Secret Service agents and unidentified individuals met in the Oval Office to discuss unspecified security or administrative matters. The recorded audio is predominantly unintelligible, consisting of background noise and muffled conversation. Consequently, no substantive policy decisions or actionable items were captured during this brief exchange.
On September 29, 1972, United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:05 pm and 3:16 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 788-022 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 788-22
Date: September 29, 1972
Time: Unknown between 3:05 pm and 3:16 pm
Location: Oval Office
Unknown people [Secret Service agents] met.
(rev. Nov-03)
An unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 3:05 pm and 3:16
pm.
[Conversation No. 788-22A]
The President’s location
[End of conversation]
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[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and
released 08/02/2019.]
[Unintelligible]
[788-022-w001]
[Duration: 45s]
[This portion of the tape is mostly tape noise with some muffled background conversation.]
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The unknown people left at an unknown time before 3:16 pm.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.