Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 862 › Conversation 862-023
Nixon White House recording on Oval Office and Physical inspection
Friday, February 23, 1973 · 12:55 PM–12:57 PM ET · Oval Office · 1 min
AI Summary
This brief two-minute Oval Office meeting involved two unidentified individuals. The conversation appears to have focused on logistical or physical inspections, with fragmented references to a book, a bird, and a road. Due to the lack of a formal transcript and ambiguous subject matter, no significant policy decisions or administrative actions can be confirmed from the surviving recording.
- Oval Office
- Logistics
- Physical inspection
- Unidentified participants
Audio
NARA Description
On February 23, 1973, unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:55 pm and 12:57 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 862-023 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 862-23
Date: February 23, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:55 pm and 12:
Location: Oval Office
Two unknown men met at an unknown time after 12:55 pm.
President’s location [?]
Inspection [?]
-Book [?]
Bird [?]
-Road [?]
Two unknown men left at an unknown time before 12:57 pm.Transcript (AI-generated)
No speech has been transcribed for this recording. An AI model that listened to the whole recording reported: Extremely faint, whispered/muffled voices in a quiet room, completely unintelligible amid background noise and hiss.
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- 043-183 12:33 PM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:33 pm and 3:02 pm.
- 862-014 12:33 PM · 19 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:33 pm and 12:51 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 862-023, February 23, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417182529). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/862-023 (accessed November 15, 2026).