Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 389 › Conversation 389-010
Nixon with unidentified visitors in his EOB office on Presidential meetings
Saturday, November 4, 1972 · 9:33 AM–9:55 AM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 15 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon met with an unidentified individual in the Executive Office Building to discuss matters that remain undocumented due to the lack of an available transcript. As the recording captures only brief interaction between the President and an unknown participant, no specific policy decisions or action items can be verified. The nature of this meeting remains a subject of historical uncertainty regarding the President's private deliberations just days before the 1972 election.
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Transcript (AI-generated)
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NARA Description
On November 4, 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 9:33 am and 9:55 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 389-010 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 389-10
Date: November 4, 1972
Time: Unknown between 9:33 am and 9:55 am
Location: Executive Office Building
The President met with an unknown person.
Instruction
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:55 am.Also recorded on November 4, 1972
- 033-009 9:06 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:06 am and 9:07 am.
- 389-008 9:10 AM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:10 am to 9:12 am.
- 389-009 9:28 AM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:28 am to 9:33 am.
- 033-010 9:55 AM · 7 sec — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:55 am and 10:04 am.
- 033-011 9:55 AM · 24 sec — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:55 am and 10:04 am.
- 033-012 9:55 AM · 8 sec — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:55 am and 10:04 am.
- 033-013 9:55 AM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:55 am and 10:04 am.
- 389-011 9:55 AM · 41 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, unknown person(s), White House operator, Thomas J. Meskill, Stephen B. Bull, Wesley Powell, Beverly Powell, J. Caleb Boggs, Pierre S. DuPont, S. Fletcher Thompson, John K. MacIver, Robert Hirsch, James A. McClure, Margaret Chase Smith, and Howard H. Baker, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:55 am to 10:36 am.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 389-010, November 4, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/389-010 (accessed October 10, 2026).