{"conversationCode":"489-024","tapeNumber":489,"conversationNumber":24,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-489-024","startDateTime":"1971-04-26T22:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-27T00:30:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Apr-1971","startTime":"6:45 PM","endDate":"26-Apr-1971","endTime":"8:30 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"United States Secret Service agents;","description":"On April 26, 1971, United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 6:45 pm and 8:30 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 489-024 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. 489-24\n\nDate: April 26, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 6:45 pm and 8:30 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nUnknown people (Secret Service agents) met.\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and\nreleased 05/21/2019.]\n[Unintelligible]\n[489-024-w001]\n[Duration: 2m 18s]\n\n[This portion of the tape is mostly tape noise and room noise with some muffled background\nconversation.]\n\n**********************************************************************","filename":["489-024.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:32:06","tapeEnd":"05:34:49","participantsList":["United States Secret Service agents"],"prevCode":"489-023","nextCode":"489-025","transcript":[{"start":20.65,"end":45.68,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":45.7,"end":45.78,"text":"Yes."},{"start":61.12,"end":89.98,"text":"You have a problem?"},{"start":90.48,"end":90.6,"text":"Watch."},{"start":104.61,"end":124.79,"text":"No, I just wanted to go out."},{"start":126.2,"end":130.88,"text":"You know what's coming?"},{"start":136.74,"end":138.56,"text":"I don't understand why that's over here."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Secret Service agents gathered in the Oval Office to discuss security concerns and logistical arrangements for movement in and around the executive workspace. The participants exchanged brief, vague remarks regarding potential situational challenges and the positioning of equipment. Due to the high level of background noise and unintelligible speech, the specific nature of these security directives remains unclear.","topics":["Secret Service","White House security","Oval Office","logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T21:59:05.950Z"},"topicSlugs":["secret-service","white-house-security","oval-office","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":139,"audioFiles":[{"file":"489-024.mp3","bytes":5546109,"durationSec":138.51,"bitrate":320322,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:48.989Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/489-024.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/489-024","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/489/conversation-489-024","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}