President Nixon held a brief, one-minute consultation with a White House operator to facilitate a connection for an outgoing telephone call. This interaction served purely administrative purposes to manage the President's immediate communications. No substantive policy discussions or decisions were recorded during this brief exchange.
On October 27, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:22 pm and 12:23 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 603-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 603-2 Date: October 27, 1971 Time: Unknown between 12:22 pm and 12:23 pm Location: Oval Office The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 13-19]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.