{"conversationCode":"490-008","tapeNumber":490,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-490-008","startDateTime":"1971-04-29T17:17:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-04T11:39:00.000Z","startDate":"29-Apr-1971","startTime":"1:17 PM","endDate":"4-May-1971","endTime":"7:39 AM","dateCertainty":"estimated","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"United States Secret Service agents;","description":"United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 1:17 pm on April 29, 1971 and 7:39 am on May 4, 1971. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 490-008 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. 490-8\n\nDate: Unknown between April 29 and May 4, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:17 pm, April 29 and 7:39 am, May 4, 1971\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nUnknown people (Secret Service agents) entered.\n\n     Call to unknown person\n\n     President's location\n           -Executive Office Building [EOB]\n\nThe conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 7:39 am, May 4, 1971.","filename":["490-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:00:50","tapeEnd":"01:07:08","participantsList":["United States Secret Service agents"],"prevCode":"490-007","nextCode":"490-009","transcript":[{"start":6.48,"end":17.23,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":17.51,"end":25.67,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":52.67,"end":54.82,"text":"Hey, when you finish, you're gonna get that door back."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Secret Service agents entered the Oval Office to coordinate security logistics and internal access protocols. The discussion focused primarily on managing door security and the President's transit between the Oval Office and the Executive Office Building. The exchange ended abruptly before further operational directives were issued.","topics":["Secret Service","White House security","Executive Office Building","operational logistics","Oval Office access"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:00:53.286Z"},"topicSlugs":["secret-service","white-house-security","executive-office-building","operational-logistics","oval-office-access"],"audioDurationSec":88,"audioFiles":[{"file":"490-008.mp3","bytes":3527367,"durationSec":88.04,"bitrate":320530,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:48.989Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/490-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/490-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/490/conversation-490-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}