Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 368 › Conversation 368-021

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

Thursday, October 19, 1972 · 8:27 AM–8:42 AM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 13 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]Conversation368-021 on Tape 368StartThursday, October 19, 1972 at 8:27 AMEndThursday, October 19, 1972 at 8:42 AMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 368-021 ↗

President Nixon held a brief, private meeting with an unidentified male visitor in his Old Executive Office Building suite. Due to the withdrawal of the substantive portion of the recording for personal reasons, no information regarding the specific topics or outcomes of the discussion is available. Consequently, the meeting remains an unclassified administrative interaction without documented policy or political significance.

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On October 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 8:27 am and 8:42 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 368-021 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 368-21

Date: October 19, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:27 am and 8:42 am
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 8:42 am.
  • 031-135 8:04 AM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:04 am and 9:06 am.
  • 368-017 8:25 AM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:25 am to 8:27 am.
  • 368-018 8:27 AM · 16 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 8:27 am and 8:42 am.
  • 368-019 8:27 AM · 1 min — 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 8:27 am and 8:42 am.
  • 368-020 8:27 AM · 9 sec — 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 8:27 am and 8:42 am.
  • 368-022 8:27 AM · 24 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 8:27 am and 8:42 am.
  • 368-023 8:42 AM · 11 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:42 am to 8:55 am.
  • 368-024 8:55 AM · 8 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 8:55 am and 9:06 am.

Conversation 368-021, October 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/368-021 (accessed October 10, 2026).