Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 106 › Conversation 106-009

White House tour group on White House tours and Cabinet Room

Thursday, September 7, 1972 · 10:18 AM–9:30 PM ET · Cabinet Room

ParticipantsWhite House tour groupConversation106-009 on Tape 106StartThursday, September 7, 1972 at 10:18 AMEndThursday, September 7, 1972 at 9:30 PMRecording deviceCabinet RoomSourceNixon Library record for 106-009 ↗

AI Summary

An unidentified tour group visited the Cabinet Room, where they were given a brief overview of the space's function and historical significance. The visitors observed the room's layout, including the specific seating arrangements assigned to key officials such as Donald Rumsfeld and George Shultz. This informal tour provided the public with an up-close look at the administrative setting where the National Security Council and Cabinet meetings typically occur.

Audio

Download MP3 (part 1) · 112.5 MB ·Download MP3 (part 2) · 111.0 MB ·Download MP3 (part 3) · 101.1 MB

This conversation has not yet been cut into its own clip, so the player above contains the full tape segment shared with neighbouring conversations.

Transcript (AI-generated)

No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.

NARA Description

On September 7, 1972, a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 10:18 am and 9:30 pm. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 106-009 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 106-9

Date: Unknown between September 7 and September 9, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:18 am, September 7 and 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972
Location: Cabinet Room

Unknown men met

     Cabinet Room

          -Cabinet
          -National Security Council
          -Chairs
               -Donald H. Rumsfeld
               -George P. Shultz

     Oval Office

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 9:30 pm, September 9, 1972

Also recorded on September 7, 1972

106-004 10:18 AM — unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 10:18 am and 9:30 pm.
106-007 10:18 AM — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 10:18 am and 9:30 pm.
106-008 10:18 AM — unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 10:18 am and 9:30 pm.
106-010 10:18 AM — Charles W. Colson and a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 10:18 am and 9:30 pm.
106-012 10:18 AM — unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 10:18 am and 9:30 pm.
772-005 10:24 AM · 27 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:24 am and 10:32 am.
772-006 10:32 AM · 13 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Stephen B. Bull, and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:32 am and 10:40 am.
772-007 10:40 AM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:40 am and 10:41 am.

All 28 conversations from September 7, 1972 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 106-009, September 7, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/106-009 (accessed October 12, 2026).