Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 325 › Conversation 325-004

Nixon alone in his EOB office on Presidential dictation and Personal papers

Sunday, March 19, 1972 · 3:58 PM–5:54 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President)Conversation325-004 on Tape 325 (tape position 00:40:51–00:51:53)StartSunday, March 19, 1972 at 3:58 PMEndSunday, March 19, 1972 at 5:54 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 325-004 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon utilized this session in his Old Executive Office Building suite to record personal dictation. The material captured during this interval was subsequently designated as a personal returnable item and withdrawn from the formal public record. Consequently, the specific substance of the President's dictation remains unavailable for historical review.

Audio

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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 00:40:51 into the tape and ends around 00:51:53.

Transcript (AI-generated)

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NARA Description

On March 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:58 pm and 5:54 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 325-004 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 325-4

Date: March 19, 1972
Time: Unknown between 3:58 pm and 5:54 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President dictated.

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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal Returnable]
[Duration: 10m 24s ]

END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1

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Also recorded on March 19, 1972

  • 021-111 9:30 AM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:30 am and 10:31 pm.
  • 021-112 9:30 AM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:30 am and 10:31 pm.
  • 021-113 10:31 AM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 10:31 am to 10:33 am.
  • 021-114 10:33 AM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:33 am and 6:06 pm.
  • 325-005 3:58 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:58 pm and 5:54 pm.
  • 021-115 5:15 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:15 pm and 5:21 pm.
  • 021-116 5:21 PM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 5:21 pm to 5:30 pm.

Cite this conversation

Conversation 325-004, March 19, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/325-004 (accessed October 3, 2026).