Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 643 › Conversation 643-009

United States Secret Service agents on Oval Office and unidentified personnel

Monday, January 3, 1972 · 6:01 PM–11:59 PM ET · Oval Office · 5 sec

ParticipantsUnited States Secret Service agents; [Unknown person(s)]Conversation643-009 on Tape 643 (tape position 03:12:25–03:21:25)StartMonday, January 3, 1972 at 6:01 PMEndMonday, January 3, 1972 at 11:59 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 643-009 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417183203 ↗

A 5-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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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]

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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 05/11/2022.]
[Personal Returnable]
[643-009-w001]
[Duration: 3s]
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[End of telephone conversation]

The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 11:59 pm.

Transcript (AI-generated)

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  • 087-004 4:44 PM · 12 sec — 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.
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  • 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.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 643-009, January 3, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417183203). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/643-009 (accessed November 13, 2026).