Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 352 › Conversation 352-027
Nixon White House recording on White House technical operations
Wednesday, August 2, 1972 · 5:36 PM–11:59 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 13 sec
AI Summary
Unidentified individuals, likely technical staff, accessed the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building to perform maintenance. The brief, undocumented interaction focused on the inspection and repair of an unspecified piece of equipment. The conversation concluded abruptly without a finalized record of the technical status or further operational instructions.
- White House technical operations
- OEOB maintenance
- Office equipment repair
- White House taping system
Audio
Transcript (AI-generated)
No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.
NARA Description
On August 2, 1972, unknown persons [possibly technicians] met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:36 pm and 11:59 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 352-027 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 352-27
Date: August 2, 1972
Time: Unknown after 5:36 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
Unknown men [technicians?] entered.
Repair of unknown object
-Analysis
This conversation was cut off at an unknown time.Also recorded on August 2, 1972
- 352-017 1:19 PM · 8 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 1:19 pm and 2:33 pm.
- 028-045 2:33 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 2:33 pm to 2:36 pm.
- 352-022 2:33 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:33 pm to 2:36 pm.
- 028-046 2:36 PM · 10 sec — The recording device engaged on an unknown date, sometime between 2:36 pm on August 2, 1972 and 8:10 pm on August 3, 1972, but the conversation appears to be blank.
- 352-023 2:36 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:36 pm and 2:53 pm.
- 352-024 2:36 PM · 11 sec — 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 2:36 pm and 2:53 pm.
- 352-025 2:36 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:36 pm and 2:53 pm.
- 352-026 2:53 PM · 1 hr 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, John B. Connally, Marjorie P. Acker, Stephen B. Bull, and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:53 pm to 5:36 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 352-027, August 2, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/352-027 (accessed October 1, 2026).