President Nixon met briefly with an unidentified individual in the Oval Office to provide a specific instruction regarding the removal of an unknown item. The meeting concluded immediately following this directive, lasting less than one minute. No further details regarding the nature of the object or the identity of the visitor were recorded.
On July 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at 11:33 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 747-016 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 747-16
Date: July 19, 1972
Time: 11:33 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown person.
Instruction to remove an unknown item
The unknown person left at 11:33 am.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.