Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 917 › Conversation 917-045
Nixon with unidentified visitors in the Oval Office on Oval Office
Monday, May 14, 1973 · 7:27 PM–8:15 PM ET · Oval Office · 3 min
AI Summary
President Nixon held a brief, informal meeting with unidentified individuals characterized by fragmented dialogue and extraneous remarks. The exchange lacks coherent policy substance or actionable intelligence, consisting largely of colloquialisms and non-sequiturs in multiple languages. No significant administrative decisions or developments resulted from this interaction.
- Oval Office
- informal discourse
- unidentified participants
- historical record
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NARA Description
On May 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 7:27 pm and 8:15 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 917-045 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding Aid
Conversation No. 917-045
Date: May 14, 1973
Time: Unknown between 7:27 pm and 8:15 pm
Location: Oval Office
Unknown persons [United States Secret Service [USSS] agents?] met.
President’s desk
-Pencils [?]
Equipment operation
-Button
An unknown woman entered at an unknown time before 8:15 pm.
Dean [?] [last name unknown]
-Location
-Stephen B. Bull [?]
-President’s desk
-Item
President’s [?] office
The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 8:15 pm.Transcript (AI-generated)
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— 1 min 18 s with no transcribed speech —
Also recorded on May 14, 1973
- 046-033 7:19 PM · 2 min — Ronald L. Ziegler, White House operator, President Richard M. Nixon, and Leonard Garment talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:19 pm and 7:26 pm.
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- 046-035 7:27 PM · 2 min — Leonard Garment and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:27 pm and 8:15 pm.
- 046-036 7:27 PM · 11 sec — Ronald L. Ziegler and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:27 pm and 8:15 pm.
- 046-037 7:27 PM · 2 min — Ronald L. Ziegler and Lawrence M. Higby talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:27 pm and 8:15 pm.
- 046-038 7:27 PM · 19 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:27 pm and 8:15 pm.
- 046-039 7:27 PM · 4 min — Ronald L. Ziegler, Leonard Garment, and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:27 pm and 8:15 pm.
- 436-015 7:27 PM · 1 hr 7 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, Leonard Garment, and Lawrence M. Higby met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 7:27 pm to 8:15 pm.
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Cite this conversation
Conversation 917-045, 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/917-045 (accessed November 15, 2026).