President Nixon held a brief, two-second meeting in the Oval Office with an unidentified individual. Given the extremely short duration of the encounter and the withdrawal of materials classified as personal and returnable, the interaction appears to have been limited to a brief exchange or document hand-off. No substantive discussion or policy decisions were recorded during this engagement.
On March 5, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at 4:29 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 462-019 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 462-19 Date: March 5, 1971 Time: 4:29 pm Location: Oval Office The President met with an unknown person ********************************************************************** BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Personal Returnable] [Duration: 2s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ********************************************************************** The unknown person left at 4:29 pm
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.