President Nixon held a brief, unscheduled meeting with an unidentified individual in the Oval Office. The discussion served as a precursor to the President's subsequent meeting with National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger. No further details regarding the specific topics or outcomes were recorded due to the lack of available transcripts or descriptive logs.
On May 16, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:51 am and 9:07 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 919-001 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 919-1
Date: May 16, 1973
Time: Unknown between 8:51 am and 9:07 am
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown man.
President’s schedule
-Meeting with Henry A. Kissinger
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 9:07 am.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.