Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 344 › Conversation 344-012

Nixon alone in his EOB office on Presidential records and Memorandum

Tuesday, June 20, 1972 · 8:50 PM–11:22 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President)Conversation344-012 on Tape 344 (tape position 01:03:31–01:09:56)StartTuesday, June 20, 1972 at 8:50 PMEndTuesday, June 20, 1972 at 11:22 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 344-012 ↗

President Nixon utilized this session in the Old Executive Office Building to dictate a memorandum for his personal files. This administrative action served to document specific presidential reflections or internal records. No further details regarding the substantive content of the memorandum are available due to the absence of a transcript and the existence of a withdrawn segment.

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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 01:03:31 into the tape and ends around 01:09:56.

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On June 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:50 pm and 11:22 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 344-012 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 344-12

Date: June 20, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:50 and 11:22 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the file.

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  • 344-010 8:22 PM · 31 sec — President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:22 pm and 8:42 pm.
  • 344-034 8:22 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:22 pm and 8:42 pm.
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  • 344-011 8:42 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:42 pm to 8:50 pm.
  • 739-001 9:02 AM · 19 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:02 am and 9:10 am.
  • 025-095 9:05 AM · 18 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:05 am and 9:10 am.

Conversation 344-012, June 21, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/344-012 (accessed September 30, 2026).