President Nixon met with an unidentified male visitor in the Old Executive Office Building for a private consultation. Due to the lack of a transcript or specific descriptive metadata, the exact nature of the discussion remains undocumented. This interaction serves as an example of the frequent, unrecorded meetings conducted by the President during his tenure, highlighting a gap in the historical record regarding his daily decision-making process.
On November 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 4:00 pm and 5:23 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 293-013 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 293-13
Date: November 17, 1971
Time: Unknown between 4:00 pm and 5:23 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with an unknown man.
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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:23 pm.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.