{"conversationCode":"416-042","tapeNumber":416,"conversationNumber":42,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-416-042","startDateTime":"1973-03-17T16:15:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-17T16:25:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Mar-1973","startTime":"11:15 AM","endDate":"17-Mar-1973","endTime":"11:25 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On March 17, 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 11:15 am and 11:25 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 416-042 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":"5.4","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part IV","chronReleaseDate":"8-Dec-2010","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 416-42\n\nDate: March 17, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:25 am\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with an unknown man.\n\n       President’s schedule\n\f                                             -47-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n            -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.\n\nThe unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:25 am.","filename":["416-042.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"416-041","nextCode":"416-043","transcript":[{"start":0.35,"end":3.93,"text":"Tu vas t'arrêter ?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief ten-minute meeting with an unidentified individual in the Old Executive Office Building. While the official record notes the presence of Alexander M. Haig, Jr. in the surrounding context, the specific substance of the exchange remains unrecorded or obscured. Consequently, no meaningful policy decisions or substantive developments can be attributed to this brief interaction.","topics":["Presidential schedule","White House operations","Alexander Haig","Executive Office Building"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T18:58:12.040Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-schedule","white-house-operations","alexander-haig","executive-office-building"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"416-042.mp3","bytes":53248,"durationSec":9.13,"bitrate":46640,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:46.738Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:36.563Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/416-042.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/416-042","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/416/conversation-416-042","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}