Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 945 › Conversation 945-008

Nixon with unidentified visitors in the Oval Office on Leonid Brezhnev

Tuesday, June 19, 1973 · 4:30 PM–4:40 PM ET · Oval Office · 42 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]Conversation945-008 on Tape 945StartTuesday, June 19, 1973 at 4:30 PMEndTuesday, June 19, 1973 at 4:40 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 945-008 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon consulted with an aide regarding the logistical arrangements for an upcoming meeting with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. The discussion focused on managing press access, specifically the duration and scope of photographic opportunities at the meeting site. The President emphasized a preference for minimizing media presence and streamlining the encounter to ensure a quick and efficient engagement.

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Now we have had telephone communication.

You should be leaving very shortly.

I have a couple of minutes when he leaves on the road by you so you can go out to the west.

I just want to get a picture of our island there.

All right.

Is there going to be a press picture of the site?

Whatever you would like, I think the press office is interested in that.

We can make it quick, right?

We can make it quick?

Yes, sir.

Oh, we have to.

I don't want to.

I don't want two groups.

It's time to go.

Small group.

Do you want to get our meeting on?

Get on.

It's great.

NARA Description

On June 19, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and 4:40 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 945-008 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 945-8

Date: June 19, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:30 pm and 4:40 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with an unknown man.

     Leonid I. Brezhnev’s schedule
          -Meeting with President
                 -Location
                 -Press coverage
                       -Photographs
                       -Duration
                                            -38-

                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                                          Conversation No. 945-8 (cont’d)

The unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:40 pm.

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945-009 4:30 PM · 30 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Manolo Sanchez met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and 4:40 pm.
945-010 4:30 PM · 20 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:30 pm and 4:40 pm.
945-011 4:40 PM · 4 min — President Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the Oval Office of the White House from 4:40 pm to 4:42 pm.
945-012 4:42 PM · 1 min — United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:42 pm and 11:59 pm.
126-003 4:45 PM · 1 hr 42 min — President Richard M. Nixon and members of diplomatic delegations from the United States and the Soviet Union, including William P. Rogers, Henry A. Kissinger, George P. Shultz, John B. Connally, Peter M. Flanigan, Helmut ("Hal") Sonnenfeldt, Leonid I. Brezhnev, Andrei A. Gromyko, Anatoliy F. Dobrynin, Nikolai S. Patolichev, Andrei M. Aleksandrov, Viktor M. Sukhodrev, and members of the press, met in the Cabinet Room of the White House from 4:45 pm to 6:26 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 945-008, June 19, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/945-008 (accessed October 10, 2026).