Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 643 › Conversation 643-009
United States Secret Service agents on Secret Service and Oval Office
Monday, January 3, 1972 · 6:01 PM–11:59 PM ET · Oval Office · 5 sec
AI Summary
This brief recording captures an encounter between United States Secret Service agents and unidentified individuals within the Oval Office. Due to the extremely short duration of the audio and the lack of a transcript, no substantive policy discussions, decisions, or political developments are discernible. The segment remains effectively unintelligible for historical analysis.
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Transcript (AI-generated)
No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.
NARA Description
On January 3, 1972, United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 6:01 pm and 11:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 643-009 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 643-9 Date: January 3, 1972 Time: Unknown between 6:01 pm and 11:59 pm Location: Oval Office Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met. [An unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 6:01 and 11:59 pm.] [Conversation No. 643-9A] ********************************************************************** [Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and released 05/11/2022.] [Personal Returnable] [643-009-w001] [Duration: 3s] ********************************************************************** [End of telephone conversation] The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.
Also recorded on January 3, 1972
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- 018-014 4:44 PM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon, William P. Rogers, unknown person(s), and John N. Mitchell talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:44 pm and 5:15 pm.
- 087-002 4:44 PM · 5 min — Unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 4:44 pm on January 3, 1972 and 2:45 pm on January 20, 1972.
- 087-003 4:44 PM — a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 4:44 pm on January 3, 1972 and 2:45 pm on January 20, 1972.
- 087-004 4:44 PM — Unknown person(s) met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 4:44 pm on January 3, 1972 and 2:45 pm on January 20, 1972.
- 018-111 5:15 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone on an unknown date, sometime between 5:15 pm on January 3, 1972 and 11:44 pm on January 8, 1972.
- 643-014 6:00 PM · 17 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 6:00 pm and 6:01 pm.
- 643-015 6:01 PM · 21 sec — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 6:01 pm and 11:59 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 643-009, January 3, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/643-009 (accessed September 29, 2026).