Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 788 › Conversation 788-022
United States Secret Service agents on Secret Service and White House security
Friday, September 29, 1972 · 3:05 PM–3:16 PM ET · Oval Office · 26 sec
AI Summary
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.
Audio
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.
NARA Description
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 Aid
Conversation 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.
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.Also recorded on September 29, 1972
- 354-001 2:04 PM · 15 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:04 pm and 3:05 pm.
- 354-002 2:04 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:04 pm and 3:05 pm.
- 354-003 2:04 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:04 pm and 3:05 pm.
- 788-011 3:16 PM · 15 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:16 pm to 3:30 pm.
- 788-012 3:32 PM · 21 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Beurt SerVass, Cory SerVass, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:32 pm to 3:58 pm.
- 788-013 3:58 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:58 pm and 4:04 pm.
- 788-014 3:58 PM · 42 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:58 pm and 4:04 pm.
- 788-015 4:04 PM · 1 hr 11 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Sir Alexander F. Douglas-Home, Henry A. Kissinger, Stephen B. Bull, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:04 pm to 5:15 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 788-022, September 29, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/788-022 (accessed October 12, 2026).