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United States Secret Service agents on Secret Service and Oval Office

Tuesday, March 23, 1971 · 6:45 PM–9:32 AM ET · Oval Office ·59 sec

ParticipantsUnited States Secret Service agentsConversation472-025 onTape 472 (tape position 05:31:07–05:32:07)StartTuesday, March 23, 1971 at 6:45 PMEndWednesday, March 24, 1971 at 9:32 AMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 472-025 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon held a brief, informal interaction with Secret Service agents within the Oval Office. The participants exchanged pleasantries and brief remarks before the President instructed them to depart. The recording captures little substantive policy discussion, serving primarily as a logistical record of security personnel movements within the executive workspace.

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Get out of here.
Don't stop me.
Thank you.
Thank you.

NARA Description

United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 6:45 pm on March 23, 1971 and 9:32 am on March 24, 1971. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 472-025 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 472-25

Date: Unknown between March 23 and March 24, 1971
Time: Unknown between 6:45 pm, March 23 and 9:32 am, March 24, 1971
Location: Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents?] met

     President’s location

Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 9:32 am, March 24, 1971

Also recorded on March 23, 1971

  • 051-002 3:00 PM — President Richard M. Nixon, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Caspar W. ("Cap") Weinberger, George Romney, and mayors of United States cities, including Carl B. Stokes, James H. J. Tate, Roman S. Gribbs, Henry W. Maier, Louie Welch, Jack D. Maltester, Sam Massell, Alfonso J. Cervantes, Lee Alexander, Maurice E. ("Moon") Landrieu, John V. Lindsay, Lawrence F. Kramer, Harry G. Haskell, John W. Driggs, Richard G. Lugar, William D. Dyke, Robert J. Blackwell, Thomas J. D'Alesandro, Will H. Hays, Jr., Kevin D. White, Kenneth A. Gibson, Frank Curran, George G. Siebels, Jr., George M. Sullivan, Antonina P. Uccello, Ann H. Kilgore, Robert W. Knecht, Joseph Alioto, Peter F. Flaherty, Patrick Healy, and John J. Gunther, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House from 3:00 pm to 4:45 pm.
  • 051-003 4:45 PM — Unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 4:45 pm on March 23, 1971 and 10:12 am on March 25, 1971.
  • 472-019 4:45 PM · 52 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:45 pm and 4:46 pm.
  • 472-020 4:46 PM · 16 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, James L. Buckley, and William E. Timmons met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:46 pm to 5:04 pm.
  • 472-021 5:05 PM · 32 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Clifford M. Hardin, J. Philip Campbell, George P. Shultz, John D. Ehrlichman, John C. Whitaker, Donald B. Rice, John B. Connally, and William Fitz-Patrick met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:05 pm to 5:38 pm.
  • 472-022 5:38 PM · 24 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Marjorie P. Acker, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:38 pm and 6:07 pm.
  • 472-023 6:02 PM · 28 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Alexander P. Butterfield, Henry A. Kissinger, unknown person(s), and the White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 6:02 pm and 6:40 pm.
  • 472-024 6:40 PM · 53 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 6:40 pm and 6:45 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 472-025, March 23, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/472-025 (accessed September 18, 2026).