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Nixon White House recording on Oval Office and Personnel matters

Tuesday, March 6, 1973 · 7:01 PM–8:12 AM ET · Oval Office · 1 min

Participants[Unknown person(s)]Conversation870-011 on Tape 870StartTuesday, March 6, 1973 at 7:01 PMEndWednesday, March 7, 1973 at 8:12 AMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 870-011 ↗

AI Summary

An unidentified group, including individuals identified as Lieutenant Hugh and Matthewson, met in the Oval Office for an undocumented purpose. The brief dialogue captures a directive to cease a specific action, though the nature of the task remains obscure. The participants exited the office before the start of the next business day, leaving no further record of their objectives.

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And then you lay off.

NARA Description

Unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 7:01 pm on March 6, 1973 and 8:12 am on March 7, 1973. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 870-011 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 870-11

Date: Unknown between March 6 and 7, 1973
Time: Unknown between 7:01 pm, March 6 and 8:12 am, March 7, 1973
Location: Oval Office

Unknown men met.

       Item [?]

       Location
            -Lieutenant Hugh [?]
            -Matthewson [?]

Unknown men left at an unknown time before 8:12 am, March 7, 1973.

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871-004 8:53 AM · 1 hr 59 min — President Richard M. Nixon, John W. Dean, III, H. R. ("Bob") Haldeman, unknown person(s), William E. Timmons, Stephen B. Bull, Henry A. Kissinger, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:53 am to 10:52 am.
871-006 11:41 AM · 51 sec — Manolo Sanchez and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:41 am and 11:52 am.
871-007 11:52 AM · 16 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Rolf Pauls met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:52 am to 12:09 pm.
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Cite this conversation

Conversation 870-011, March 7, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/870-011 (accessed October 6, 2026).