{"conversationCode":"398-017","tapeNumber":398,"conversationNumber":17,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-398-017","startDateTime":"1973-01-23T00:56:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-23T01:15:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Jan-1973","startTime":"7:56 PM","endDate":"22-Jan-1973","endTime":"8:15 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On January 22, 1973, 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 7:56 pm and 8:15 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 398-017 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":"5.3","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part III","chronReleaseDate":"23-Jun-2009","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 398-17\n\nDate: January 22, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 7:56 am and 8:15 am\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with an unknown person.\n\n       President's schedule\n             -Henry A. Kissinger\n\nThe unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:15 am.","filename":["398-017.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"398-016","nextCode":"399-001","transcript":[{"start":12.54,"end":12.86,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with an unidentified individual in the Old Executive Office Building to review the presidential schedule, specifically concerning the activities of National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. Due to the lack of a recorded transcript, the substantive details of the discussion remain unknown. The meeting concluded shortly after the brief exchange, with the visitor departing before 8:15 am.","topics":["Presidential schedule","Henry Kissinger","White House operations","Scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:12:00.727Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-schedule","henry-kissinger","white-house-operations","scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":19,"audioFiles":[{"file":"398-017.mp3","bytes":462065,"durationSec":19.12,"bitrate":193332,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:45.438Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/398-017.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/398-017","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/398/conversation-398-017","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}