{"conversationCode":"540-012","tapeNumber":540,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-540-012","startDateTime":"1971-07-20T17:29:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-20T17:31:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Jul-1971","startTime":"1:29 PM","endDate":"20-Jul-1971","endTime":"1:31 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"United States Secret Service agents;","description":"On July 20, 1971, United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:29 pm and 1:31 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 540-012 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. 540-12\n\nDate: July 20, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:29 pm and 1:31 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nUnknown men (Secret Service) entered.\n\n     [General conversation]\n\n     The President\n          -Schedule\n          -Location\n     [Pause]\n\n     [Unintelligible]\n\nThis recording was cut off at an unknown time before 1:31 pm.","filename":["540-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:28:33","tapeEnd":"03:30:06","participantsList":["United States Secret Service agents"],"prevCode":"540-011","nextCode":"540-013","transcript":[{"start":0.35,"end":26.41,"text":"What's going on?"},{"start":26.43,"end":26.7,"text":"This is Jeff."},{"start":26.71,"end":26.82,"text":"Jeff."},{"start":29.5,"end":44.55,"text":"I don't think these guys are going to temporary."},{"start":44.57,"end":49.08,"text":"Is there anything I can tell on you?"},{"start":49.09,"end":49.52,"text":"Right."},{"start":49.76,"end":49.98,"text":"Yeah, uh..."},{"start":50,"end":52.92,"text":"I'm going to see what's going on."},{"start":52.94,"end":54.04,"text":"I'll be next to you and then I'll be on the other team."},{"start":54.06,"end":54.5,"text":"You got nothing on me?"},{"start":54.52,"end":54.78,"text":"I'll do that."},{"start":54.8,"end":55.62,"text":"Yeah, I'll go with you and I'll show you."},{"start":55.64,"end":56.24,"text":"I'll go with that now, please."},{"start":56.26,"end":56.6,"text":"I'll go with you."},{"start":56.62,"end":56.96,"text":"I'll go with you."},{"start":56.98,"end":57.44,"text":"Yeah, I'll go with you."},{"start":82.75,"end":83.33,"text":"Yeah."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Secret Service agents met with President Nixon in the Oval Office to coordinate logistics and provide a brief status update on the President's schedule and location. The discussion remained brief and primarily functional, concerning the movement of the President and personnel positioning. The recording concludes abruptly while agents are organizing their next steps regarding security protocols.","topics":["Secret Service","Presidential schedule","White House logistics","Security detail"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T23:23:19.327Z"},"topicSlugs":["secret-service","presidential-schedule","white-house-logistics","security-detail"],"audioDurationSec":92,"audioFiles":[{"file":"540-012.mp3","bytes":3699775,"durationSec":92.36,"bitrate":320470,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:51.010Z","transcriptGapSeconds":41,"transcriptGapShare":0.45,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/540-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/540-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/540/conversation-540-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}