Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 611 › Conversation 611-023

United States Secret Service agents on Presidential security

Tuesday, November 2, 1971 · 1:13 PM–3:00 PM ET · Oval Office · 34 sec

ParticipantsUnited States Secret Service agentsConversation611-023 on Tape 611 (tape position 04:37:09–04:37:43)StartTuesday, November 2, 1971 at 1:13 PMEndTuesday, November 2, 1971 at 3:00 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 611-023 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417179505 ↗

AI Summary

Secret Service agents gathered in the Oval Office to coordinate security logistics and communicate the President's current location within the Executive Office Building. The brief exchange served as a routine operational update regarding the President's movements. No substantive policy discussions or significant political decisions were recorded during this short security-focused interaction.

Audio

Download MP3 · 1.3 MB

NARA Description

On November 2, 1971, United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:13 pm and 3:00 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 611-023 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 611-23

Date: November 2, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:13 pm and 3:00 pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

*****************************************************************

[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 07/29/2019.]
[Unintelligible]
[611-023-w001]
[Duration: 34s]

     The President’s location
          -Executive Office Building [EOB]

*****************************************************************

The President entered at 3:00 pm.

The conversation was cut off at 3:00 pm.

Transcript (AI-generated)

This transcript was generated automatically by AI (WhisperX) and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Names and numbers are often wrong; speakers are not identified. Do not cite it as authoritative — verify against the audio and the finding aid.

Download transcript (.txt) · JSON data

Click a timestamp to play from that point; the page address then links to that moment (e.g. #t=125).

T6, T6, T6.
T6, T6, T6, T6.

Also recorded on November 2, 1971

  • 013-068 12:56 PM · 58 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Clarence E. Miller talked on the telephone from 12:56 pm to 12:57 pm.
  • 013-069 12:57 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:57 pm and 1:06 pm.
  • 013-070 1:06 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John H. Rousselot talked on the telephone from 1:06 pm to 1:08 pm.
  • 013-071 1:09 PM · 47 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Barber B. Conable, Jr. talked on the telephone from 1:09 pm to 1:10 pm.
  • 611-022 1:13 PM · 10 sec — Alexander P. Butterfield and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:13 pm and 3:00 pm.
  • 013-072 1:15 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:15 pm and 1:30 pm.
  • 300-001 1:15 PM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:15 pm and 1:30 pm.
  • 300-002 1:15 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:15 pm and 1:30 pm.

All 58 conversations from November 2, 1971 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 611-023, November 2, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417179505). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/611-023 (accessed November 14, 2026).