{"conversationCode":"540-014","tapeNumber":540,"conversationNumber":14,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-540-014","startDateTime":"1971-07-20T12:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-20T14:23:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Jul-1971","startTime":"8:05 AM","endDate":"20-Jul-1971","endTime":"10:23 AM","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 8:05 am and 10:23 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 540-014 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. 540-14\n\nDate: July 20, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:05 am and 10:23 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nUnknown men (Secret Service agents) entered.\n\n******************************************************************************\n\n[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and\ncleared for release. The withdrawal is now categorized as a PRMPA Federal Statute (A) and\nwas reviewed under deed of gift 01/21/2020.]\n[Federal Statue]\n[540-014-w001]\n[Duration: 3m 24s]\n\nAn unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:05 am and\n10:23 am.\n\n[Conversation No. 540-14A]\n\n     General conversation\n\n     Executive Office Building [EOB] [?]\n\n     Door check [?]\n\n[End of telephone conversation]\n\nAn unknown man talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 8:05 am and\n10:23 am.\n\n[Conversation No. 540-14B]\n\n     Possible situation\n          -Basement\n          -[Unintelligible name]’s location [?]\n\n[End of telephone conversation]\n\n******************************************************************************\n\nThe recording was cut off at an unknown time before 10:23 am.","filename":["540-014.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:25:21","tapeEnd":"00:29:31","participantsList":["United States Secret Service agents"],"prevCode":"540-013","nextCode":"541-001","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":29.14,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":29.16,"end":29.26,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":35.69,"end":63.17,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":63.19,"end":63.29,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":63.31,"end":63.41,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":63.43,"end":63.53,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":63.55,"end":63.65,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":69.15,"end":98.48,"text":"Okay."},{"start":98.5,"end":98.6,"text":"Okay."},{"start":99.46,"end":128.67,"text":"I don't know if you can hear me."},{"start":131.84,"end":158.02,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":162.77,"end":191.36,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office to coordinate security logistics and site inspections. The discussion involved brief administrative updates regarding building access, specifically concerning the Executive Office Building and a potential situation located in the basement. These exchanges served to facilitate routine protective operations and internal security checks.","topics":["Secret Service","White House security","Executive Office Building","protective operations","logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T23:23:30.594Z"},"topicSlugs":["secret-service","white-house-security","executive-office-building","protective-operations","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":204,"audioFiles":[{"file":"540-014.mp3","bytes":8176118,"durationSec":204.26,"bitrate":320223,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:51.010Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:58.002Z","transcriptGapSeconds":170,"transcriptGapShare":0.83,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/540-014.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/540-014","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/540/conversation-540-014","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}