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.
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 AidConversation 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 pmNo transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.