President Nixon consulted with a White House operator to facilitate an outgoing call. This brief interaction served an administrative purpose to establish a connection with a party outside the Oval Office. No substantive policy discussions or decisions were recorded during this brief bridge to a separate conversation.
On January 3, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:52 pm and 2:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 831-014 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 831-14 Date: January 3, 1973 Time: Unknown between 2:52 pm and 2:59 pm Location: Oval Office The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 35-74]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.