Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 625 › Conversation 625-009
Nixon White House recording on Oval Office and unintelligible
Wednesday, November 24, 1971 · 4:51 PM–11:59 PM ET · Oval Office · 42 sec
AI Summary
This recording captures a brief, unidentified interaction in the Oval Office consisting primarily of ambient background noise and unintelligible speech. Due to the lack of clear dialogue or identifiable participants, the session yields no substantive information regarding policy decisions or administrative actions. Consequently, the meeting remains historically obscure and provides no meaningful insight into the operations of the Nixon White House.
- Oval Office
- unintelligible
- archival noise
- white noise
Audio
NARA Description
On November 24, 1971, unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:51 pm and 11:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 625-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 625-9 Date: November 24, 1971 Time: Unknown between 4:51 pm and 11:59 pm Location: Oval Office Unknown people met. ***************************************************************** [Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and released 04/11/2022.] [Unintelligible] [625-009-w001] [Duration: 42s] [This portion of the tape is mostly tape noise with some muffled background conversation.] ***************************************************************** The unknown people left at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.
Transcript (AI-generated)
No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The entire recording consists of tape hiss and muffled, distant, unintelligible background voices.
Also recorded on November 24, 1971
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- 625-003 4:19 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:19 pm and 4:35 pm.
- 625-004 4:19 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:19 pm and 4:35 pm.
- 625-005 4:19 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:19 pm and 4:35 pm.
- 015-138 4:35 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 4:35 pm.
- 625-007 4:35 PM · 4 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 4:35 pm.
- 625-008 4:35 PM · 16 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan) Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:35 pm to 4:51 pm.
- 015-139 4:37 PM · 16 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan) Nixon talked on the telephone from 4:37 pm to 4:38 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 625-009, November 24, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417180059). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/625-009 (accessed October 28, 2026).