President Nixon held a brief, eight-minute meeting in the Oval Office with an unidentified individual. While no transcript exists to detail the specific content of their discussion, the encounter involved the exchange of physical items, specifically a briefcase and a book. No further administrative or political context regarding the nature of this interaction has been preserved.
On April 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:07 pm and 12:15 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 903-018 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 903-18
Date: April 20, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:07 pm and 12:15 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with and unknown man.
Briefcase
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
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Conversation No. 903-18
-Book
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 12:15 pm.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.