Nixon White House TapesTape 604 › Conversation 604-007

Nixon White House recording on Oval Office and Unidentified participants

Wednesday, October 27, 1971 · 3:45 PM–3:48 PM ET · Oval Office

Participants[Unknown person(s)]Conversation604-007 onTape 604 (tape position 01:04:40–01:05:29)StartWednesday, October 27, 1971 at 3:45 PMEndWednesday, October 27, 1971 at 3:48 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 604-007 ↗

This brief meeting involved unidentified participants meeting with President Nixon in the Oval Office for approximately three minutes. Due to the lack of a transcript and the unintelligible nature of the audio recording, the specific subject matter and any resulting decisions remain historical unknowns. The interaction concluded without any recorded developments or documented action items.

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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 01:04:40 into the tape and ends around 01:05:29.

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

On October 27, 1971, unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:45 pm and 3:48 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 604-007 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 604-7

Date: October 27, 1971
Time: Unknown between 3:45 pm and 3:48 pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown people met.

     [Unintelligible]

Unknown people left at an unknown time before 3:48 pm
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Conversation 604-007, October 27, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/604-007 (accessed September 18, 2026).