Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 686 › Conversation 686-001

Nixon with unidentified visitors in the Oval Office on Oval Office

Friday, March 17, 1972 · 7:51 AM–7:58 AM ET · Oval Office

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]Conversation686-001 on Tape 686 (tape position 00:03:48–00:04:11)StartFriday, March 17, 1972 at 7:51 AMEndFriday, March 17, 1972 at 7:58 AMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 686-001 ↗

AI Summary

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.

Audio

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This conversation has not yet been cut into its own clip, so the players above hold the full tape, shared with neighbouring conversations. By the archivists' log it runs from 00:03:48 to 00:04:11 into the tape; their log often drifts a minute or two from the audio, so listen for the subjects in the finding aid.

NARA Description

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 Aid

Conversation 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.

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.

Also recorded on March 17, 1972

  • 686-002 7:51 AM · 34 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 7:51 am and 7:58 am.
  • 686-003 7:51 AM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 7:51 am and 7:58 am.
  • 686-004 7:58 AM · 10 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 7:58 am to 8:04 am.
  • 686-005 9:54 AM · 41 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:54 am and 9:56 am.
  • 686-006 9:56 AM · 13 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Barbara H. Franklin, Judy Kaufman, Jacqueline G. Gutwillig, Virginia R. Allan, Dr. Margaret Long Arnold, Mrs. Paul Bethel, Lorraine L. Blair, Julie Casterman Connor, Sarah Jane Cunningham, Robert A. Griffin, Maxine R. Hacke, Mrs. Charles M. Hamel, Margaret J. Mealey, Hazel Palmer, Mrs. Chapman Revercomb, Mrs. Daniel H. Wasserman, Irene Wischer, Elizabeth D. Koontz, Catherine East, Bertha Whittaker, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 9:56 am to 10:08 am.
  • 686-007 10:09 AM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House from 10:09 am to 10:13 am.
  • 095-002 10:13 AM · 1 hr 24 min — President Richard M. Nixon and members of the National Security Council, including Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, William P. Rogers, Melvin R. Laird, Gen. George A. Lincoln, John B. Connally, John N. Irwin, II, Richard M. Helms, Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, Ronald I. Spiers, David M. Kennedy, Gerard C. Smith, Philip J. Farley, Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr., [Name withdrawn], Gen. Royal B. Allison, Paul H. Nitze, Henry A. Kissinger, Col. Richard T. Kennedy, Philip A. Odeen, Helmut ("Hal") Sonnenfeldt, and Gardiner L. Tucker, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 10:13 am and 11:54 am.
  • 686-008 11:55 AM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:55 am to 12:00 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 686-001, March 17, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/686-001 (accessed November 2, 2026).