President Nixon consulted with a White House operator to facilitate an outgoing call. This routine interaction served as a technical precursor to the President’s subsequent telephonic communications. No policy decisions or substantive political deliberations occurred during this brief exchange.
On October 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:37 am and 9:44 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 797-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 797-1 Date: October 13, 1972 Time: Unknown between 9:37 am and 9:44 am Location: Oval Office The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 31-36]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.