President Nixon initiates a brief administrative communication with the White House operator from his office in the Old Executive Office Building. The recording serves as a procedural log of the President connecting via the internal switchboard system. No substantive policy matters or specific directives were captured during this brief exchange.
On January 23, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 6:19 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 407-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 407-16 Date: January 23, 1973 Time: 6:19 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 36-87]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.