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United States Secret Service agents on Secret Service

Thursday, August 12, 1971 · 1:17 PM–8:59 AM ET · Oval Office

ParticipantsUnited States Secret Service agentsConversation562-007 on Tape 562 (tape position 04:10:09–04:10:43)StartThursday, August 12, 1971 at 1:17 PMEndFriday, August 13, 1971 at 8:59 AMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 562-007 ↗

AI Summary

Secret Service agents gathered in the Oval Office to discuss the strategic timing of delivering unpleasant information, characterizing it as a psychological advantage. The participants deliberated on adopting an offensive posture regarding international financial instability and speculative threats. The discussion focused on asserting greater control over economic actors to mitigate risks to national interests.

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Transcript (AI-generated)

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4:10:09I have a few, but not a whole lot.
4:10:14Psychologically, this is a good time to get bad news out of the way, I would tell you.
4:10:23Threatening.
4:10:25Well, it's just, if I could just put it, we're not going to have these international, we're not going to have these international buccaneers and gamblers and...
4:10:41Yeah, take the offensive a little bit.
4:10:42Yeah.

NARA Description

United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 1:17 pm on August 12, 1971 and 8:59 am on August 13, 1971. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 562-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

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  • 273-001 1:20 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:20 pm and 2:31 pm.
  • 273-002 1:20 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:20 pm and 2:31 pm.
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Cite this conversation

Conversation 562-007, August 12, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/562-007 (accessed October 9, 2026).