Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 416 › Conversation 416-051
Nixon White House recording on White House Tapes and Unidentified meeting
Thursday, March 1, 1973 · 3:02 PM–3:35 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 21 sec
AI Summary
This recording captures an unidentified meeting held in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building. Due to the lack of intelligible dialogue in the transcript, no substantive topics, decisions, or action items can be discerned. The brief audio primarily consists of indistinct affirmative remarks that provide no historical or policy insight.
- White House Tapes
- Unidentified meeting
- Executive Office Building
- Background audio
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Transcript (AI-generated)
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NARA Description
On March 1, 1973, unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:02 pm and 3:35 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 416-051 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 416-51
Date: March 1, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:02 pm and 3:35 pm
Location: Executive Office Building
Unknown people met.
Verification
Unknown people left at an unknown time before 3:35 pm.Also recorded on March 1, 1973
- 866-018 3:02 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:02 pm and 3:06 pm.
- 866-019 3:06 PM · 25 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Robert Roth, Walter R. Tkach, Richard L. Wilson, John L. Steele, Lucian C Warren, Jerald F. ("Jerry") terHorst, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:06 pm to 3:30 pm.
- 866-023 3:30 PM · 5 min — Unknown person(s) and United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 3:30 pm on March 1, 1973 and 11:00 am on March 2, 1973.
- 416-007 3:35 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:35 pm to 3:36 pm.
- 416-008 3:36 PM · 6 min — 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 3:36 pm and 4:00 pm.
- 416-009 4:00 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:00 pm to 4:01 pm.
- 037-019 4:01 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:01 pm and 4:42 pm.
- 416-010 4:01 PM · 9 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 4:01 pm and 4:42 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 416-051, March 1, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/416-051 (accessed October 1, 2026).