{"conversationCode":"404-008","tapeNumber":404,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-404-008","startDateTime":"1973-01-23T16:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-23T17:08:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Jan-1973","startTime":"11:55 AM","endDate":"23-Jan-1973","endTime":"12:08 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On January 23, 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 11:55 am and 12:08 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 404-008 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. 404-8\n\nDate: January 23, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 11:55 am and 12:08 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with an unknown person.\n\n       Verification\n             -Unknown person\n                   -Conversation with President","filename":["404-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"404-007","nextCode":"404-009","transcript":[{"start":0.37,"end":18.55,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, undocumented discussion with an unidentified individual in his Old Executive Office Building workspace. The lack of available transcript or descriptive records renders the specific content and purpose of this meeting unknown. Consequently, no policy decisions or action items can be attributed to this brief exchange.","topics":["White House administration","Executive communication","Presidential records","Unidentified meeting"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:23:50.592Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-administration","executive-communication","presidential-records","unidentified-meeting"],"audioDurationSec":23,"audioFiles":[{"file":"404-008.mp3","bytes":564884,"durationSec":23.39,"bitrate":193232,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:45.438Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/404-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/404-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/404/conversation-404-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}