Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 314 › Conversation 314-012

Nixon with unidentified visitors in his EOB office on Sapphire

Thursday, January 13, 1972 · 4:12 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 8 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation314-012 on Tape 314 (tape position 01:31:07–01:32:12)StartThursday, January 13, 1972 at 4:12 PMEndThursday, January 13, 1972 at 4:12 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 314-012 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417185613 ↗

An 8-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.

Audio

Download MP3 · 0.3 MB

NARA Description

On January 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 4:12 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 314-012 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 314-012
Date: January 18, 1972
Time: 4:12 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 18-6]

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 Do not cite it as authoritative — verify against the audio and the finding aid.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

Click a timestamp to play from that point; the page address then links to that moment (e.g. #t=125).

That's one of Sapphire's companies you'll be interested in.

Also recorded on January 13, 1972

  • 314-010 3:45 PM · 7 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 3:45 pm and 4:12 pm.
  • 314-011 3:45 PM · 1 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 3:45 pm and 4:12 pm.
  • 018-085 3:50 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone from 3:50 pm to 3:52 pm.
  • 314-006 3:50 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:50 pm to 3:52 pm.
  • 314-007 3:52 PM · 20 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:52 pm and 3:55 pm.
  • 314-008 3:52 PM · 13 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 3:52 pm and 3:55 pm.
  • 314-009 3:55 PM · 15 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and John V. Brennan met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:55 pm to 4:15 pm.
  • 314-013 4:15 PM · 42 min — President Richard M. Nixon, William L. Safire, and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:15 pm to 5:00 pm.

All 48 conversations from January 13, 1972 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 314-012, January 13, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417185613). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/314-012 (accessed November 13, 2026).