President Nixon held a brief, six-minute meeting with an unidentified individual in the Old Executive Office Building. While no transcript exists to detail the specifics of the exchange, the President utilized the time to convey a direct message to his guest. The meeting concluded abruptly, leaving no documented record of further actions or policy developments resulting from the encounter.
On October 19, 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 5:43 pm and 5:49 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 292-021 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 292-21
Date: October 19, 1971
Time: Unknown between 5:43 pm and 5:49 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with an unknown person.
Message to unknown man
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:49 pm.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.