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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

Participants[Unknown person(s)]Conversation416-051 on Tape 416StartThursday, March 1, 1973 at 3:02 PMEndThursday, March 1, 1973 at 3:35 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 416-051 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417187411 ↗

A 21-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 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.

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.

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Unknown people left at an unknown time before 3:35 pm.

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Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
  • 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.

Conversation 416-051, March 1, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417187411). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/416-051 (accessed November 15, 2026).