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Nixon White House recording on Oval Office and White House Tapes

Tuesday, November 23, 1971 · 1:25 PM–3:07 PM ET · Oval Office · 22 sec

Participants[Unknown person(s)]Conversation623-014 on Tape 623 (tape position 03:25:29–03:25:51)StartTuesday, November 23, 1971 at 1:25 PMEndTuesday, November 23, 1971 at 3:07 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 623-014 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417179953 ↗

A 22-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.

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On November 23, 1971, unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 3:07 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 623-014 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 623-014

Date: November 23, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:25 pm and 3:07 pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown men met.

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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 07/10/2019.]

[Unintelligible]
[623-014-w001]
[Duration: 21s]

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

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The unknown men left at an unknown time before 3:07 pm.

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  • 015-116 12:30 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Herbert E. Kaplow talked on the telephone from 12:30 pm to 12:34 pm.
  • 623-008 12:34 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:34 pm and 1:13 pm.
  • 623-009 1:13 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, Alexander P. Butterfield, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:13 pm and 1:18 pm.
  • 623-010 1:18 PM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:18 pm and 1:25 pm.
  • 623-011 1:18 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:18 pm and 1:25 pm.
  • 623-012 1:25 PM · 5 sec — United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 3:07 pm.
  • 623-013 1:25 PM · 9 sec — United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 3:07 pm.
  • 623-015 1:25 PM · 16 sec — United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:25 pm and 3:07 pm.

Conversation 623-014, November 23, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417179953). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/623-014 (accessed November 15, 2026).