{"conversationCode":"405-003","tapeNumber":405,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-405-003","startDateTime":"1973-01-25T12:54:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-25T13:38:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Jan-1973","startTime":"7:54 AM","endDate":"25-Jan-1973","endTime":"8:38 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On January 25, 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 7:54 am and 8:38 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 405-003 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. 405-3\n\nDate: January 25, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 7:54 am and 8:38 am\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with an unknown person.\n\n      Deliveries\n           -Tape\n                   Rose Mary Woods\n\f                                             -3-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                             Conversation No. 405-3 (cont’d)\n\nThe unknown person left at an unknown time before 8:38 am.","filename":["405-003.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"405-002","nextCode":"405-004","transcript":[{"start":0.28,"end":22.95,"text":"This is the source of the will of the sea."},{"start":22.97,"end":24.18,"text":"This is the source of the strength and the power of the sea."},{"start":24.2,"end":25.4,"text":"This is the source of the strength and the power of the sea."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, early-morning meeting with an unidentified individual in the Old Executive Office Building. The conversation is largely unintelligible, containing cryptic references to the \"strength and power of the sea,\" and yields no clear substantive policy discussion or actionable directives. Consequently, the meeting remains a fragment of the taping system with no discernable historical or political outcome.","topics":["Presidential meetings","White House Tapes","Nixon administration","unidentified participants"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:25:53.366Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-meetings","white-house-tapes","nixon-administration","unidentified-participants"],"audioDurationSec":34,"audioFiles":[{"file":"405-003.mp3","bytes":812520,"durationSec":33.71,"bitrate":192844,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:45.437Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:34.637Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/405-003.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/405-003","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/405/conversation-405-003","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}