Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 418 › Conversation 418-006
Nixon White House recording on Executive Office Building
Friday, March 9, 1973 · 3:05 PM–12:46 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 22 sec
AI Summary
This recording captures an unidentified group of participants meeting with President Nixon in the Old Executive Office Building. The brief and fragmented dialogue consists primarily of an inquiry regarding the President’s location. Due to the incomplete nature of the transcript and the lack of context, no substantive policy decisions or meaningful developments can be discerned.
- Presidential Schedule
- White House Operations
- Executive Office Building
- Fragmented Recording
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Transcript (AI-generated)
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NARA Description
Unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building on an unknown date, sometime between 3:05 pm on March 9, 1973 and 12:46 pm on March 12, 1973. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 418-006 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 418-6
Date: Unknown between March 9 and March 12, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:05 pm, March 9 and 12:46 pm, March 12, 1973
Location: Executive Office Building
Unknown people met.
Inquiry
-President’s location [?]
The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:46 pm, March 1973.Also recorded on March 9, 1973
- 037-070 2:35 PM · 25 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 2:46 pm.
- 037-071 2:35 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and William Downey talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 2:46 pm.
- 037-073 2:46 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 2:46 pm.
- 037-074 2:46 PM · 2 min — Henry A. Kissinger and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 2:46 pm and 2:53 pm.
- 037-075 3:00 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Thomas J. Meskill talked on the telephone from 3:00 pm to 3:02 pm.
- 875-001 3:10 PM · 2 min — unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:10 pm and 3:17 pm.
- 875-005 3:10 PM · 15 sec — unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:10 pm and 3:17 pm.
- 875-002 3:17 PM · 35 min — President Richard M. Nixon, William E. Simon, John T. Dunlop, John D. Ehrlichman, Herbert Stein, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:17 pm to 3:53 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 418-006, March 9, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/418-006 (accessed October 5, 2026).