Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 617 › Conversation 617-004

United States Secret Service agents

Friday, November 12, 1971 · 4:02 PM–4:29 PM ET · Oval Office · 13 sec

ParticipantsUnited States Secret Service agentsConversation617-004 on Tape 617 (tape position 00:04:06–00:04:16)StartFriday, November 12, 1971 at 4:02 PMEndFriday, November 12, 1971 at 4:29 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 617-004 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417179759 ↗

A 13-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.

Audio

Download MP3 · 0.5 MB

NARA Description

On November 12, 1971, United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:02 pm and 4:29 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 617-004 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 617-004

Date: November 12, 1971
Time: Unknown between 4:02 pm and 4:29 pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.

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

[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 07/03/2019.]
[Unintelligible]
[617-004-w001]
[Duration: 13s]

[This portion of the tape is mostly room noise with some muffled background conversation.]

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

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 4:29 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 Do not cite it as authoritative — verify against the audio and the finding aid.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).

Thank you all for your time.

Also recorded on November 12, 1971

  • 617-013 3:33 PM · 3 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:33 pm and 3:36 pm.
  • 617-014 3:33 PM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:33 pm and 3:36 pm.
  • 617-015 3:36 PM · 1 min — United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:36 pm and 4:26 pm.
  • 617-001 3:59 PM · 48 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:59 pm and 4:02 pm.
  • 617-002 3:59 PM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:59 pm and 4:02 pm.
  • 617-003 4:02 PM · 5 sec — unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:02 pm and 4:29 pm.
  • 617-016 4:26 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:26 pm and 4:30 pm.
  • 617-005 4:29 PM · 26 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Henry A. Kissinger, Clark MacGregor, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:29 pm and 4:54 pm.

All 64 conversations from November 12, 1971 →

Cite this conversation

Conversation 617-004, November 12, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417179759). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/617-004 (accessed November 15, 2026).