Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 78 › Conversation 078-005
Nixon with unidentified visitors in the Cabinet Room on Cabinet Room
Thursday, October 7, 1971 · 4:52 PM–12:01 PM ET · Cabinet Room
AI Summary
President Nixon held a meeting in the Cabinet Room with an unidentified individual to discuss scheduling matters. Due to the lack of a transcript and the sudden cutoff of the recording, the specific nature of the agenda remains undocumented. No definitive policy decisions or developments were captured during this brief recorded segment.
Audio
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Transcript (AI-generated)
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NARA Description
President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 4:52 pm on October 7, 1971 and 12:01 pm on October 12, 1971. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 078-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 78-5
Date: Unknown between October 7 and October 12, 1971
Time: Unknown between 4:52 pm, October 7 and 12:01 pm, October 12, 1971
Location: Cabinet Room
The President met with an unknown man
Schedule
Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 12:01 pm, October 12, 1971Also recorded on October 7, 1971
- 010-140 4:12 PM · 15 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 4:12 pm to 4:27 pm.
- 285-045 4:12 PM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:12 pm to 4:27 pm.
- 285-005 4:27 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 4:27 pm and 4:30 pm.
- 078-004 4:30 PM · 23 min — President Richard M. Nixon and bipartisan Congressional leaders, including Wallace F. Bennet, Robert C. Byrd, Allen J. Ellender, Robert P. Griffin, Jacob K. Javits, Russell B. Long, Michael J. ("Mike") Mansfield, Jack R. Miller, Hugh Scott, John J. Sparkman, Herman E. Talmadge, William Proxmire, John G. Tower, Page Belcher, John W. Byrnes, Gerald R. Ford, George H. Mahon, Albert H. Quie, Wright Patman, William L. Springer, [Thomas] Hale Boggs, John B. Connally, Paul W. McCracken, George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman, William E. Timmons, Richard K. Cook, and Eugene S. Cowen, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and 4:57 pm.
- 286-001 5:10 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:10 pm and 5:36 pm.
- 286-003 5:10 PM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:10 pm and 5:36 pm.
- 286-004 5:10 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:10 pm and 5:36 pm.
- 011-001 5:36 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 5:36 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 078-005, October 7, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/078-005 (accessed October 12, 2026).