Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 791 › Conversation 791-015

United States Secret Service agents on Oval Office and Presidential protection

Tuesday, October 3, 1972 · 4:30 PM–11:05 AM ET · Oval Office · 53 sec

ParticipantsUnited States Secret Service agents; [Unknown person(s)]Conversation791-015 on Tape 791StartTuesday, October 3, 1972 at 4:30 PMEndThursday, October 5, 1972 at 11:05 AMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 791-015 ↗

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

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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

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].

Transcript (AI-generated)

No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: Rest of recording contains hiss, room noise, brief phone receiver noises, and silence.

Also recorded on October 3, 1972

  • 791-009 3:25 PM · 10 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at 3:25 pm.
  • 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.

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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 November 2, 2026).