nixon with unidentified visitors in his EOB office on Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Tuesday, October 19, 1971 · 1:45 PM–2:53 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 45 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation292-004 on Tape 292 (tape position 00:05:29–00:06:11)StartTuesday, October 19, 1971 at 1:45 PMEndTuesday, October 19, 1971 at 2:53 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 292-004 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Lewis F. Powell, Jr. The purpose of this communication was to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and the future Supreme Court nominee. This interaction served as a logistical step in the administration's judicial appointment process.

Audio

Download MP3 · 0.7 MB

This clip was extracted from the full tape recording by Easy Nixon.

Listen to the full tape segment

Position in tape: 00:05:29 – 00:06:11

292a.mp3
292b.mp3

Transcript (AI-generated)

This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Names and numbers are often wrong; speakers are not identified. Do not cite it as authoritative — verify against the audio and the finding aid.

Download transcript (.txt) · JSON data

by Mr. Louis Powell.
Attorney General has stopped him in New York a couple of nights today.
Powell, Powell, P-O-W-E-L-L-O, he's in the war right now.

NARA Description

On October 19, 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 1:45 pm and 2:53 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 292-004 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 292-4

Date: October 19, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:53 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 11-136]

     Request for a call to Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

Also recorded on October 19, 1971

  • 011-135 1:39 PM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Donald H. Rumsfeld talked on the telephone from 1:39 pm to 1:44 pm.
  • 011-136 1:44 PM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:44 pm and 3:00 pm.
  • 011-137 1:44 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:44 pm and 3:00 pm.
  • 292-001 1:45 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 2:53 pm.
  • 292-002 1:45 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 2:53 pm.
  • 292-003 1:45 PM · 54 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 2:53 pm.
  • 292-005 1:45 PM · 2 min — 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 1:45 pm and 2:53 pm.
  • 596-022 1:45 PM · 55 sec — unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:45 pm and 11:59 pm.

All 93 conversations from October 19, 1971 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 292-004, October 19, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/292-004 (accessed September 28, 2026).