Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 51 › Conversation 051-008

Nixon White House recording on Cabinet Room and White House Tapes

Thursday, March 25, 1971 · 11:30 AM–5:00 PM ET · Cabinet Room · 8 min

Participants[Unknown person(s)]Conversation051-008 on Tape 51StartThursday, March 25, 1971 at 11:30 AMEndThursday, March 25, 1971 at 5:00 PMRecording deviceCabinet RoomSourceNixon Library record for 051-008 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417174123 ↗

AI Summary

A meeting involving unidentified participants occurred in the Cabinet Room, though the recording consists of unintelligible audio. Due to the lack of transcript and identifiable speakers, no substantive policy discussions, decisions, or specific developments were captured. The brief recording concludes without any discernable action items.

Audio

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NARA Description

On March 25, 1971, unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 11:30 am and 5:00 pm. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 051-008 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 51-8

Date: March 25, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:30 am and 5:00 pm
Location: Cabinet Room

Unknown men entered

     [Unintelligible]

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 5:00 pm

Transcript (AI-generated)

No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The recording contains no intelligible speech, consisting only of audio hum, faint background movements, and intermittent quiet sounds of unknown men entering and leaving the Cabinet Room.

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  • 051-006 11:15 AM · 19 sec — unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 11:15 am and 11:25 am.
  • 473-006 11:20 AM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Dwight A. Ink, Alan Dean, Charles R. Perry, Donald B. Rice, Richard P. Nathan, Samuel M. Cohn, Charles Bingman, Wesley K. Sasaki, Emerson J. Elliott, Harry S. Havens, Earl D. Rhode, Carl W. Tiller, Rodger L. Greene, Raymond L. Walters, Seymour Blum, Russell Chapin, James Finch, Paul H. O'Neill, John B. Connally, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 11:25 am.
  • 051-007 11:25 AM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John B. Connally met in the Cabinet Room of the White House from 11:25 am to 11:30 am.
  • 473-007 11:25 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:25 am and 11:30 am.
  • 051-009 11:30 AM · 11 min — unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 11:30 am and 5:00 pm.
  • 051-010 11:30 AM · 30 sec — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 11:30 am and 5:00 pm.
  • 051-011 11:30 AM · 1 min — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 11:30 am and 5:00 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 051-008, March 25, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417174123). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/051-008 (accessed November 2, 2026).