President Nixon held a brief, three-minute meeting with Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office. The conversation functioned as a short administrative check-in or unscheduled consultation between the President and his National Security Advisor. Given the lack of a transcript, no specific policy decisions or action items were documented for this encounter.
On April 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry Ahlgren met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:59 am and 11:02 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 480-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 480-1 Date: April 15, 1971 Time: Unknown between 10:59 am and 11:02 am Location: Oval Office The President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger]
No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.