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United States Secret Service agents on Secret Service

Tuesday, April 20, 1971 · 12:15 PM–12:37 PM ET · Oval Office · 54 sec

ParticipantsUnited States Secret Service agentsConversation483-008 on Tape 483 (tape position 01:57:55–01:58:35)StartTuesday, April 20, 1971 at 12:15 PMEndTuesday, April 20, 1971 at 12:37 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 483-008 ↗

AI Summary

Secret Service agents met with the President in the Oval Office to discuss security-related matters. The brief, twenty-two-second exchange remains largely unintelligible, providing no substantive record of specific directives or developments. Due to the lack of audible information, no definitive action items or policy decisions can be derived from the audio.

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Transcript (AI-generated)

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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 12:15 pm and 12:37 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 483-008 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 483-8

Date: April 20, 1971
Time: Unknown between 12:15 pm and 12:37 pm
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 02/07/2020.]
[Unintelligible]

[483-008-w001]
[Duration: 22s]

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This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:37 pm.

Also recorded on April 20, 1971

  • 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.
  • 483-009 12:37 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:37 pm to 12:40 pm.
  • 483-010 12:40 PM · 27 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Marcel A. Naville, Melchoir Borsinger, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:40 pm to 1:10 pm.
  • 483-011 1:11 PM · 3 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at 1:11 pm.
  • 483-012 1:11 PM · 16 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at 1:11 pm.
  • 483-013 1:12 PM · 12 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 1:12 pm to 1:25 pm.

All 51 conversations from April 20, 1971 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 483-008, 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/483-008 (accessed October 3, 2026).