{"conversationCode":"402-003","tapeNumber":402,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-402-003","startDateTime":"1973-01-21T21:54:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-21T22:00:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Jan-1973","startTime":"4:54 PM","endDate":"21-Jan-1973","endTime":"5:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On January 21, 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 4:54 pm and 5:00 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 402-003 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. 402-3\n\nDate: January 21, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 4:54 pm and 5:00 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with an unknown man.\n\n       President's schedule [?]\n\nThe unknown man left at an unknown time before 5:00 pm.\n\f                                             -9-\n\n                    NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                              Conversation No. 402-17 (cont’d)","filename":["402-003.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"402-002","nextCode":"402-004","transcript":[{"start":0.15,"end":2.72,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, unscheduled meeting in the Old Executive Office Building with an unidentified individual to discuss matters pertaining to the President's schedule. The interaction concluded within six minutes, providing no further substantive details regarding policy or administration objectives. Due to the limited audio record and the anonymity of the participant, the specific purpose and outcome of the discussion remain undocumented.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","White House operations","Executive office meetings"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:18:21.822Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","white-house-operations","executive-office-meetings"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"402-003.mp3","bytes":190597,"durationSec":7.8,"bitrate":195484,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:45.437Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:34.125Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/402-003.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/402-003","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/402/conversation-402-003","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}