Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 806 › Conversation 806-017
United States Secret Service agents on Secret Service and White House security
Monday, October 23, 1972 · 12:05 AM–8:43 AM ET · Oval Office · 53 sec
AI Summary
United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office to confirm President Nixon’s location at the White House residence. This brief interaction served as a routine security status check regarding the President's whereabouts. No further substantive policy matters were recorded during the exchange.
- Secret Service
- White House security
- Presidential movements
- Oval Office
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NARA Description
On October 23, 1972, United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:05 am and 8:43 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 806-017 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 806-17
Date: October 24, 1972
Time: Unknown between 12:05 am and 8:43 am
Location: Oval Office
Unknown men [Secret Service agents] met.
[Unintelligible]
An unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:05 am and
8:43 am.
[Conversation No. 806-17A]
The President’s location
-Residence
[End of telephone conversation]
The unknown agents left at an unknown time before 8:43 am.Also recorded on October 23, 1972
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- 371-016 7:47 AM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Raymond K. Price, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 7:47 am and 8:34 am.
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- 371-019 8:34 AM · 42 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:34 am to 9:17 am.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 806-017, October 23, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/806-017 (accessed October 9, 2026).