Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 679 › Conversation 679-016
United States Secret Service agents on Secret Service
Tuesday, March 7, 1972 · 8:03 AM–9:58 AM ET · Oval Office · 32 sec
AI Summary
United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office to coordinate security logistics regarding the President's location. The brief exchange focused on procedural caution as the President moved to the Cabinet Room. No further substantive policy matters were recorded during this short security-related interaction.
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NARA Description
On March 7, 1972, United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:03 am and 9:58 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 679-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 679-16
Date: March 7, 1972
Time: Unknown between 8:03 am and 9:58 am
Location: Oval Office
Unknown men [Secret Service] agents met.
The President’s location
-Cabinet Room
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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 09/20/2022.]
[Unintelligible]
[679-016-w001]
[Duration: 10s]
An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:03 and 9:58
am.
[Conversation 679-16A]
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[End of telephone conversation]
The unknown agents left at an unknown time before 9:58 am.Also recorded on March 7, 1972
- 679-001 7:55 AM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 7:55 am to 8:03 am.
- 094-001 8:04 AM · 1 hr 57 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Elliot Richardson, and Republican Congressional leaders, including Charls E. Walker, Hugh Scott, Robert P. Griffin, Gordon L. Allott, Norris Cotton, Margaret Chase Smith, Peter H. Dominick, Wallace F. Bennett, Gerald R. Ford, Leslie C. Arends, John B. Anderson, Barber B. Conable, Jr., Richard H. Poff, Robert C. ("Bob") Wilson, John J. Rhodes, H. Allen Smith, Samuel L. Devine, John W. Byrnes, Robert J. Dole, John D. Ehrlichman, George P. Shultz, Clark MacGregor, William E. Timmons, Herbert G. Klein, Harry S. Dent, Thomas C. Korologos, Ronald L. Ziegler, Noel C. Koch, and Richard K. Cook, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House from 8:04 am to 9:58 am.
- 021-008 9:58 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:58 am and 10:57 am.
- 679-002 9:58 AM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. Allen Smith, Clark MacGregor, and William E. Timmons met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:58 am to 10:02 am.
- 679-003 10:02 AM · 30 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:02 am and 10:05 am.
- 679-004 10:07 AM · 39 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:07 am to 10:48 am.
- 679-005 10:48 AM · 18 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:48 am to 10:49 am.
- 679-006 10:49 AM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield, Bennett Applegate, Ruth Huenemann, Jacqueline Johnson, Josephine Martin, John F. Murphy, Dale Farnell, Edward Schwartzkopf, Cola D. Warson, Roger Whitcomb, Richard E. Lyng, Edward J. Hekman, Herbert D. Rorey, Russell H. James, White House photographer, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:49 am to 10:57 am.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 679-016, March 7, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/679-016 (accessed October 12, 2026).