President Nixon held a brief, unscheduled meeting in the Oval Office with an unidentified individual, during which J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr. was also present. The conversation lasted less than one minute, precluding any substantive discussion or record of specific decisions. Due to the lack of available transcripts or descriptive logs, the precise purpose of this brief encounter remains officially undocumented.
On June 22, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 3:48 pm and 3:49 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 946-020 of the White House Tapes.
Nixon Library Finding AidConversation No. 946-20
Date: June 22, 1973
Time: Unknown between 3:48 pm and 3:49 pm
Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown man.
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Conversation No. 946-20 (cont’d)
President’s schedule
-Meeting with J. Fred Buzhardt, Jr.
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:49 pm.No transcript is available for this conversation. The audio may not contain audible speech, or the recording may not yet have been processed.