Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 946 › Conversation 946-024

Nixon & Yates on White House logistics and Security systems

Friday, June 22, 1973 · 12:51 PM–3:48 PM ET · Oval Office · 29 min

Participants[Unknown person(s)]; Yates, Nellie L.; Nixon, Richard M. (President)Conversation946-024 on Tape 946StartFriday, June 22, 1973 at 12:51 PMEndFriday, June 22, 1973 at 3:48 PMRecording deviceOval OfficeSourceNixon Library record for 946-024 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon met with Nellie L. Yates and unnamed individuals to oversee logistical and security arrangements within the Oval Office and the Executive Office Building. The discussion focused on operational concerns, including the management of office doors, alarm system settings, and potential filming activities. The encounter concluded with administrative coordination and a brief exchange regarding protocol and personal departures.

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Thank you.

Okay?

Okay.

Over there.

Did somebody go out there and step out to the porch?

Is that the porch?

Thank you.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Is your girl sleeping?

Let me check and see if I'll set it up.

Okay.

Do you want to turn this on?

So it's 100% 100,000.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Now she has one question.

Thank you.

Is your door opening?

If you want to open the door, the alarms won't set up.

Let me check and see if they'll set up.

Do you have a door open please?

Thank you.

Yeah.

Do you want to film anymore?

Yeah, that's cool.

One, two, three, four, five.

So let's have

Thank you.

Oh, my God.

Okay.

Thank you.

NARA Description

On June 22, 1973, unknown person(s), Nellie L. Yates, and President Richard M. Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:51 pm and 3:48 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 946-024 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 946-24

Date: June 22, 1973
Time: Unknown between 12:51 pm and 3:48 pm
Location: Oval Office

Unknown persons met.

       Present time

Nellie L. Yates entered at an unknown time after 12:51 pm.
                                                  -27-

                     NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                                                Conversation No. 946-24 (cont’d)

          Time
                 -Need for something
                        -Deadline

Yates left at an unknown time before 3:48 pm.

          Objects [?]
                 -Request [?]
                 -Deadline [?]

[Pause]

Yates entered at an unknown time after 12:51 pm.

          Question

Yates left at an unknown time before 3:48 pm.

          Objects
                 -Removal
                       -Fourth [?] floor

An unknown person talked an unknown person at an unknown time before 3:48 pm.

          Hold

          Executive Office Building [EOB] [?]

          Door
                 -Openness
                 -People coming through
                 -Complete closure
                 -Chamber

Yates entered at an unknown time after 12:51 pm.
                                             -28-

                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

                                                                Conversation No. 946-24 (cont’d)

       Question

       Door

       Yates
               -Door
                        -Openness
                        -Alarm
                        -Check
                        -Status

       Order
               -Upstairs

       Coverage
             -700
             -Question

       Telephone call
             -Yates

       Apology
             -Yates’s departure
                    -Rudeness

The tape recording cut off at an unknown time before 3:48 pm.

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041-038 12:34 PM · 35 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 12:34 pm to 12:35 pm.
946-017 12:34 PM · 49 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:34 pm and 12:35 pm.
946-018 12:35 PM · 15 sec — President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:35 pm and 12:51 pm.
946-019 12:51 PM · 4 min — Henry A. Kissinger and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:51 pm and 3:48 pm.
946-023 12:51 PM · 6 min — Nellie L. Yates and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:51 pm and 3:48 pm.

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 946-024, June 22, 1973. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/946-024 (accessed October 10, 2026).