Nixon White House Tapes ›Tape 628 › Conversation 628-017
Nixon with unidentified visitors in the Oval Office on White House logistics
Thursday, December 2, 1971 · 4:53 PM–4:55 PM ET · Oval Office ·2 min
AI Summary
President Nixon met briefly with an unidentified individual in the Oval Office to discuss scheduling matters. The interaction was brief, lasting less than two minutes, and primarily consisted of logistical exchanges regarding the President's calendar. Due to poor audio quality and limited recorded dialogue, no substantive policy decisions or political developments were captured.
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NARA Description
On December 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:53 pm and 4:55 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 628-017 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 628-17
Date: December 2, 1971
Time: Unknown between 4:53 pm and 4:55 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown man.
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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 04/26/2022.]
[Unintelligible]
[628-017-w001]
[Duration: 1m 44s]
The President’s request [?]
[This portion of the tape is mostly room noise with some muffled background conversation.]
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The President’s schedule
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:55 pm.Also recorded on December 2, 1971
- 015-202 2:07 PM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone from 2:07 pm to 2:19 pm.
- 628-012 2:19 PM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at 2:19 pm.
- 628-013 2:19 PM · 32 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Gordon M. Metcalf, William M. Batten, George P. Shultz, Richard A. Moore, Ronald L. Ziegler, White House photographer, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:19 pm to 2:50 pm.
- 628-014 2:50 PM · 13 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Arthur A. Fletcher, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., White House photographer, and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 2:50 pm to 3:04 pm.
- 628-015 3:04 PM · 9 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:04 pm to 3:05 pm.
- 628-016 3:05 PM · 1 hr 48 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Golda Meir, White House photographer, Manolo Sanchez, Henry A. Kissinger, and Yitzhak Rabin met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:05 pm to 4:53 pm.
- 628-018 4:55 PM · 16 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Rose Mary Woods, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:55 pm to 5:15 pm.
- 628-019 5:15 PM · 18 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Earl L. Butz, Harry A. Blackmun, William P. Rogers, George D. Aiken, Lawton M. Chiles, Jr., Robert J. Dole, James O. Eastland, Robert P. Griffin, Jack R. Miller, Wiley Mayne, Graham Purcell, Martin Sorkin, J. Philip Campbell, Clarence D. Palmby, Richard E. Lyng, Thomas K. Cowden, Ned Bayley, Frank Elliott, Claude W. Gifford, Fritz Behren, James E. Smith, David A. Hamil, Ervin Peterson, Don Brock, Sally Bloom, Martha Lord, Frederic V. Malek, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, Clark MacGregor, John E. Nidecker, William E. Timmons, John C. Whitaker, Alexander P. Butterfield, White House photographer, and members of the press met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:15 pm to 5:35 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 628-017, December 2, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/628-017 (accessed September 18, 2026).