Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 744 › Conversation 744-023
Nixon with unidentified visitors in the Oval Office
Friday, June 30, 1972 · 3:24 PM ET · Oval Office
AI Summary
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
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NARA Description
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.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 744-23
Date: June 30, 1972
Time: 3:24 pm.
Location: Oval Office
The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 26-46]
Conversation No. 744-24/745-1
Date: June 30, 1972
Time: 3:24-4:22 pm.
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and Richard G. Kleindienst.
Kleindienst's schedule
-Possible press briefing
The President talked with Caspar W. Weinberger between 3:24 and 3:28 pm.
[Conversation 744-24A]
[See Conversation No. 26-30]
[End of telephone conversation]
Social Security bill
-Effects of increase
-Trust fund
-Budget deficit
-Possible veto
-Effects
Supreme Court decision on death penalty
-Instances in which death penalty is allowed
-The President's position
-Kidnapping, hijacking, killing police officers, rape
-Warren E. Burger's opinion
Conv. No. 744-24/745-1 (cont.)
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National Conventions
-Security
-Justice Department's work
-Preparations
-White House involvement
-Kleindienst’s view
-Danger
-Republican’s choice of Miami
-Kleindienst's culpability
-Reubin O. Askew
-Local police
-Askew
-Miami Beach community
-Liberal Jews
-California decision
-Court action
-Timing of Democrat Convention
-Compared to 1952 Republicans
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert A. Taft, Sr.
-George S. McGovern supporters
Conv. No. 744-24/745-1 (cont.)
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National Conventions
-Security
-The President's statement on National Guard
The President's previous press conference
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter's question
-Supreme Court decision on wiretapping
-The President's response
-Previous administrations
-Current number
-Possible statement by Kleindienst
National Convention security
-Possible statement by Kleindienst
-Kleindienst's activities
-Need for publicity
-News magazines
-Time
-Results of challenge to McGovern's California delegates
-Demonstrators
-Possible Department of Justice action
Conv. No. 744-24/745-1 (cont.)
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-Effect of election on nation and world
George C. Wallace
-Health
-Kleindiensts’ conversation with James O. Eastland
-Mrs. Cornelia Wallace
-Dr. [First name unknown] Shanno
-Dr. William M. Lukash's report
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr's briefing
-Examination
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Wallace
-Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates named George
-George Washington
-Alben W. Barkley
-Harry S. Truman
-Henry A. Wallace
Conv. No. 744-24/745-1 (cont.)
-John Nance Garner
-Lyndon B. Johnson
-Charles Dawes
-Herbert C. Hoover
Kleindienst's job
-Pay
-Perquisites
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] protection
Supreme Court decision on death penalty
-Effects
-Effects of Charles A. Lindbergh Act
-Crimes subject to penalty
-Bombing
-Kidnapping
-Hijacking
-Killing of police officers
-Killing of prison guards
-Deterrent effect
-Life imprisonment
Justice Department
-Civil Rights Division
-David L. Norman
-Employees
Supreme Court
-The President’s appointments
-The President's view
-Future appointment
David L. Bazelon’s retirement
Public broadcasting
-Kleindienst’s salary compared to salary of Sander Vanocur
-Budget request
Social Security bill
-Possible veto
-Debt limit
Conv. No. 744-24/745-1 (cont.)
Haldeman’s schedule
-California
Kleindienst left at 4:06 pm.
John N. Mitchell
-Martha (Beall) Mitchell's schedule
-Statements on convention
Watergate break-in
-Washington Daily News story on E. Howard Hunt, Jr.'s office
-Gun
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-Accuracy of story
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-Contents of Hunt's safe
-Gun, wiretapping gear, suitcase
-Map
-FBI handling
-FBI
-John W. Dean III and John Mitchell
-Vernon A. Walters's visit
-L. Patrick Gray, III
-W. Mark Felt
-Justice Department
-Kleindienst's role
-Justice Department
-Walters to visit
-Cubans
-Hunt's location
-Disguises
-Charles W. Colson's knowledge of contents of Hunt's safe
-Washington Daily News story on Hunt's safe
-Administration's reaction
-Ziegler
-Gun
-Map
-Dean
-Democratic National Committee headquarters
-Wiretapping equipment
-Dean's theory
-Double agent
Conv. No. 744-24/745-1 (cont.)
-Mitchell
-Responsiblity
-Resignation
-White House involvement
-Hunt
-Colson's reaction
Watergate cover-up
-White House reaction
-Mitchell
-To call Kleindienst and Gray to halt investigation
-James W. McCord, Jr.
-F. Lee Bailey
-Edward Bennett Williams
[Conversation cut off. Conversation continues on 745-1]Transcript (AI-generated)
No transcript is available because Easy Nixon does not have the audio yet.
Also recorded on June 30, 1972
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- 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.
Cite this conversation
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 November 2, 2026).