Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 725 › Conversation 725-029
Nixon & Haldeman on Treasury Department and John B. Connally
Tuesday, May 16, 1972 · 11:49 AM–11:56 AM ET · Oval Office · 1 min
AI Summary
President Nixon and H. R. Haldeman met briefly in the Oval Office to coordinate the President's upcoming schedule. The discussion focused on logistics for a planned walk to the Treasury Department to meet with John B. Connally and George P. Shultz. The meeting was briefly interrupted by an unknown individual for the delivery of a food order.
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Position in tape: 03:40:00 – 03:41:03
part B, 1:38:09
NARA Description
On May 16, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:49 am to 11:56 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 725-029 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 725-29
Date: May 16, 1972
Time: 11:49 am - 11:56 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Unknown persons
-Location
An unknown person entered at an unknown after 11:49 am.
Food order
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:56 am.
President's schedule
-Walk to Treasury Department
-John B. Connally
-George P. Shultz
Haldeman left.Transcript (AI-generated)
No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: The audio contains only silence, continuous background tone, and tape hiss with no intelligible speech.
Material withdrawn by the National Archives (for privacy or national security) is replaced with a tone or silence in the released audio.
Also recorded on May 16, 1972
- 101-009 11:03 AM · 26 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Cabinet officers and staffers, including John N. Irwin, II, John B. Connally, [David] Kenneth Rush, Richard G. Kleindienst, Rogers C. B. Morton, Earl L. Butz, Peter G. Peterson, James D. Hodgson, Elliot L. Richardson, George W. Romney, John A. Volpe, George P. Shultz, Donald H. Rumsfeld, George H. W. Bush, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, Henry A. Kissinger, Peter M. Flanigan, Clark MacGregor, Dr. Edward E. David, Jr., John A. Scali, Herbert G. Klein, Raymond K. Price, Jr., Ronald L. Ziegler, Alexander P. Butterfield, Charles W. Colson, Frederic V. Malek, Robert J. Brown, Caspar W. ("Cap") Weinberger, Ezra Solomon, and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 11:03 am and 11:59 pm.
- 725-039 11:03 AM · 14 min — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:03 am and 11:30 am.
- 725-027 11:30 AM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House at 11:30 am.
- 725-028 11:31 AM · 5 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John B. Connally met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:31 am to 11:35 am.
- 024-149 11:49 AM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:49 am and 11:54 am.
- 725-030 11:49 AM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, and Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan) Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:49 am and 11:57 am.
- 024-150 11:54 AM · 56 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Thelma C. ("Pat") (Ryan) Nixon talked on the telephone from 11:54 am to 11:55 am.
- 725-031 11:55 AM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon, unknown person(s), H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, John B. Connally, George P. Shultz, Caspar W. ("Cap") Weinberger, and Ronald L. Ziegler met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:55 am and 12:03 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 725-029, May 16, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/725-029 (accessed November 2, 2026).