Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 819 › Conversation 819-003
United States Secret Service agents on Secret Service and Oval Office
Monday, December 11, 1972 · 2:25 PM–9:57 AM ET · Oval Office · 15 sec
AI Summary
An unidentified Secret Service agent met with an unknown individual within the Oval Office to conduct a brief, private discussion. The recording captures minimal audio, consisting primarily of three seconds of unintelligible content, preventing the identification of specific topics or actionable items. Consequently, the substance and purpose of this interaction remain historically indeterminate due to the lack of available dialogue.
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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 met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 2:25 pm on December 11, 1972 and 9:57 am on December 12, 1972. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 819-003 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 819-3 Date: December 11, 1972 Time: Unknown between 2:25 pm and 9:57 am, December 12, 1972 Location: Oval Office An unknown Secret Service agent talked to an unknown person. ******************************************************************* BEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 [Unitelligible] [Duration: 3s ] END WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1 ******************************************************************* Secret Service agent left at an unknown time between 2:25 pm and 9:57 am, December 12, 1972.
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- 385-005 2:35 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:35 pm and 4:05 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 819-003, December 11, 1972. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/819-003 (accessed October 12, 2026).