Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 297 › Conversation 297-007

Nixon alone in his EOB office on Memorandum and Executive documentation

Thursday, November 11, 1971 · 8:25 PM–8:48 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 3 min

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President)Conversation297-007 on Tape 297 (tape position 00:07:04–00:10:05)StartThursday, November 11, 1971 at 8:25 PMEndThursday, November 11, 1971 at 8:48 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 297-007 ↗

President Nixon utilized this session to dictate a memorandum for his personal files regarding administrative or policy-related matters. The recording serves as a formal record of the President's internal documentation process during his time in the Executive Office Building. No other participants were involved in this brief dictation.

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On November 11, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:25 pm and 8:48 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 297-007 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 297-7

Date: November 11, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:25 pm and 8:48 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The recording contains no intelligible speech; it consists entirely of background noise, silence, or withdrawn material. Material withdrawn by the National Archives (for privacy or national security) is replaced with a tone or silence in the released audio.

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Conversation 297-007, November 11, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/297-007 (accessed November 15, 2026).