President Nixon recorded a dictated memorandum for his personal files while in his Old Executive Office Building workspace. The recording session, which spanned over seven minutes, served to document internal presidential records or reflections. This dictation acts as a preliminary entry to a memorandum continued in a subsequent recorded conversation.
On October 25, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:20 am and 9:05 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 372-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 372-5
Date: October 25, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:20 am and 9:05 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President dictated a memorandum for the file.
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BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1
[Personal returnable]
[Duration: 7m 24s ]
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(rev. Nov-03)
[This memorandum is continued in Conversation No. 372-7]No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.