{"conversationCode":"353-017","tapeNumber":353,"conversationNumber":17,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-353-017","startDateTime":"1972-08-03T18:27:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-08-03T18:30:00.000Z","startDate":"3-Aug-1972","startTime":"2:27 PM","endDate":"3-Aug-1972","endTime":"2:30 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On August 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:27 pm and 2:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 353-017 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 353-17\n\nDate: August 3, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:27 pm and 2:30 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with an unknown person.\n\n       A call from the President\n\nThe unknown person left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm.","filename":["353-017.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"353-016","nextCode":"353-018","transcript":[{"start":2.43,"end":5.35,"text":"But anyway, I got a call and I made it myself."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, three-minute meeting with an unidentified individual in his Old Executive Office Building suite. The dialogue is fragmentary, consisting only of a cryptic reference to a phone call that the President initiated himself. Due to the lack of further transcript evidence, no substantive policy discussions or specific action items were recorded during this interaction.","topics":["Presidential communications","Telephone protocols","Old Executive Office Building","Administrative procedure"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T16:39:25.532Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-communications","telephone-protocols","old-executive-office-building","administrative-procedure"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"353-017.mp3","bytes":205635,"durationSec":8.51,"bitrate":193387,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:44.539Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/353-017.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/353-017","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/353/conversation-353-017","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}