President Nixon held a brief communication with the White House operator to facilitate a connection to another party. The exchange served administrative purposes related to the routing of presidential telephone calls. No substantive policy discussions occurred during this brief interaction.
On October 19, 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 5:10 pm and 5:14 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 370-017 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 370-17 Date: October 19, 1972 Time: Unknown between 5:10 pm and 5:14 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 31-147]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.