{"conversationCode":"617-004","tapeNumber":617,"conversationNumber":4,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-617-004","startDateTime":"1971-11-12T21:02:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-12T21:29:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Nov-1971","startTime":"4:02 PM","endDate":"12-Nov-1971","endTime":"4:29 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"United States Secret Service agents;","description":"On November 12, 1971, United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:02 pm and 4:29 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 617-004 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 617-004\n\nDate: November 12, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:02 pm and 4:29 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nUnknown men [Secret Service agents] met.\n\n**************************************************************************\n\n[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and\nreleased 07/03/2019.]\n[Unintelligible]\n[617-004-w001]\n[Duration: 13s]\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n[This portion of the tape is mostly room noise with some muffled background conversation.]\n\n**************************************************************************\n\nThe conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 4:29 pm.","filename":["617-004.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:04:06","tapeEnd":"00:04:16","participantsList":["United States Secret Service agents"],"prevCode":"617-003","nextCode":"617-005","transcript":[{"start":9.18,"end":12.86,"text":"Thank you all for your time."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Secret Service agents gathered in the Oval Office to conduct a brief meeting with President Nixon. The discussion concluded abruptly, and the provided record contains no substantive dialogue due to the unintelligible nature of the audio. Consequently, no specific policy decisions or action items were captured during this short exchange.","topics":["Secret Service","Oval Office protocol","White House security","Presidential meetings"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T00:51:55.709Z"},"topicSlugs":["secret-service","oval-office-protocol","white-house-security","presidential-meetings"],"audioDurationSec":13,"audioFiles":[{"file":"617-004.mp3","bytes":540672,"durationSec":13.39,"bitrate":323127,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:51.997Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:44:08.175Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/617-004.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/617-004","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/617/conversation-617-004","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}