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United States Secret Service agents on Secret Service and Oval Office

Tuesday, April 20, 1971 · 8:06 AM–9:46 AM ET · Oval Office · 1 sec

ParticipantsUnited States Secret Service agentsConversation483-003 on Tape 483 (tape position 00:10:13–00:10:42)StartTuesday, April 20, 1971 at 8:06 AMEndTuesday, April 20, 1971 at 9:46 AMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 483-003 ↗

AI Summary

Secret Service agents met with President Nixon in the Oval Office for a brief, routine exchange. The interaction consisted primarily of formal greetings and initial pleasantries. No substantive policy discussions or significant operational decisions were recorded before the conversation ended.

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NARA Description

On April 20, 1971, United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:06 am and 9:46 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 483-003 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 483-3

Date: April 20, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:06 am and 9:46 am
Location: Oval Office

Unknown people (Secret Service agents) met.

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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 02/05/2020.]

[Unintelligible]
[483-003-w001]
[Duration: 29s]

       Greetings

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The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 9:46 am.

Also recorded on April 20, 1971

  • 054-002 7:55 AM · 9 min — Peter G. Peterson, Bryce N. Harlow, Richard H. Poff, and unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 7:55 am and 8:06 am.
  • 483-001 7:55 AM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 7:55 am and 7:57 am.
  • 483-002 7:55 AM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 7:55 am and 8:06 am.
  • 054-003 8:06 AM · 1 hr 39 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, and Republican Congressional leaders, including Hugh Scott, Robert P. Griffin, Margaret Chase Smith, Norris Cotton, Gordon L. Allott, Peter H. Dominick, Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends, Barber B. Conable, Jr., Richard H. Poff, Robert C. ("Bob") Wilson, Robert T. Stafford, Robert J. Dole, George P. Shultz, Peter G. Peterson, Peter M. Flanigan, Dr. James R. Schlesinger, Clark MacGregor, William E. Timmons, Kenneth E. BeLieu, Patrick J. Buchanan, Ernest Stern, C. Fred Bergsten, Jonathan C. Rose, Bryce N. Harlow, Herbert G. Klein, Ronald L. Ziegler, White House photographer, and members of the press, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 8:06 am and 9:44 am.
  • 483-004 9:46 AM · 1 hr 20 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, Stephen B. Bull, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:46 am to 11:15 am.
  • 483-005 11:15 AM · 49 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:15 am and 11:20 am.
  • 483-006 11:20 AM · 10 sec — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:20 am and 11:50 am.
  • 483-007 11:50 AM · 24 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:50 am to 12:15 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 483-003, April 20, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/483-003 (accessed October 3, 2026).