Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 328 › Conversation 328-022
Nixon & Eisenhower on Family and White House social dynamics
Wednesday, March 29, 1972 · 3:50 PM–3:51 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 46 sec
AI Summary
President Richard M. Nixon met with his daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, in his Old Executive Office Building suite for a brief personal visit. The discussion served as a momentary social interaction between family members during a period of significant presidential activity. No formal policy decisions or administrative actions were documented during this short encounter.
- Family
- Personal correspondence
- White House social dynamics
Audio
NARA Description
On March 29, 1972, 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 3:51 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 328-022 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 328-22
Date: March 29, 1972
Time: 3:50 pm - 3:51 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked with the President.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 10/09/2019.
Segment will remain closed.]
[Personal Returnable]
[328-022-w001]
[Duration: 44s]
[See Conversation No. 022-045]
[End of telephone conversation]
END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
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Conv. No. 328-30
Conversation (cont.)
No. 328-23
Date: March 29, 1972
Time: 4:00 pm - 4:48 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
[International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] case
-John N. Mitchell
-Robert C. Mardian
-Wallace Johnson
-ITT lawyer
-An affidavit
-Edwin Reinecke
-Indictment of Mitchell
-Johnson
-A lawyer’s testimony
-James O. EastlandShow the rest of the log (160 more lines)
-Call to Mardian
-Hearings
-Richard G. Kleindienst confirmation
-Termination of hearings
-Witnesses
-ITT lawyer
-Harold S. Geneen
-Current strategy
-Kleindienst confirmation
-Postponement
-Problems
-Eastland’s weaknesses
-Hugh Scott
-Clark MacGregor’s analysis
-Scott, Charles McC Mathias, Jr.
-Roman L. Hruska and Edward J. Gurney
-Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Marlow W. Cook
-Charles W. Colson’s view
-Kleindienst
-Peter M. Flanigan
-Options
-Floor vote to recommit
-Committee vote
-Kleindienst
-Withdrawal of nomination
-Statement
-Timing
-Colson’s strategy
-John V. Tunney, Edward M. Kennedy
-Press
-Life magazine charges
-Herbert G. Klein
-Severance of issue
-Problems
-Goals of strategy
-Hearings
-Mitchell
-Eastland
-ITT lawyer
-Testimony
-Reinecke
-Affidavit
-Amount
-Dita D. Beard
-Kennedy
-Harold S. Geneen
-Testimony
-Flanigan
-Role in case
-Testimony
-Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.’s committee
-Ervin’s aims
-Executive privilege
-Meeting
-Arrangements
-Letter to Hruska
-Explanation
-Ervin’s rejection
-MacGregor’s negotiations
-Ervin
-Executive privilege
-Investigation
-Political motives
-Colson and MacGregor
-Eastland
-Relationship with Mitchell
-Mitchell and Mardian
-Concern over Kleindienst
-Hearings
-Mitchell’s views
-Problems
-Mitchell’s role
-Call to Mathias
-Scott
-Severance of issue
-Problems
-Gurney’s views
-Termination
-Executive session
-Geneen
-Eastland
-Kleindienst
-Failure of confirmation
-Political implications
-John B. Connally’s views
-Withdrawal of nomination
-Problems
-Colson’s view
-Handling
-Committee hearings
-Kleindienst’s statement
-Filibuster
-Circumstances
-Likelihood
-Votes to confirm
-Hearings
-Termination
-Michael J. Mansfield
-Reopening
-Filibuster
-Democratic strategy
-Eastland
-Mansfield
-Removal from political campaign
-Handling
-Colson’s view
-Need to act
-Timing
-Strategy
-Timing
-Hearings
-Reopening
-Mitchell
-Handling of confirmation
-Dealings with the White House
-Bryce N. Harlow
-John D. Ehrlichman
-MacGregor
-Meeting with President
-Discussion
-Haldeman
-Withdrawal of nomination
-Colson’s view
-Meeting
-MacGregor
-Ehrlichman
-Colson
-Call to Kleindienst
-Meeting with the President and Haldeman
-Place
Haldeman talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:48
pm.
[Conversation No. 328-23A]
[See Conversation No. 22-46]
[End of telephone conversation]
ITT case
-Hearings
-Kleindienst
[Haldeman talked with Kleindienst at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:48 pm]
[Conversation No. 328-23B]
[See Conversation No. 22-46]
[End of telephone conversation]
Forthcoming meeting with Kleindienst
-Entrance
-Walk to the White House
-Haldeman’s call
-Kleindiensts’s reaction
The President and Haldeman left at 4:48 pm.Transcript (AI-generated)
No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The recording contains no intelligible speech; it consists of tone/silence followed by continuous low-frequency hum/hiss, corresponding to the withdrawn personal segment noted in the archival log.
Material withdrawn by the National Archives (for privacy or national security) is replaced with a tone or silence in the released audio.
Also recorded on March 29, 1972
- 328-012 12:57 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:57 pm and 3:07 pm.
- 022-044 3:07 PM · 8 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Clark MacGregor, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 3:07 pm to 3:15 pm.
- 328-019 3:07 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Clark MacGregor, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:07 pm to 3:15 pm.
- 328-020 3:15 PM · 23 sec — 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 3:15 pm and 3:50 pm.
- 328-021 3:15 PM · 1 min — 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 3:15 pm and 3:50 pm.
- 022-045 3:50 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 3:50 pm to 3:51 pm.
- 022-046 4:00 PM · 3 min — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, President Richard M. Nixon, and Richard G. Kleindienst talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:00 pm and 4:48 pm.
- 328-023 4:00 PM · 32 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, and Richard G. Kleindienst met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:00 pm to 4:48 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 328-022, March 29, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417186149). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/328-022 (accessed November 15, 2026).