Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 332 › Conversation 332-047

Nixon with unidentified visitors in his EOB office on White House…

Tuesday, April 25, 1972 · 1:48 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation332-047 on Tape 332 (tape position 05:17:13–05:17:25)StartTuesday, April 25, 1972 at 1:48 PMEndTuesday, April 25, 1972 at 1:48 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 332-047 ↗

President Nixon initiates a brief administrative communication with the White House operator from his office in the Old Executive Office Building. The recording functions as a technical bridge or coordination effort, facilitating a subsequent conversation recorded under a separate identifier. No substantial policy matters or executive decisions are documented within this short 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 05:17:13 into the tape and ends around 05:17:25.

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

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 1:48 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 332-047 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 332-47

Date: April 25, 1972
Time: 1:48 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President talked with the White House operator.

     [See Conversation No. 23-66]
  • 023-064 1:39 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:39 pm and 1:45 pm.
  • 332-043 1:39 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 1:39 pm and 1:45 pm.
  • 332-044 1:39 PM · 18 sec — 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.
  • 023-065 1:45 PM · 24 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 1:45 pm to 1:46 pm.
  • 332-046 1:45 PM · 19 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:45 pm to 1:46 pm.
  • 023-066 1:48 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 1:48 pm.
  • 023-067 1:55 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:55 pm and 1:59 pm.
  • 332-048 1:55 PM · 37 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, White House operator, Manolo Sanchez, Clark MacGregor, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:55 pm to 2:25 pm.

Conversation 332-047, April 25, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/332-047 (accessed October 9, 2026).