President Nixon held a brief morning meeting in the Oval Office with an unidentified individual. While no transcript exists to detail the specific dialogue, the interaction was logged as involving a private file. The meeting concluded in less than seven minutes, leaving no official record of substantive policy decisions or action items.
On March 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 7:51 am and 7:58 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 686-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 686-1
Date: March 17, 1972
Time: Unknown between 7:51 and 7:58 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown person.
Private file [?]
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 7:58 am.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.