Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 728 › Conversation 728-003

Nixon with unidentified visitors in the Oval Office on White House operator

Tuesday, June 6, 1972 · 2:01 PM–2:04 PM ET · Oval Office

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); White House operatorConversation728-003 on Tape 728 (tape position 00:22:49–00:23:52)StartTuesday, June 6, 1972 at 2:01 PMEndTuesday, June 6, 1972 at 2:04 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 728-003 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon consulted with a White House operator to facilitate an outgoing call. This brief interaction served as a routine administrative request to connect the President to another party. No substantive policy discussions or significant political decisions occurred during this brief exchange.

Audio

Download MP3 (part 1) · 167.3 MB ·Download MP3 (part 2) · 35.6 MB

This conversation has not yet been cut into its own clip, so the player above contains the full tape segment shared with neighbouring conversations. It begins about 00:22:49 into the tape and ends around 00:23:52.

Transcript (AI-generated)

No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.

NARA Description

On June 6, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:01 pm and 2:04 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 728-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 728-3

Date: June 6, 1972
Time: Unknown between 2:01 and 2:04 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 25-16]

Also recorded on June 6, 1972

  • 025-015 1:42 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 1:42 pm to 1:57 pm.
  • 025-016 2:01 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:01 pm and 2:05 pm.
  • 025-017 2:01 PM · 2 min — unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:01 pm and 2:05 pm.
  • 728-002 2:01 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:01 pm and 2:04 pm.
  • 728-004 2:01 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:01 pm and 2:04 pm.
  • 728-005 2:04 PM · 13 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:04 pm to 2:17 pm.
  • 728-006 2:17 PM · 50 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 2:17 pm.
  • 728-007 2:17 PM · 31 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:17 pm and 2:50 pm.

All 40 conversations from June 6, 1972 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 728-003, June 6, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/728-003 (accessed October 9, 2026).