Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 866 › Conversation 866-021
Nixon White House recording on Oval Office and Cleanup
Thursday, March 1, 1973 · 12:39 AM–12:41 AM ET · Oval Office · 12 sec
AI Summary
This brief exchange, recorded in the Oval Office, appears to be a post-meeting or post-event cleanup discussion between President Nixon and an unidentified individual. The primary topic was the "clean up" of something, suggesting the need to remove evidence or finalize arrangements after a prior event. No specific decisions or action items are discernible beyond the general instruction to clean up.
- Oval Office
- Cleanup
- Post-meeting
- Unidentified participants
- Nixon
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NARA Description
On March 1, 1973, unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:39 am and 12:41 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 866-021 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 866-21
Date: March 1, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:39 pm and 12:41 pm
Location: Oval Office
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Conversation No. 866-15 (cont’d)
Two Unknown men met.
Clean up
Two unknown men left at an unknown time before 12:41 pm.Also recorded on March 1, 1973
- 037-012 11:28 PM · 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:28 pm and 11:35 pm.
- 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.
- 866-020 8:42 AM · 9 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.
Cite this conversation
Conversation 866-021, March 1, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/866-021 (accessed October 12, 2026).