{"conversationCode":"249-003","tapeNumber":249,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-249-003","startDateTime":"1971-04-15T13:36:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-15T13:42:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Apr-1971","startTime":"8:36 AM","endDate":"15-Apr-1971","endTime":"8:42 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On April 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 8:36 am to 8:42 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 249-003 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 249-3\n\nDate: April 15, 1971\nTime: 8:36 am - 8:42 am\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nRose Mary Woods talked with the President\n\n[See Conversation No. 42-41]","filename":["249-003.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:01:35","tapeEnd":"00:03:57","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"249-002","nextCode":"249-004","transcript":[{"start":1.46,"end":1.88,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":2.94,"end":5.36,"text":"That's all right."},{"start":5.88,"end":9.28,"text":"There's nothing here."},{"start":10.9,"end":12.72,"text":"I'm just going to ."},{"start":12.92,"end":16.5,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":16.69,"end":20.27,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":20.29,"end":23.11,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":44.99,"end":48.63,"text":"All right, yeah, yeah, yeah."},{"start":49.71,"end":52.28,"text":"I don't think anybody."},{"start":74.27,"end":83.25,"text":"They, uh, what's he called, a hoover?"},{"start":84.69,"end":87.72,"text":"Yeah, I don't know."},{"start":87.74,"end":95.08,"text":"So they, uh, so they must be, in fact, surveilling Earth."},{"start":95.32,"end":98.07,"text":"Is there anybody who cares?"},{"start":100.05,"end":102.65,"text":"They're so full of them."},{"start":103.39,"end":104.56,"text":"On the other hand, on the other hand."},{"start":105.28,"end":107.14,"text":"Stay out on the other hand, or I'm gonna run down."},{"start":107.48,"end":107.72,"text":"Right."},{"start":108.79,"end":109.85,"text":"You got a red dot?"},{"start":109.87,"end":110.69,"text":"Okay, I got a red dot."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, discuss administrative matters and potential security concerns regarding electronic surveillance. The brief exchange touches upon the activities of J. Edgar Hoover and the presence of monitoring devices within the office environment. No definitive policy decisions were reached during this informal check-in regarding office security protocols.","topics":["Electronic surveillance","J. Edgar Hoover","Office administration","White House security","Rose Mary Woods"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T11:38:16.718Z"},"topicSlugs":["electronic-surveillance","j-edgar-hoover","office-administration","white-house-security","rose-mary-woods"],"audioDurationSec":114,"audioFiles":[{"file":"249-003.mp3","bytes":4560659,"durationSec":113.88,"bitrate":320391,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.695Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/249-003.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/249-003","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/249/conversation-249-003","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}