{"conversationCode":"496-001","tapeNumber":496,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-496-001","startDateTime":"1971-05-10T12:00:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-10T16:46:00.000Z","startDate":"10-May-1971","startTime":"8:00 AM","endDate":"10-May-1971","endTime":"12:46 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"[Unknown person(s)];","description":"On May 10, 1971, unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:00 am and 12:46 pm. 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It has been rereviewed and\nreleased 05/17/2019.]\n[Unintelligible]\n[496-001-w001]\n[Duration: 3m 39s]\n\n[This portion of the tape is mostly tape noise with some background conversation. ]\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nThe unknown persons left at an unknown time before 12:46 pm","filename":["496-001.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:01:35","tapeEnd":"00:07:35","participantsList":["[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"495-028","nextCode":"496-002","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":27.14,"text":"Oh, no."},{"start":28.48,"end":52.45,"text":"He asked me if I could take a life off."},{"start":52.47,"end":52.83,"text":"He said, well, no."},{"start":52.85,"end":52.91,"text":"No."},{"start":52.93,"end":53.53,"text":"Normally, there's no children."},{"start":53.55,"end":53.89,"text":"There's no, uh..."},{"start":53.91,"end":54.35,"text":"There's a lot of them."},{"start":54.37,"end":55.75,"text":"I just want to be able to sit down there and see if there's children."},{"start":55.77,"end":56.27,"text":"And he said, I'm looking."},{"start":56.29,"end":57.07,"text":"He asked me if I could take a life off."},{"start":57.09,"end":57.45,"text":"He said, well, no."},{"start":57.47,"end":58.25,"text":"He asked me if I could take a life off."},{"start":59.16,"end":75.32,"text":"I don't know what I'm doing."},{"start":75.34,"end":75.64,"text":"I'm all scared."},{"start":75.66,"end":75.92,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":75.94,"end":76.2,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":76.22,"end":76.48,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":76.5,"end":76.76,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":76.78,"end":77.04,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":77.06,"end":77.32,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":77.34,"end":77.6,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":77.62,"end":77.88,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":77.9,"end":78.17,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":107.68,"end":130.22,"text":"It's warm in here."},{"start":130.24,"end":130.52,"text":"Wait a minute."},{"start":130.54,"end":131.54,"text":"They were working on here at the emergency center."},{"start":131.56,"end":132.4,"text":"At that moment, there's no one's on guard."},{"start":132.42,"end":133.06,"text":"See, he doesn't get it normally."},{"start":133.08,"end":133.44,"text":"He doesn't get it."},{"start":133.46,"end":134,"text":"There's another one coming."},{"start":134.02,"end":134.76,"text":"I don't think we're going to make it."},{"start":139.87,"end":164.79,"text":"And how come those are dead?"},{"start":164.81,"end":165.07,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":165.09,"end":165.35,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":165.37,"end":165.63,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":191.04,"end":193.98,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"This recording captures an unidentified individual speaking in the Oval Office regarding unspecified personal distress, logistical confusion, and a vague concern about a lack of security at an emergency center. The dialogue is largely incoherent, focusing on an unidentified person's request and the speaker's emotional instability or fear. Due to the lack of context and unintelligible transcript content, no specific policy decisions or historical actions are discernible from this exchange.","topics":["Oval Office","Security","Emergency center","Communication difficulties"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:11:41.408Z"},"topicSlugs":["oval-office","security","emergency-center","communication-difficulties"],"audioDurationSec":219,"audioFiles":[{"file":"496-001.mp3","bytes":8769636,"durationSec":219.11,"bitrate":320186,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:48.990Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:50.866Z","transcriptGapSeconds":115,"transcriptGapShare":0.52,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/496-001.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/496-001","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/496/conversation-496-001","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). 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