Nixon White House TapesTape 744 › Conversation 744-023

Nixon with unidentified visitors in the Oval Office on administrative…

Friday, June 30, 1972 · 3:24 PM ET · Oval Office

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President);  White House operatorConversation744-023 onTape 744 (tape position 03:58:44–03:58:51)StartFriday, June 30, 1972 at 3:24 PMEndFriday, June 30, 1972 at 3:24 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 744-023 ↗

President Nixon consulted with the White House operator to facilitate an outgoing call. This brief interaction served as a routine administrative coordination to establish a telephonic connection with another party. No substantive policy discussions or decisions were documented during this exchange.

Audio for this conversation has not been released by the National Archives.

No transcript is available because the audio has not been released.

On June 30, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 3:24 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 744-023 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 744-23

Date: June 30, 1972
Time: 3:24 pm.
Location: Oval Office

                                        (rev. Feb-02)

The President talked with the White House operator.

[See Conversation No. 26-46]
  • 347-005 2:10 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:10 pm and 2:55 pm.
  • 744-021 2:55 PM — President Richard M. Nixon, Clark MacGregor, Stephen B. Bull, Ernesto V. Lagdameo, and Mrs. Ernesto V. Lagdameo met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:55 pm to 3:18 pm.
  • 744-022 3:18 PM — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:18 pm to 3:24 pm.
  • 026-055 3:24 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Caspar W. ("Cap") Weinberger talked on the telephone from 3:24 pm to 3:28 pm.
  • 744-024 3:24 PM — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Richard G. Kleindienst, and Caspar W. ("Cap") Weinberger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:24 pm to 4:22 pm.
  • 745-001 3:24 PM — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and Richard A. Moore met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:24 pm to 4:29 pm.
  • 026-056 3:28 PM · 47 min — The recording device engaged on an unknown date, sometime between 3:28 pm on June 30, 1972 and 8:01 am on July 1, 1972, but the conversation appears to be blank.
  • 745-002 4:30 PM — President Richard M. Nixon, Clark MacGregor, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, David C. Hoopes, Ronald L. Ziegler, Rose Mary Woods, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:30 pm to 6:15 pm.

Conversation 744-023, June 30, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/744-023 (accessed September 18, 2026).