Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 856 › Conversation 856-005
Nixon White House recording on Oval Office and White House Tapes
Wednesday, February 14, 1973 · 6:06 PM–8:15 AM ET · Oval Office · 28 sec
AI Summary
This recording captures an unidentified meeting held in the Oval Office, the specific purpose and content of which remain undetermined due to the lack of available transcripts or descriptive metadata. Given the context of the logging, the encounter serves as an entry in the White House taping system's record for this period. The absence of documentation precludes any identification of participants, discussion topics, or resulting policy decisions.
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
Unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 6:06 pm on February 14, 1973 and 8:15 am on February 15, 1973. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 856-005 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 856-005
Date: February 14 or 15, 1973
Time: Unknown between 6:06 pm, February 14, 1973 and 8:15 am, February 15, 1973
Location: Oval Office
Unknown people met.
Inquiry
Unknown people left at an unknown time before 8:15 am, February 15, 1973.
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542Also recorded on February 14, 1973
- 043-083 5:06 PM · 49 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone from 5:06 pm to 5:07 pm.
- 043-084 5:29 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Elliot L. Richardson talked on the telephone from 5:29 pm to 5:33 pm.
- 856-002 5:29 PM · 3 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Elliot L. Richardson met in the Oval Office of the White House from 5:29 pm to 5:33 pm.
- 043-085 5:33 PM · 21 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:33 pm and 8:04 pm.
- 856-003 5:34 PM · 2 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Gen. Brent G. Scowcroft met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:34 pm and 6:06 pm.
- 856-004 5:34 PM · 30 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:34 pm and 6:06 pm.
- 856-006 6:06 PM · 10 sec — Unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 6:06 pm on February 14, 1973 and 8:15 am on February 15, 1973.
- 856-007 6:06 PM · 1 min — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 6:06 pm on February 14, 1973 and 8:15 am on February 15, 1973.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 856-005, February 14, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/856-005 (accessed October 11, 2026).