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United States Secret Service agents on Presidential Security

Friday, March 5, 1971 · 2:20 PM–4:20 PM ET · Oval Office · 2 min

ParticipantsUnited States Secret Service agentsConversation462-017 on Tape 462 (tape position 06:11:07–06:13:13)StartFriday, March 5, 1971 at 2:20 PMEndFriday, March 5, 1971 at 4:20 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 462-017 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon met with unidentified Secret Service agents in the Oval Office to discuss security-related matters. The conversation was largely unintelligible and no specific policy decisions or action items were documented in the available record. This brief encounter concluded without any significant developments reported.

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NARA Description

On March 5, 1971, United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:20 pm and 4:20 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 462-017 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 462-17

Date: March 5, 1971
Time: Unknown between 2:20 pm and 4:20 pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown Secret Service agents met

     [Unintelligible]

The unknown Secret Service agents left at an unknown time before 4:20 pm

Transcript (AI-generated)

No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The recording contains only faint, unintelligible whispers, movement noise, and background static, with no intelligible speech.

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  • 462-014 1:06 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Walter R. Tkach, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:06 pm and 1:17 pm.
  • 462-015 1:17 PM · 1 hr 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John A. ("Jack") Mulcahy, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), Stephen B. Bull, John B. Connally, Manolo Sanchez, and William H. Carruthers met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:17 pm to 2:20 pm.
  • 462-016 2:20 PM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at 2:20 pm.
  • 462-018 4:20 PM · 12 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Robert H. Finch met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:20 pm and 4:28 pm.
  • 462-019 4:29 PM · 2 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at 4:29 pm.
  • 462-020 4:29 PM · 3 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at 4:29 pm.
  • 462-021 4:30 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Alexander P. Butterfield, Charles W. Colson, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and 4:40 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 462-017, March 5, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/462-017 (accessed November 2, 2026).