{"conversationCode":"491-024","tapeNumber":491,"conversationNumber":24,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-491-024","startDateTime":"1971-05-05T15:27:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-05T15:31:00.000Z","startDate":"5-May-1971","startTime":"11:27 AM","endDate":"5-May-1971","endTime":"11:31 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"United States Secret Service agents;","description":"On May 5, 1971, United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:27 am and 11:31 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 491-024 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. 491-24\n\nDate: May 5, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:27 am and 11:31 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nUnknown people (Secret Service agents) entered.\n\n     President's location\n\nThe unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:31 am.","filename":["491-024.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:07:32","tapeEnd":"04:08:40","participantsList":["United States Secret Service agents"],"prevCode":"491-023","nextCode":"491-025","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":22.6,"text":"All right."},{"start":37.61,"end":41.65,"text":"Craig, just follow what he says, okay?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Secret Service agents to provide specific, though unidentified, instructions regarding the handling of a particular individual or situation. The brief exchange focused on ensuring the agents deferred to the directives of the unnamed person being referenced. This interaction underscores the President's direct involvement in personal security or logistics management during a period of heightened activity.","topics":["Secret Service","Presidential security","Logistics","Directives"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:04:37.230Z"},"topicSlugs":["secret-service","presidential-security","logistics","directives"],"audioDurationSec":43,"audioFiles":[{"file":"491-024.mp3","bytes":1723873,"durationSec":42.97,"bitrate":320973,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:48.989Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/491-024.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/491-024","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/491/conversation-491-024","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}