President Nixon held a private meeting with an unidentified individual in his Old Executive Office Building suite to conduct business that remains largely undocumented due to the lack of a transcript. A brief four-second segment of the interaction was designated as a personal returnable item and withdrawn from the record. The meeting concluded without a public account of the specific policy discussions or administrative decisions reached during the encounter.
On October 17, 1971, 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 6:26 pm and 8:48 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 290-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 290-6 Date: October 17, 1971 Time: Unknown between 6:26 pm and 8:48 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President met with an unknown person. ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 4s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:48 pm.
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.