Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 780 › Conversation 780-019
United States Secret Service agents on Oval Office security
Saturday, September 16, 1972 · 12:58 PM–12:59 PM ET · Oval Office · 15 sec
A 15-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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NARA Description
On September 16, 1972, United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:58 pm and 12:59 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 780-019 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 780-19
Date: September 16, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:58 pm and 1:59 pm
Location: Oval Office
Unknown men [Secret Security agents] met.
The President’s location
-Executive Office Building [EOB]
An unknown agent talked with an unknown person between 12:58 pm and 1:59 pm.
[See Conversation No. 780-19A]
The President’s location
[End of telephone conversation]
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:59 pm.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.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 780-019, September 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/780-019 (accessed November 2, 2026).