President Nixon utilized this session to record a formal memorandum for the record. The meeting served as a dictation period for the President to consolidate his thoughts or directives on specific administrative matters. No other participants were present, and the resulting dictated document remains the sole outcome of this brief Oval Office engagement.
On November 20, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:09 am and 8:37 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 621-011 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 621-11
Date: November 20, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:09 am and 8:37 am
Location: Oval Office
The President dictated a memorandum.
Length of tapeNo transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.