Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 514 › Conversation 514-001
Nixon with unidentified visitors in the Oval Office on Oval Office
Tuesday, June 8, 1971 · 7:53 AM–8:03 AM ET · Oval Office · 23 sec
AI Summary
President Nixon held a brief, informal meeting with unidentified individuals in the Oval Office. The conversation contains minimal intelligible dialogue, consisting mostly of background noise and brief, indistinct directives. Due to the lack of clear content, no substantive policy decisions or actionable items were identified from this exchange.
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NARA Description
On June 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 7:53 am and 8:03 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 514-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 514-1 Date: June 8, 1971 Time: Unknown between 7:53 am and 8:03 am Location: Oval Office The President met with unknown people ****************************************************************************** [Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and released 12/12/2019.] [Unintelligible] [514-001-w001] [Duration: 23s] [This portion of the tape is mostly room noise with some muffled background conversation.] ****************************************************************************** The unknown people left at unknown time before 8:03 am
Also recorded on June 8, 1971
- 514-002 7:53 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 7:53 am and 8:03 am.
- 514-003 7:53 AM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 7:53 am to 7:55 am.
- 514-004 7:55 AM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 7:55 am to 8:02 am.
- 004-066 7:59 AM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and John D. Ehrlichman talked on the telephone from 7:59 am to 8:02 am.
- 004-067 8:02 AM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 8:02 am and 9:44 am.
- 060-001 8:03 AM · 1 hr 38 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Cabinet officers, and staffers, including John B. Connally, Melvin R. Laird, John N. Mitchell, Winton M. ("Red"), Blount, Jr., Rogers C. B. Morton, Clifford M. Hardin, Maurice H. Stans, James D. Hodgson, Elliot L. Richardson, George W. Romney, John A. Volpe, George P. Shultz, Robert H. Finch, Donald H. Rumsfeld, George H. W. Bush, John D. Ehrlichman, Clark MacGregor, Peter M. Flanigan, Peter G. Peterson, Herbert G. Klein, Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., Raymond K. Price, Jr., Ronald L. Ziegler, Robert J. Brown, Edward L. Morgan, Edwin L. Harper, John C. Whitaker, Neal Ball, Egil ("Bud") Krogh, Jr., Raymond J. Waldman, Leonard Garment, John F. Evans, Jr., Lewis A. Engman, Roy D. Morey, Peter Michel, Geoffrey C. Shepard, Martin C. ("Marty") Anderson, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Paul W. McCracken, Caspar W. ("Cap") Weinberger, Arnold R. Weber, and Arthur J. Sohmer, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 8:03 am and 10:31 am.
- 514-020 8:03 AM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at 8:03 am.
- 514-021 8:03 AM · 18 sec — unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:03 am and 9:40 am.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 514-001, June 8, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/514-001 (accessed October 12, 2026).