Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 50 › Conversation 050-002

Nixon White House recording on White House Cabinet Room

Tuesday, March 9, 1971 · 9:43 AM–3:06 PM ET · Cabinet Room · 27 sec

Participants[Unknown person(s)]Conversation050-002 on Tape 50StartTuesday, March 9, 1971 at 9:43 AMEndTuesday, March 9, 1971 at 3:06 PMRecording deviceCabinet RoomSourceNixon Library record for 050-002 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417174093 ↗

A 27-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.

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NARA Description

On March 9, 1971, unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 9:43 am and 3:06 pm. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 050-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 50-2

Date: Unknown between March 9 and March 16, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:43 am, March 9 and 3:06 pm, March 16, 1971
Location: Cabinet Room

Unknown people met

     [Unintelligible]

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 3:06 pm, March 16, 1971

Transcript (AI-generated)

No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The recording contains only faint, muffled, unintelligible whispering and ambient noise.

Also recorded on March 9, 1971

  • 464-004 8:00 AM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:00 am to 8:05 am.
  • 050-001 8:05 AM · 1 hr 37 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Republican Congressional Leaders, including Clifford M. Hardin, Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, Hugh Scott, Robert P. Griffin, Margaret Chase Smith, Norris Cotton, Gordon L. Allott, Peter H. Dominick, Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends, John B. Anderson, Robert T. Stafford, Richard H. Poff, John J. Rhodes, Barber B. Conable, Jr., Robert C. ("Bob") Wilson, H. Allen Smith, Robert J. Dole, George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman, Clark MacGregor, William E. Timmons, Herbert G. Klein, Kenneth E. BeLieu, Patrick J. Buchanan, Harry S. Dent, Ronald L. Ziegler, Bryce N. Harlow, John R. Price, Jr., and Edwin L. Harper, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House from 8:05 am to 9:43 am.
  • 050-004 9:43 AM · 3 min — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 9:43 am and 3:06 pm.
  • 050-005 9:43 AM · 15 sec — unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 9:43 am and 3:06 pm.
  • 050-006 9:43 AM · 1 min — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 9:43 am and 3:06 pm.
  • 464-005 9:58 AM · 37 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:58 am to 10:36 am.
  • 464-006 10:36 AM · 16 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:36 am and 10:40 am.
  • 464-007 10:40 AM · 46 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John L. ("Jack") Swigert, Jr., William R. Pogue, Jack R. Lousma, William A. Anders, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Jeb Stuart Magruder, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:40 am to 11:28 am.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 050-002, March 9, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417174093). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/050-002 (accessed November 2, 2026).