President Nixon initiated a brief contact with the White House operator to facilitate a telephonic connection. This interaction functioned as a routine administrative task to establish communication with an unnamed external party. No substantive policy discussions or policy decisions occurred during this brief exchange.
On February 21, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:55 am and 9:58 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 859-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 859-11 Date: February 21, 1973 Time: Unknown between 9:55 am and 9:58 am Location: Oval Office The President talked with the White House operator. [See Conversation No. 43-140]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.