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Nixon with unidentified visitors in his EOB office on White House tapes

Thursday, June 29, 1972 · 2:35 PM–2:40 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]Conversation345-007 on Tape 345 (tape position 00:13:59–00:14:30)StartThursday, June 29, 1972 at 2:35 PMEndThursday, June 29, 1972 at 2:40 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 345-007 ↗

President Nixon held a brief, five-minute meeting with an unidentified individual in the Old Executive Office Building. The primary content of the discussion remains inaccessible due to the withdrawal of the recording segment for personal return, leaving no record of the topics addressed or decisions reached. Consequently, the purpose and nature of this interaction remain historically unknown.

part A, 13:59

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This conversation has not yet been cut into its own clip, so the players above hold the full tape, shared with neighbouring conversations. By the archivists' log it runs from 00:13:59 to 00:14:30 into the tape; their log often drifts a minute or two from the audio, so listen for the subjects in the finding aid.

On June 29, 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 2:35 pm and 2:40 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 345-007 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 345-7

Date: June 29, 1972
Time: Unknown between 2:35 and 2:40 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown person.

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[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 15s ]

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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:40 pm.

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

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Conversation 345-007, June 29, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/345-007 (accessed November 14, 2026).