President Nixon initiated a brief communication with the White House operator to facilitate an outgoing call. This interaction served as a logistical step to connect the President with another party, though the specific recipient of the call remains unrecorded. No substantive policy discussions or major decisions occurred during this brief exchange.
On July 3, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 7:58 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 536-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 536-2 Date: July 3, 1971 Time: 7:58 am Location: Oval Office The President talked with the White House operator [See Conversation No. 6-114]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.