Secret Service agents met with President Nixon in the Oval Office to conduct a brief, routine security-related interaction. The brevity of the encounter and the lack of recorded substance suggest a logistical or administrative exchange typical of presidential protection details. No substantive policy discussions or significant political decisions were documented during this short meeting.
On September 28, 1971, United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:40 pm and 1:41 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 579-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 579-5
Date: September 28, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:41 pm and 3:05 pm
Location: Oval Office
Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.
[Unintelligible]
The unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 3:05 pm.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.