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Conversation: 564-001

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Start Date: 15-Aug-1971 8:55 PM

End Date: 15-Aug-1971 9:24 PM

Participants:

Nixon, Richard M. (President)[Unknown person(s)]

Recording Device: Oval Office

Full Tape Conversation Start Time: 00:00:32

Full Tape Conversation End Time: 00:32:00

564a.mp3

564b.mp3

NARA Description:

On August 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:55 pm and 9:24 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 564-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid:

Conversation No. 564-1

Date: August 15, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:55 pm and 9:24 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with unknown men.

     The President’s forthcoming speech
          -Preparation
               -Telephone
                      -Call
               -President’s appearance
               -President's voice
                      -Sound
               -Time
               -Television cameras
                      -Cueing
                      -President’s positioning
               -Time
               -Oval Office
               -Unknown person’s wedding
                      -Gift
                      -Trip
                      -Press corps
               -Procedures
                      -Cueing
               -Time

The President delivered a speech entitled "The Challenge of Peace" between 9:00 pm and 9:22
pm.

[See Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 886-891]

     Length of President's speech

     Unknown man

     Cameras and lights
                                              2

                           NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF

                                     Tape Subject Log
                                       (rev. 10/06)
                                                                Conv. No. 564-1 (cont.)


     Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon's schedule
          -American Broadcasting Corporation [ABC] program
               -San Clemente, California

     [General conversation]

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 9:24 pm.