Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 523 › Conversation 523-007
Nixon White House recording on Oval Office and White House Tapes
Wednesday, June 16, 1971 · 6:05 PM–7:55 AM ET · Oval Office · 2 min
AI Summary
This recording captures a brief, largely unintelligible interaction between unidentified participants within the Oval Office. Due to the high level of ambient room noise and muffled audio, no discernable topics, policy discussions, or actionable decisions were recorded. The segment serves as an administrative artifact of the taping system rather than a substantive record of executive deliberation.
- Oval Office
- White House Tapes
- Unintelligible audio
- Administrative record
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NARA Description
Unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 6:05 pm on June 16, 1971 and 7:55 am on June 17, 1971. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 523-007 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 523-007
Date: Unknown between June 16 and June 17, 1971
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
Time: Unknown between 6:05 pm, June 16 and 7:55 am, June 17, 1971
Location: Oval Office
Unknown people met at an unknown time after 6:05 pm.
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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 06/24/2019.]
[Unintelligible]
[523-007-w001]
[Duration: 1m 44s]
[This portion of the tape is mostly room noise with some muffled background conversation.]
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Unknown people left at an unknown time before 7:55 am on June 17, 1971.Also recorded on June 16, 1971
- 523-008 4:29 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:29 pm to 4:30 pm.
- 523-005 4:30 PM · 47 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Alexander P. Butterfield, John M. O'Neill, Melvin Stephens, Charles W. Colson, Stephen B. Bull, Manolo Sanchez, Henry A. Kissinger, White House operator, unknown person(s), and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:30 pm to 5:15 pm.
- 005-094 5:10 PM · 23 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 5:10 pm to 5:11 pm.
- 523-006 5:16 PM · 46 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), Ronald L. Ziegler, Henry A. Kissinger, Lawrence M. Higby, and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:16 pm to 6:05 pm.
- 005-095 7:46 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 7:46 pm.
- 005-096 7:47 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 7:47 pm.
- 005-097 7:48 PM · 8 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 7:48 pm to 7:56 pm.
- 005-098 7:56 PM · 23 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 7:56 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 523-007, June 16, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/523-007 (accessed October 22, 2026).