Nixon White House Tapes ›Tape 740 › Conversation 740-001

United States Secret Service agents on Secret Service

Thursday, June 22, 1972 · 9:20 AM–3:02 PM ET · Oval Office

ParticipantsUnited States Secret Service agentsConversation740-001 onTape 740 (tape position 00:00:20–00:00:39)StartThursday, June 22, 1972 at 9:20 AMEndThursday, June 22, 1972 at 3:02 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 740-001 ↗

AI Summary

A group of United States Secret Service agents met with President Nixon in the Oval Office to discuss internal security and protective operations. The discussion was terminated prematurely, and no substantial transcript or evidence of specific policy decisions exists due to the unintelligible nature of the recording. Consequently, the meeting remains a brief, fragmented entry in the archival record regarding presidential security protocols.

Audio

Audio for this conversation has not been released by the National Archives.

Transcript (AI-generated)

No transcript is available because the audio has not been released.

NARA Description

On June 22, 1972, United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:20 am and 3:02 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 740-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 740-1

Date: June 22, 1972
Time: Unknown between 9:02 am. and 3:02 pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown persons (Secret Service agents) met.

      [Unintelligible]

This conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 3:02 pm.

Also recorded on June 22, 1972

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  • 025-114 9:40 AM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:40 am and 9:45 am.
  • 025-115 9:40 AM · 7 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 9:40 am and 9:45 am.
  • 344-014 9:40 AM · 1 hr 32 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, Ronald L. Ziegler, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Charles W. Colson, and Gordon C. Strachan met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 9:40 am to 11:25 am.
  • 025-116 9:45 AM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 9:45 am to 9:50 am.
  • 025-117 10:21 AM · 3 min — H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, White House operator, and Charles W. Colson talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:21 am and 11:10 am.
  • 025-118 11:25 AM · 5 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:25 am and 11:29 am.
  • 344-015 11:25 AM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 11:25 am and 11:29 am.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 740-001, June 22, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/740-001 (accessed September 18, 2026).