President Nixon consulted with a White House operator to facilitate a telephonic connection. This brief interaction served an administrative purpose to initiate communication with an unspecified party. No substantive policy discussions or major decisions were recorded during this brief exchange.
On April 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:18 am and 9:20 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 711-002 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 711-2
Date: April 18, 1972
Time: Unknown between 9:18 am and 9:20 am
Location: Oval Office
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 23-13]No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.