President Nixon placed a brief call to the White House operator to facilitate an outgoing connection to an unnamed party. The conversation served a purely administrative purpose to initiate external communication. No substantive policy discussions or decisions were recorded during this brief administrative interaction.
On May 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:33 pm and 12:48 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 432-013 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 432-13
Date: May 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:33 pm and 12:48 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President talked with the White House operator.
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Conversation No. 432-13 (cont’d)
[See Conversation No. 45-141]No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.