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Nixon with unidentified visitors in his EOB office on Presidential meetings

Friday, March 17, 1972 · 1:45 PM–2:45 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]Conversation323-030 on Tape 323 (tape position 02:20:17–02:21:54)StartFriday, March 17, 1972 at 1:45 PMEndFriday, March 17, 1972 at 2:45 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 323-030 ↗

President Nixon held a private meeting in the Old Executive Office Building with an unidentified individual. Due to the lack of a surviving transcript and the presence of a withdrawn segment, the specific subject matter of the discussion remains undocumented. Consequently, no policy decisions or action items can be verified from this encounter.

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This conversation has not yet been cut into its own clip, so the player above contains the full tape segment shared with neighbouring conversations. It begins about 02:20:17 into the tape and ends around 02:21:54.

No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.

On March 17, 1972, 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 1:45 pm and 2:45 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 323-030 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 323-30

Date: March 17, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:45 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:45 pm.
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Conversation 323-030, March 17, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/323-030 (accessed October 3, 2026).