President Nixon held a brief administrative interaction with the White House operator to facilitate an outgoing telephone connection. This exchange served purely as a routine logistical step to connect the President with another party. No substantive policy discussions or policy-related decisions were recorded during this brief communication.
On September 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:10 pm and 3:12 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 783-021 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 783-21 Date: September 19, 1972 Time: Unknown between 3:10 pm and 3:12 pm Location: Oval Office The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 30-7]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.