Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 653 › Conversation 653-013
United States Secret Service agents on Secret Service and Oval Office
Monday, January 24, 1972 · 12:32 PM–12:33 PM ET · Oval Office · 25 sec
AI Summary
Secret Service agents briefly entered the Oval Office for a short, undocumented interaction with President Nixon. Due to the poor audio quality and lack of transcript, the specific purpose and content of the exchange remain unintelligible. The agents exited the office within less than one minute, resulting in no identifiable developments or decisions.
- Secret Service
- Oval Office
- Security Detail
- White House Operations
Audio
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 24, 1972, United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:32 pm and 12:33 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 653-013 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 653-13 Date: January 24, 1972 Time: Unknown between 12:32 pm and 12:33 pm Location: Oval Office Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met. ****************************************************************************** [Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and released 08/22/2022.] [Unintelligible] [653-013-w001] [Duration: 25s] [This portion of the tape is mostly room noise with some muffled background conversation.] The agents left at an unknown time before 12:33 pm. ******************************************************************************
Also recorded on January 24, 1972
- 653-012 11:59 AM · 34 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Frank L. Rizzo, John D. Ehrlichman, White House photographer, Jacqui Miller, John Caracciolo, Thomas Mulloney, Henry Schoenfeld, Gene Harris, John Katz, Lou Zacharias, Andre Mitchell, Dan Lynch, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:59 am to 12:32 pm.
- 653-014 12:32 PM · 15 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:32 pm and 12:33 pm.
- 653-015 12:33 PM · 13 sec — unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:33 pm and 4:55 pm.
- 019-041 1:05 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:05 pm and 1:51 pm.
- 317-001 1:05 PM · 25 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:05 pm and 1:51 pm.
- 317-002 1:05 PM · 24 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:05 pm and 1:51 pm.
- 317-003 1:05 PM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:05 pm and 1:51 pm.
- 317-004 1:05 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:05 pm and 1:51 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 653-013, January 24, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/653-013 (accessed October 6, 2026).