Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 341 › Conversation 341-019

Nixon alone in his EOB office on Memorandum and News column

Sunday, June 11, 1972 · 10:20 AM–10:41 AM ET · Old Executive Office Building

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President)Conversation341-019 on Tape 341 (tape position 05:02:07–05:02:47)StartSunday, June 11, 1972 at 10:20 AMEndSunday, June 11, 1972 at 10:41 AMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 341-019 ↗

President Nixon utilized this session in his Old Executive Office Building suite to dictate content for a memorandum. The primary objective of the recording was to capture his thoughts regarding a specific news column. No further participants were involved in this brief dictation, which served to formalize the President's public messaging strategy.

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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 05:02:07 into the tape and ends around 05:02:47.

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

On June 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:20 am and 10:41 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 341-019 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 341-19

Date: June 11, 1972
Time: Unknown between 10:20 and 10:41 am.
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum.

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[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 10/16/2019.
Segment cleared for release.]
[Personal Returnable]
[341-019-w001]
[Duration: 40s]

     Memorandum
              -News column

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  • 025-036 9:51 AM · 31 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 9:51 am to 10:20 am.
  • 341-017 9:51 AM — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:51 am to 10:20 am.
  • 025-037 10:20 AM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:20 am and 10:41 am.
  • 341-018 10:20 AM · 28 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 10:20 am and 10:41 am.
  • 025-038 10:41 AM · 8 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John N. Mitchell talked on the telephone from 10:41 am to 10:54 am.
  • 341-020 10:41 AM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John N. Mitchell met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 10:41 am to 10:54 am.
  • 025-039 10:54 AM · 9 sec — unknown person(s) talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:54 am and 2:30 pm.
  • 341-021 10:54 AM · 13 min — President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:54 am and 2:38 pm.

Conversation 341-019, June 11, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/341-019 (accessed September 30, 2026).