Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 87 › Conversation 087-002

Nixon White House recording on Cabinet Room and Withdrawn material

Monday, January 3, 1972 · 4:44 PM–2:45 PM ET · Cabinet Room · 5 min

Participants[Unknown person(s)]Conversation087-002 on Tape 87StartMonday, January 3, 1972 at 4:44 PMEndThursday, January 20, 1972 at 2:45 PMRecording deviceCabinet RoomSourceNixon Library record for 087-002 ↗

AI Summary

A group of unidentified individuals met in the Cabinet Room during early January 1972 to engage in discussions that were subsequently withheld from the public record. Due to the lack of a transcript and the complete withdrawal of the audio content, the specific participants, subject matter, and administrative outcomes of the meeting remain unknown to researchers. The recording serves as a historical placeholder for undocumented deliberations occurring within the White House during this period.

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NARA Description

Unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 4:44 pm on January 3, 1972 and 2:45 pm on January 20, 1972. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 087-002 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 87-2

Date: Unknown between January 3 and January 20, 1972
Time: Unknown between 4:44 pm, January 3 and 2:45 pm, January 20, 1972
Location: Cabinet Room

Unknown men met

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Non-historical]
[Duration: 5m 5s ]

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The unknown men left at an unknown time before 2:45 pm, January 20, l972

Transcript (AI-generated)

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— 3 min 50 s with no transcribed speech —

This is the category of where the cadets meet each other on a regular basis.
And each cadet member has a specific place to sit at the table.
The president sits down here in the center, and the cadet meeting directly opposite is the vice president.
And then the cadet members just sit around the table and sit person over on the side.
And I don't know whether you've seen it on the jury's latest book.
They had a photographer come in and take pictures of us while we were in here.
And he took pictures all over the White House, but this was more of an incident for the attention here.
We thought it was funny looking at the light in the shade of those little dots that you see at the back.
And everybody gets very cold and suffering, so they can't really see that.
But we can actually use film in here that's for outdoors, rather than indoor film.
Filming?
Yeah, so they can bring the light up, so they can use that very fine-grained film.
And often times you'll see photographs of the president signing the bill into law, and he's sitting right here when he's doing it.

Also recorded on January 3, 1972

  • 018-013 4:44 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:44 pm and 5:15 pm.
  • 018-014 4:44 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon, William P. Rogers, unknown person(s), and John N. Mitchell talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:44 pm and 5:15 pm.
  • 087-003 4:44 PM · 3 min — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 4:44 pm on January 3, 1972 and 2:45 pm on January 20, 1972.
  • 087-004 4:44 PM · 12 sec — Unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 4:44 pm on January 3, 1972 and 2:45 pm on January 20, 1972.
  • 087-005 4:44 PM · 7 min — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 4:44 pm on January 3, 1972 and 2:45 pm on January 20, 1972.
  • 087-006 4:44 PM · 1 min — Unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 4:44 pm on January 3, 1972 and 2:45 pm on January 20, 1972.
  • 087-007 4:44 PM · 3 min — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 4:44 pm on January 3, 1972 and 2:45 pm on January 20, 1972.
  • 087-008 4:44 PM — Michael J. Farrell, David N. Parker, and unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 4:44 pm on January 3, 1972 and 2:45 pm on January 20, 1972.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 087-002, January 3, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/087-002 (accessed November 2, 2026).