Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 917 › Conversation 917-024

Nixon & Higby on White House administration and Presidential correspondence

Monday, May 14, 1973 · 12:03 PM–12:04 PM ET · Oval Office · 52 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); Higby, Lawrence M.Conversation917-024 on Tape 917StartMonday, May 14, 1973 at 12:03 PMEndMonday, May 14, 1973 at 12:04 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 917-024 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon met with aide Lawrence M. Higby to briefly discuss the status of a requested report and the administrative handling of presidential correspondence. Nixon inquired about specific documentation regarding his expressed concerns over public demonstrations. The conversation concluded without a definitive resolution, reflecting the President's ongoing preoccupation with political optics during the Watergate era.

White House administration
Presidential correspondence
Public demonstrations
Executive oversight
Reporting procedures

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Is there a report?

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah.

All right.

Let me say, I checked Rose, and I'm using .

Which has nothing to do with this.

It simply indicates that I express concern on why I couldn't go or somebody get out some of the activities of their demonstrations

Right.

So, I don't know.

I don't know.

NARA Description

On May 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Lawrence M. Higby met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:03 pm to 12:04 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 917-024 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 917-024

Date: May 14, 1973
Time: 12:03 pm - 12:04 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President talked with Lawrence M. Higby.

[See Conversation No. 046-027]

Also recorded on May 14, 1973

046-026 11:59 AM · 12 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 11:59 am and 12:03 pm.
917-021 11:59 AM · 14 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the Oval Office of the White House at 11:59 am.
917-022 11:59 AM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:59 am and 12:03 pm.
917-023 11:59 AM · 8 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:59 am and 12:03 pm.
046-027 12:03 PM · 58 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Lawrence M. Higby talked on the telephone from 12:03 pm to 12:04 pm.
917-025 12:04 PM · 15 min — President Richard M. Nixon, unknown person(s), Vera Clemente, William S. Moorhead, Hugh Scott, Richard S. Schweiker, Jaime Benitez, Willie Stargell, Manny Sanguillen, Orlando Zabala, Kenneth Davis, Paul Nieves, and members of the press met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:04 pm to 12:19 pm.
917-026 12:19 PM · 6 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:19 pm and 12:24 pm.
917-027 12:19 PM · 1 min — President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:19 pm and 12:24 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 917-024, May 14, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/917-024 (accessed October 1, 2026).