President Nixon held a brief, unscheduled meeting in the Oval Office with an unidentified individual, potentially Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler. Due to the lack of an available transcript and the extremely short duration of the recording, the specific subject matter remains undocumented. No formal policy decisions or concrete action items were captured during this three-minute interval.
On May 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:17 am and 8:20 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 909-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 909-1
Date: May 2, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:17 am and 8:20 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown person. The recording began at an unknown time while the
conversation was in progress.
Ronald L. Ziegler [?]
-Location [?]
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:20 am.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.