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United States Secret Service agents on Secret Service and Oval Office security

Saturday, September 4, 1971 · 11:14 AM–11:49 AM ET · Oval Office

ParticipantsUnited States Secret Service agentsConversation567-013 on Tape 567 (tape position 02:28:26–02:31:58)StartSaturday, September 4, 1971 at 11:14 AMEndSaturday, September 4, 1971 at 11:49 AMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 567-013 ↗

Secret Service agents met with President Nixon in the Oval Office to discuss internal security and operational matters. Due to the lack of a transcript and the unintelligible nature of the audio, the specific details of their discussion remain unrecorded. The meeting concluded when the agents departed the Oval Office shortly before 11:49 am.

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This conversation has not yet been cut into its own clip, so the player above contains the full tape segment shared with neighbouring conversations. It begins about 02:28:26 into the tape and ends around 02:31:58.

No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.

On September 4, 1971, United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:14 am and 11:49 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 567-013 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 567-13

Date: September 4, 1971
Time: Unknown between 11:17 am and 11:49 am
Location: Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

     [Unintelligible]

The unknown men left at an unknown time before 11:49 am.
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Conversation 567-013, September 4, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/567-013 (accessed October 12, 2026).