{"conversationCode":"491-018","tapeNumber":491,"conversationNumber":18,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-491-018","startDateTime":"1971-05-05T14:15:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-05T14:27:00.000Z","startDate":"5-May-1971","startTime":"10:15 AM","endDate":"5-May-1971","endTime":"10:27 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On May 5, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:15 am and 10:27 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 491-018 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. 491-18\n\nDate: May 5, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 10:15 am and 10:27 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with an unknown woman.\n\n     President's schedule\n           -Meeting with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.\n\nThe unknown woman left.","filename":["491-018.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:12:22","tapeEnd":"03:12:41","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"491-017","nextCode":"491-019","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":3.12,"text":"Do that, mister."},{"start":3.14,"end":3.66,"text":"Take him in."},{"start":3.68,"end":4.89,"text":"Yeah, I'll take him."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met briefly with an unidentified woman in the Oval Office to coordinate his immediate schedule. Following their discussion, he arranged for Alexander M. Haig, Jr. to be brought in for a meeting. This exchange served primarily as a logistical transition to facilitate the President's subsequent appointment with Haig.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","Alexander M. Haig Jr.","Oval Office protocol","White House logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:04:03.880Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","alexander-m-haig-jr","oval-office-protocol","white-house-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":6,"audioFiles":[{"file":"491-018.mp3","bytes":225489,"durationSec":5.5,"bitrate":328223,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:48.990Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/491-018.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/491-018","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/491/conversation-491-018","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}