Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 866 › Conversation 866-020

Nixon with unidentified visitors in the Oval Office on Oval Office

Thursday, March 1, 1973 · 8:42 AM–9:18 AM ET · Oval Office · 9 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]Conversation866-020 on Tape 866StartThursday, March 1, 1973 at 8:42 AMEndThursday, March 1, 1973 at 9:18 AMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 866-020 ↗ · National Archives Catalog, NAID 417182651 ↗

A 9-second recording. What it contains is described by the archivists' log below; no AI summary is shown for recordings this short.

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On March 1, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:42 am and 9:18 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 866-020 of the White House Tapes.

Conversation No. 866-20

Date: March 1, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:42 am and 9:18 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with an unknown person.

       Instruction [?]

The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:18 am.

No transcript is available yet for this conversation. The recording may contain no audible speech, or it may not have been processed.

  • 866-001 8:42 AM · 11 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:42 am and 9:18 am.
  • 866-002 8:42 AM · 13 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:42 am and 9:18 am.
  • 866-003 9:18 AM · 26 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John W. Dean, III, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:18 am and 9:46 am.
  • 866-004 9:47 AM · 57 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Ronald L. Ziegler, White House operator, Yitzhak Rabin, unknown person(s), and John W. Dean, III met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:47 am and 10:44 am.
  • 037-013 10:05 AM · 15 sec — Henry A. Kissinger and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:05 am and 10:36 am.
  • 037-014 10:05 AM · 1 min — Henry A. Kissinger and Yitzhak Rabin talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:05 am and 10:36 am.
  • 866-005 10:44 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:44 am and 10:57 am.
  • 037-015 10:51 AM · 22 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at 10:51 am.

Conversation 866-020, March 1, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives (NAID 417182651). Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/866-020 (accessed November 10, 2026).