Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 643 › Conversation 643-014

Nixon with unidentified visitors in the Oval Office on Oval Office

Monday, January 3, 1972 · 6:00 PM–6:01 PM ET · Oval Office · 17 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]Conversation643-014 on Tape 643 (tape position 03:09:50–03:10:19)StartMonday, January 3, 1972 at 6:00 PMEndMonday, January 3, 1972 at 6:01 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 643-014 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417183213 ↗

A 17-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.

Download MP3 · 0.2 MB

On January 3, 1972, 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. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 643-014 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 643-14

Date: January 3, 1972
Time: Unknown after 6:00 pm until 6:01 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with unknown people.

**********************************************************************

[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 11/08/2022.]
[Unintelligible]
[643-014-w001]
[Duration: 17s]

       H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman [?]

**********************************************************************

The President and the unknown people left at 6:01 pm.

No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.

  • 018-013 4:44 PM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 4:44 pm and 5:15 pm.
  • 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 · 3 min — 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 · 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.
  • 643-009 6:01 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 6:01 pm and 11:59 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.

Conversation 643-014, January 3, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417183213). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/643-014 (accessed November 13, 2026).