Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 623 › Conversation 623-014
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
AI Summary
This recording captures a brief meeting between President Nixon and unidentified participants in the Oval Office. The audio consists primarily of room noise and unintelligible background speech, rendering the specific subjects of the discussion impossible to determine. No substantive policy decisions, strategic developments, or administrative actions were documented during this short interaction.
- Oval Office
- White House Tapes
- Unidentified Participants
- Administrative Activities
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NARA Description
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.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
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.]
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
[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.Also recorded on November 23, 1971
- 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.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 623-014, November 23, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/623-014 (accessed October 1, 2026).