Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 332 › Conversation 332-017
Nixon alone in his EOB office on Memorandum and Executive documentation
Thursday, April 20, 1972 · 2:48 PM–3:08 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 5 min
AI Summary
President Richard M. Nixon utilized the recording session in his Old Executive Office Building suite to dictate a memorandum for the official record. The substance of this dictation remains restricted as a personal returnable item, meaning no information regarding specific policy decisions or internal communications is publicly available. This brief recorded period served primarily as a procedural tool for the President to formalize administrative documentation.
Audio
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Position in tape: 00:26:25 – 00:31:36
part A, 26:23
NARA Description
On April 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:48 pm and 3:08 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 332-017 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 332-17 Date: April 20, 1972 Time: Unknown between 2:48 pm and 3:08 pm Location: Old Executive Office Building The President dictated a memorandum for the file. ***************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal returnable] [Duration: 4m 16s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 *****************************************************************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The entire recording consists of silence and electronic tone/clicks with no intelligible speech, corresponding to a withdrawn item.
Material withdrawn by the National Archives (for privacy or national security) is replaced with a tone or silence in the released audio.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 April 20, 1972
- 023-052 2:46 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 2:46 pm to 2:48 pm.
- 332-016 2:46 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:46 pm to 2:48 pm.
- 023-053 2:48 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:48 pm and 3:08 pm.
- 332-018 2:48 PM · 26 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:48 pm and 3:08 pm.
- 023-054 3:08 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 3:08 pm to 3:09 pm.
- 332-019 3:08 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:08 pm to 3:09 pm.
- 332-020 3:09 PM · 55 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 3:09 pm and 3:10 pm.
- 023-055 3:10 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:10 pm and 3:15 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 332-017, April 20, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/332-017 (accessed November 15, 2026).