Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 297 › Conversation 297-017
Nixon alone in his EOB office on Memorandum
Friday, November 12, 1971 · 10:06 AM–12:10 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 39 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon utilized this session to dictate a memorandum for his personal records. As no transcript is available and a portion of the recording was withdrawn, the specific content of the dictation remains undisclosed to researchers. This entry serves as a formal documentation of the President's internal administrative activities regarding his personal files.
- Memorandum
- Presidential records
- Administrative procedures
- Nixon personal files
Audio
This clip was extracted from the full tape recording by Easy Nixon.
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Position in tape: 00:33:01 – 00:33:37
part A, 32:59
NARA Description
On November 12, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 297-017 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 297-17 Date: November 12, 1971 Time: Unknown between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm Location: Executive Office Building The President dictated a memorandum for the file. ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 29s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 *****************************************************************
Transcript (AI-generated)
No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The entire recording consists of silence and tape hiss corresponding to a withdrawn item.
Material withdrawn by the National Archives (for privacy or national security) is replaced with a tone or silence in the released audio.
Also recorded on November 12, 1971
- 014-082 10:06 AM · 20 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm.
- 297-016 10:06 AM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm.
- 297-018 10:06 AM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm.
- 297-019 10:06 AM · 2 min — 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 10:06 am and 12:10 pm.
- 297-020 10:06 AM · 5 min — 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 10:06 am and 12:10 pm.
- 297-021 10:06 AM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm.
- 297-022 10:06 AM · 7 min — 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 10:06 am and 12:10 pm.
- 297-023 10:06 AM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:06 am and 12:10 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 297-017, November 12, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/297-017 (accessed November 15, 2026).