Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 758 › Conversation 758-020

Nixon & Kiernan on Law enforcement and Oval Office meeting

Tuesday, August 1, 1972 · 5:20 PM–5:21 PM ET · Oval Office · 13 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Kiernan, Edward J.Conversation758-020 on Tape 758StartTuesday, August 1, 1972 at 5:20 PMEndTuesday, August 1, 1972 at 5:21 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 758-020 ↗

A 13-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.

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On August 1, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Edward J. Kiernan met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:20 pm to 5:21 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 758-020 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 758-20

Date: August 1, 1972
Time: 5:20 pm - 5:21 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with Edward J. Kiernan.

[See Conversation No. 28-37; one item has been withdrawn]

No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.

  • 758-018 5:17 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:17 pm and 5:20 pm.
  • 758-019 5:17 PM · 34 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Stephen B. Bull, and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:17 pm and 5:20 pm.
  • 028-037 5:20 PM · 18 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Edward J. Kiernan talked on the telephone from 5:20 pm to 5:21 pm.
  • 758-021 5:21 PM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:21 pm and 5:22 pm.
  • 758-022 5:22 PM · 26 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:22 pm to 5:23 pm.
  • 028-038 5:23 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John McCarroll, Jim Keys, and Elmer Roger talked on the telephone from 5:23 pm to 5:26 pm.
  • 758-023 5:23 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon and John McCarroll met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:23 pm to 5:26 pm.
  • 028-039 5:26 PM · 10 sec — The recording device engaged on an unknown date, sometime between 5:26 pm on August 1, 1972 and 9:33 am on August 2, 1972, but the conversation appears to be blank.

Conversation 758-020, August 1, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/758-020 (accessed November 15, 2026).