President Nixon initiated a brief communication through the White House operator to facilitate a connection to another party. This interaction served a purely administrative function to coordinate official telephonic access. No substantive policy discussions or significant decisions occurred during this brief exchange.
On December 5, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 1:09 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 387-008 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 387-8 Date: December 5, 1972 Time: 1:09 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 34-147]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.