Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 601 › Conversation 601-035
Nixon with unidentified visitors in the Oval Office on William P. Rogers
Tuesday, October 26, 1971 · 8:35 AM–8:49 AM ET · Oval Office · 8 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon requested that the White House operator connect him with Secretary of State William P. Rogers. This brief interaction served as a logistical step to facilitate direct communication between the President and his top diplomat. No further substantive policy discussions were recorded during this brief administrative request.
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NARA Description
On October 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:35 am and 8:49 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 601-035 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 601-35
Date: October 26, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:35 am and 8:49 am
Location: Oval Office
The President spoke with White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 12-129]
Conversation No. 601-36/602-1
Date: October 26, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:35 am and 10:00 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Haldeman's schedule
-Disneyworld
-Ceremony
-Haldeman
-Roy O. Disney
Conv. No. 601-36/602-1 (cont.)
-Press coverage
The President spoke with William P. Rogers between 8:49 am and 8:55 am.
[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1A]
[See Conversation No. 12-130]
[End of telephone conversation]
Rogers
The President's schedule
-Labor meeting
-Henry A. Kissinger
-John B. Connally
-Forthcoming Congressional testimony
-Budget meeting
-Kissinger
-Rogers
-Timing
-Options
The President spoke with White House operator.
[Conversation No. 601-36/602-1B]
[See Conversation No. 12-131]
The President conferred with Haldeman during the telephone call.
The President's schedule
-Rogers
-Kissinger
Haldeman spoke with Rogers.
[End of telephone conversation]
North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
-Ambassadorial appointment
Conv. No. 601-36/602-1 (cont.)
The President's schedule
-Kissinger and Rogers
-Press statement
-The President’s trip to People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Length
Kissinger’s trip to PRC
-Secretarial staff
The President's forthcoming trip to the PRC
-Female staff
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Dwight L. Chapin
-Hangchow
-Mrs. Nixon
-Rose Mary Woods
-Press
-Kissinger’s trip
-Secretaries
-Logistics
-Mrs. Nixon
-Press coverage
-Adele (Langston) Rogers
-Mrs. Nixon
-Press coverage
-The President's role in approval of personnel
-Secret Service
-Military staff
-White House staff
-Press corps
-Mrs. Nixon
-Staff
-Constance M. Stuart
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-J. Bruce Whelihan
-Requirements
-Woods
-Assignment
-Kissinger
-Zosimo T. Monzon
Conv. No. 601-36/602-1 (cont.)
-Kissinger
-Staff
-Rogers
-Secretarial staff
-Adele Rogers
-Arrival
-Mrs. Nixon
-Mrs. Chou En-Lai
-Secret Service
-Mrs. Nixon
-Press coverage
-The President’s view
-Francis Lewine
-Press
-John A. Scali
-Television crews
-The President’s view
-The President's role in approval of personnel
-Theodore H. (“Teddy”) White
-Time-Life magazine
-Possible effect
-Ziegler
-Scali
Patrick J. Buchanan
-Schedule
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-PRC trip
-Effect
The President's forthcoming trip to PRC
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-William L. Safire
-Buchanan
-Safire
-USSR trip
-Speechwriters
-Buchanan
-White House staff attendance
-Kissinger
-Memorandum by Haldeman
Conv. No. 601-36/602-1 (cont.)
-Chapin
-Chinese position on ground station
-Networks
-Western Union, International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT] Company
The President's schedule
-Kissinger
Kissinger
-Press contacts
-Backgrounders
-The President’s view
Administration press contacts
-Ziegler
-Backgrounders
-The President’s view
-The President's conversation with John D. Ehrlichman
The President's schedule
-National Security Council [NSC]
-Rogers
-United Nations [UN] vote on Taiwan
-Countries
-Meetings with the President
-African nations
This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 10:00 am; it is continued on reel 602.Also recorded on October 26, 1971
- 012-129 8:35 AM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:35 am and 8:49 am.
- 013-001 8:35 AM · 8 sec — the recording device engaged at an unknown time between 8:35 am and 10:15 am, but the conversation appears to be blank.
- 013-002 8:35 AM · 9 sec — the recording device engaged at an unknown time between 8:35 am and 10:15 am, but the conversation appears to be blank.
- 601-036 8:35 AM · 30 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, William P. Rogers, and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:35 am and 10:00 am.
- 012-130 8:49 AM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and William P. Rogers talked on the telephone from 8:49 am to 8:55 am.
- 602-001 9:01 AM · 1 hr 40 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Alexander P. Butterfield, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Manolo Sanchez, White House operator, Peter M. Flanigan, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:01 am and 11:09 am.
- 013-003 10:15 AM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 10:15 am to 10:16 am.
- 013-004 10:16 AM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:16 am and 10:17 am.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 601-035, October 26, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/601-035 (accessed October 12, 2026).