{"conversationCode":"478-012","tapeNumber":478,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-478-012","startDateTime":"1971-04-13T14:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-13T14:30:00.000Z","startDate":"13-Apr-1971","startTime":"9:17 AM","endDate":"13-Apr-1971","endTime":"9:30 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On April 13, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:17 am and 9:30 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 478-012 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 478-12\n\nDate: April 13, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:17 am and 9:30 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nAn unknown person talked with the President\n\n     President’s schedule","filename":["478-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:00:39","tapeEnd":"00:01:04","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"478-011","nextCode":"479-001","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":6.04,"text":"No!"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, unidentified discussion in the Oval Office with unknown participants. Due to the lack of audible content beyond a single emphatic negative response, the transcript offers no substantive information regarding policy, strategy, or administrative action. Consequently, the meeting's purpose and any potential decisions remain historically indeterminate.","topics":["Presidential communication","Oval Office","Administrative record","Unidentified meeting"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T21:42:06.191Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-communication","oval-office","administrative-record","unidentified-meeting"],"audioDurationSec":14,"audioFiles":[{"file":"478-012.mp3","bytes":336038,"durationSec":13.93,"bitrate":192935,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:48.989Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:47.690Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/478-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/478-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/478/conversation-478-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}