President Nixon initiates a brief administrative interaction with the White House operator to facilitate a telephonic connection. This recording serves as a logistical bridge to a subsequent conversation, underscoring the President's reliance on operators for managing official communication lines. No substantive policy matters or major strategic decisions are discussed during this brief bridge.
On April 25, 1972, 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 1:39 pm and 1:45 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 332-044 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 332-44
Date: April 25, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:39 and 1:45 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 23-64]No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.