{"conversationCode":"354-008","tapeNumber":354,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-354-008","startDateTime":"1972-10-02T17:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-02T18:37:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Oct-1972","startTime":"1:40 PM","endDate":"2-Oct-1972","endTime":"2:37 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\");","description":"On October 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 1:40 pm and 2:37 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 354-008 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. 354-8\n\nDate: October 2, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 1:40 pm and 2:37 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal returnable]\n[Duration: 10m 59s    ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n*****************************************************************","filename":["354-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\")"],"prevCode":"354-007","nextCode":"354-009","transcript":[{"start":10.38,"end":10.64,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Richard Nixon met with H. R. Haldeman in the Old Executive Office Building to discuss confidential administrative or personal matters. The majority of the meeting's content remains restricted due to the withdrawal of the primary recording segment. Consequently, no substantive policy decisions or actionable directives are available for historical analysis from this specific transcript.","topics":["White House administration","Presidential records","H. R. Haldeman","Executive Office Building"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T16:40:51.040Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-administration","presidential-records","h-r-haldeman","executive-office-building"],"audioDurationSec":13,"audioFiles":[{"file":"354-008.mp3","bytes":319110,"durationSec":13.24,"bitrate":192815,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:44.539Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:25.525Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/354-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/354-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/354/conversation-354-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}