President Nixon spoke with his daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, for a brief personal check-in during a period of intense political pressure surrounding the Watergate scandal. The conversation served primarily as a moment of familial support, allowing the President to connect with his daughter amidst his mounting administrative challenges. No policy decisions or substantive business matters were addressed during this brief exchange.
On May 1, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 1:30 pm to 1:31 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-089 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 45-89 (cont’d)
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.