Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 621 › Conversation 621-007

United States Secret Service agents on Oval Office and Security Operations

Thursday, November 18, 1971 · 8:02 AM–6:00 PM ET · Oval Office · 2 min

ParticipantsUnited States Secret Service agents; [Unknown person(s)]Conversation621-007 on Tape 621 (tape position 00:07:42–00:09:33)StartThursday, November 18, 1971 at 8:02 AMEndThursday, November 18, 1971 at 6:00 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 621-007 ↗

AI Summary

This recording captures brief, unintelligible interactions involving United States Secret Service agents and unidentified individuals within the Oval Office. Due to the lack of available transcripts and the poor audio quality of the segments, the specific nature of the discussion remains unknown. No discernable policy decisions, developments, or actionable directives were documented in the surviving records of these brief encounters.

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Position in tape: 00:07:42 – 00:09:33

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NARA Description

On November 18, 1971, United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:02 am and 6:00 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 621-007 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 621-7

Date: November 18, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:02 am and 6:00 pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.

     [Unintelligible]

An unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:02 am and 6:00
p.m.

[Conversation No. 621-7A]

[End of telephone conversation]

An unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:02 am and 6:00
pm.

[Conversation No. 621-7B]

[End of telephone conversation]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 6:00 pm.

Transcript (AI-generated)

No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The recording consists of faint, muffled, unintelligible whispers, static, and ambient room noise, with no discernible transcribed speech.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 621-007, November 18, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/621-007 (accessed November 15, 2026).