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United States Secret Service agents on Secret Service

Friday, February 23, 1973 · 2:36 PM–9:50 PM ET · Oval Office · 6 min

ParticipantsUnited States Secret Service agentsConversation863-001 on Tape 863StartFriday, February 23, 1973 at 2:36 PMEndSaturday, February 24, 1973 at 9:50 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 863-001 ↗

AI Summary

This recording captures various unidentified individuals, likely Secret Service or technical personnel, coordinating routine maintenance and logistical tasks within the Oval Office. The participants discuss operational issues, including telephone repair protocols, the admittance of service workers, and adjustments to personnel schedules. The conversation primarily serves as a logistical briefing regarding facility access and equipment maintenance rather than high-level policy deliberation.

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Transcript (AI-generated)

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Ja.
Ja.
Ja.
You can do that thing all over again.
Yeah.
That's true.
Most of the time, you have to get up, you know, and that's when it's almost time to start getting ready to go.
Yeah.
All right, let's begin.
Yeah, three, two, one.
Oh, shit.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
I just want to light it up.
Every time I kick it, it kicks me back harder.
Come on.
Yes?
That's action.
Can you say something, please?
Yeah.
That's it, please.
I'll put it back.
Hold the seatbelt.
Hold the button.
Hold the button.
Hold the button.
Hold the button.
Hold the button.
Hold the button.
Hold the button.
The only important slip would be the part where I wanted to put that down.
Yeah, he said, let me go see.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That's the wall.
Oh, yeah.
So I get 23...
Hello, Caps.
Thank you.
Yeah, well, we haven't been on my DSD, man.
We just found the DSD, man, where we can get in there to change cars.
So, it'll be about five minutes.
Okay, bye.
Thank you for watching!

NARA Description

United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 2:36 pm on February 23, 1973 and 9:50 pm on February 24, 1973. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 863-001 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 863-1

Date: Unknown between February 23 and 24, 1973
Time: Unknown between 2:36 pm, Feb. 23 and 9:50 pm, Feb. 24, 1973
Location: Oval Office

Unknown people [Executive Protective Service (EPS)?] met.

       Antenna

       Training

       Weather [?]

       Leg

An unknown person talked with an unknown man at an unknown time between 2:36 pm, Feb 23,
1973 and 9:50 pm, Feb. 24, 1973.

[Conversation No. 863-1A]

       General Service Administration [GSA] phone division [?]
             -Repairs [?]

[End of telephone conversation]

       Arrival of an unnamed person

An unknown person talked with an unknown man at an unknown time between 2:36 pm, Feb 23,
1973 and 9:50 pm, Feb. 24, 1973.

[Conversation No. 863-1B]

       Mike Urstein [?]
                                              -2-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                                             Conversation No. 863-1 (cont’d)

[End of telephone conversation]

       Telephone repair [?]
             -Presence of worker
             -Admittance of other workers

An unknown person talked with an unknown man at an unknown time between 2:36 pm, Feb 23,
1973 and 9:50 pm, Feb. 24, 1973.

[Conversation No. 863-1C]

       Someone's schedule
            -[First name unknown] Katz [?]
            -Changing a card

[End of telephone conversation]

       Telephone repair
             -Directions
                     -Admittance of workers

The unknown people left at an unknown time before 9:50 pm, Feb. 24, 1973.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 863-001, February 23, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/863-001 (accessed October 1, 2026).