Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 409 › Conversation 409-021

Nixon with unidentified visitors in his EOB office on Executive Office…

Thursday, February 8, 1973 · 1:28 PM–1:49 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 12 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]Conversation409-021 on Tape 409StartThursday, February 8, 1973 at 1:28 PMEndThursday, February 8, 1973 at 1:49 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 409-021 ↗

A 12-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.

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On February 8, 1973, 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 1:28 pm and 1:49 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 409-021 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 409-21

Date: February 8, 1973
Time: Unknown between 1:28 pm and 1:49 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with an unknown man.

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The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:49 pm.

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

  • 853-013 1:19 PM · 16 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:19 pm and 1:21 pm.
  • 853-014 1:21 PM · 17 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, John L. Campbell, John D. Ehrlichman, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., White House photographer, Jane Campbell, Charles J. DiBona, George P. Shultz, and Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:21 pm to 2:33 pm.
  • 409-018 1:28 PM · 33 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Zosimo Monson met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:28 pm and 1:49 pm.
  • 043-053 1:49 PM · 16 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 1:49 pm.
  • 409-019 1:49 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 1:49 pm.
  • 043-054 1:50 PM · 13 sec — Charles W. Colson and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 2:15 pm.
  • 043-055 1:50 PM · 1 min — Charles W. Colson and W. Richard Howard talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:50 pm and 2:15 pm.
  • 409-020 1:50 PM · 21 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, unknown person(s), and W. Richard Howard met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:50 pm to 2:15 pm.

Conversation 409-021, February 8, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/409-021 (accessed November 2, 2026).