Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 476 › Conversation 476-001
Nixon White House recording on Oval Office and Unidentified participants
Tuesday, April 6, 1971 · 12:27 PM–8:59 PM ET · Oval Office · 9 sec
AI Summary
This recording consists of a brief nine-second segment involving unidentified participants in the Oval Office. Due to the extremely short duration of the audio and the lack of transcript content, the specific context, subject matter, and any associated policy decisions remain entirely undetermined. The fragment provides no substantive historical record regarding White House operations or deliberations.
- Oval Office
- Unidentified participants
- Inconclusive record
- White House Tapes
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NARA Description
On April 6, 1971, unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:27 pm and 8:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 476-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 476-1
Date: Unknown between April 6 and April 7, 1971
Time: Unknown between 12:27 pm, April 6 and 8:59 pm, April 7, 1971
Location: Oval Office
An unknown person entered
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[Previous non-historical (H) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 04/16/2019. Segment
cleared for release.]
[Non-Historical Returnable]
[476-001-w001]
[Duration: 9s]
Time
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Recording was cut off at an unknown time before 8:59 pm, April 7, 1971Also recorded on April 6, 1971
- 001-003 11:53 AM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:53 am and 12:10 pm.
- 001-004 11:53 AM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:53 am and 12:10 pm.
- 475-004 11:55 AM · 24 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, Edward L. Morgan, Dana G. Mead, James McLane, John Gartland, John F. Evans, Jr., Edwin L. Harper, Raymond J. Waldeman, William F. Rhatican, Donald B. Rice, Donald E. Crabill, David Page, Roger Adkins, Richard P. Nathan, William Robinson, James Blum, Harry S. Havens and William Hamm, Wilfred H. Rommel, C. William Fischer, Naomi Sweeney, Richard K. Cook, John Russell Deane, III, Bill Fuller, Murray L. Weidenbaum, Robert Joss, William H. Johnson, Richard W. Velde, Jerry Copf, Charles J. Orlebeck, Henry Ahlgren, William W. Blunt, John P. Olsson, Malcolm R. Lovell, Jr., Christopher T. Cross, John R. Ottina, Ned Granlich, Larry Thompson, White House photographer, Peter Michel, Rainer Barzel, Rolf Pauls, and William Hamm met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:55 am and 12:20 pm.
- 001-006 12:14 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Clifford M. Hardin, and Claude W. Gifford talked on the telephone from 12:14 pm to 12:17 pm.
- 475-005 12:17 PM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:17 pm and 12:20 pm.
- 475-006 12:20 PM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Don Wright, Rogers C. B. Morton, Ted Stevens, Fritz Behren, Leonard Garment, Bradley H. Patterson, Jr., Barbara ("Bobbie") (Greene) Kilberg, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:20 pm to 12:25 pm.
- 475-007 12:25 PM · 55 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:25 pm and 12:27 pm.
- 245-018 1:00 PM · 36 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:00 pm and 1:45 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 476-001, April 6, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/476-001 (accessed October 12, 2026).