Nixon White House Tapes ›Tape 791 › Conversation 791-015
United States Secret Service agents on Secret Service and White House security
Tuesday, October 3, 1972 · 4:30 PM–11:05 AM ET · Oval Office ·53 sec
AI Summary
United States Secret Service agents met with unknown individuals in the Oval Office to conduct security-related discussions. Due to the lack of a transcript and the unintelligible nature of the audio recordings, the specific substance of these exchanges remains unknown. No actionable intelligence or policy developments can be attributed to these brief, fragmented interactions.
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
United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 4:30 pm on October 3, 1972 and 11:05 am on October 5, 1972. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 791-015 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 791-15
Date: Unknown between October 3, 1972 and October 5, 1972
Time: Unknown between 4:30 pm, October 3, 1972 and 11:05 am, October 5, 1972
Location: Oval Office
Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.
The President’s location
(rev. Nov-03)
An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:30 pm,
October 3, 1972 and 11:05 am, October 5, 1972
[Conversation No. 791-15A]
[Unintelligible]
[End of telephone conversation]
An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 4:30 pm,
October 3, 1972 and 11:05 am, October 5, 1972
[Conversation No. 791-15B]
[Unintelligible]
[End of telephone conversation]
[This conversation was cut off at an unknown time after 4:30pm].Also recorded on October 3, 1972
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- 791-010 3:25 PM · 6 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:25 pm to 3:32 pm.
- 791-011 3:32 PM · 47 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Elliot L. Richardson, David C. Hoopes, John D. Ehrlichman, Kenneth R. Cole, Jr., Stephen B. Bull, unknown person(s), Robert P. Griffin, William E. Timmons, Mark I. Goode, Robert Johnson, and John Marshall Gordon met in the Oval Office of the White House from 3:32 pm to 4:16 pm.
- 791-012 4:16 PM · 16 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:16 pm and 4:24 pm.
- 791-013 4:24 PM · 56 sec — President Richard M. Nixon, Robert P. Griffin, and William E. Timmons met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:24 pm to 4:25 pm.
- 791-014 4:26 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:26 pm to 4:28 pm.
- 146-001 6:00 PM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Camp David operator talked on the telephone at Camp David at an unknown time between 6:00 pm and 7:19 pm.
- 215-001 6:00 PM · 9 min — President Richard M. Nixon, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David at an unknown time between 6:00 pm and 7:19 pm.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 791-015, October 3, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/791-015 (accessed September 18, 2026).