{"conversationCode":"434-038","tapeNumber":434,"conversationNumber":38,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-434-038","startDateTime":"1973-05-09T22:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-05-09T22:35:00.000Z","startDate":"9-May-1973","startTime":"6:17 PM","endDate":"9-May-1973","endTime":"6:35 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On May 9, 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 6:17 pm and 6:35 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 434-038 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":"5.5","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part V","chronReleaseDate":"21-Aug-2013","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 434-38\n\nDate: May 9, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 6:17 pm and 6:35 pm\nLocation: Old Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with an unknown person.\n\f                                             -3-\n\n                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                             Conversation No. 434-38 (cont’d)\n\n       Location of something\n\nThe unknown person left at an unknown time before 6:35 pm.","filename":["434-038.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"434-037","nextCode":"435-001","transcript":[{"start":0.27,"end":0.88,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held an brief, unrecorded-substance meeting with unidentified individuals in his Old Executive Office Building suite. While the transcript remains undefined, the interaction occurred during a period of intense scrutiny regarding the Watergate scandal. No policy decisions or actionable directives can be discerned from the available documentation.","topics":["White House Tapes","Watergate","Presidential Scheduling","Executive Office Building"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T19:59:44.559Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-tapes","watergate","presidential-scheduling","executive-office-building"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"434-038.mp3","bytes":374784,"durationSec":11.6,"bitrate":258471,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:04.105Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:39.852Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/434-038.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/434-038","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/434/conversation-434-038","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}