Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 339 › Conversation 339-025
Nixon with unidentified visitors in his EOB office on Executive authority
Friday, May 19, 1972 · 1:58 PM–3:20 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building
AI Summary
President Nixon expresses a firm demand for increased administrative discipline and control over the operations of the State Department, the Pentagon, and the CIA. He emphasizes the need for centralized authority in his dealings with these government agencies and military branches. This directive highlights the President's ongoing efforts to assert tighter executive oversight across his foreign policy and national security apparatus.
- Executive authority
- State Department
- Pentagon
- CIA
- Government oversight
Audio
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Transcript (AI-generated)
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NARA Description
On May 19, 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 1:58 pm and 3:20 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 339-025 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 339-25
Date: May 19, 1972
Time: Unknown between 1:58 and 3:20 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with an unknown person.
Dictation
-Delivery to unknown woman
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 3:20 pm.Also recorded on May 19, 1972
- 024-159 1:58 PM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:58 pm and 3:20 pm.
- 339-021 1:58 PM · 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 1:58 pm and 3:20 pm.
- 339-022 1:58 PM · 1 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 1:58 pm and 3:20 pm.
- 339-023 1:58 PM · 10 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:58 pm and 3:20 pm.
- 339-024 1:58 PM · 1 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 1:58 pm and 3:20 pm.
- 339-026 1:58 PM · 3 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 1:58 pm and 3:20 pm.
- 339-027 1:58 PM · 1 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 1:58 pm and 3:20 pm.
- 339-028 1:58 PM · 19 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 1:58 pm and 3:20 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 339-025, May 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/339-025 (accessed October 9, 2026).