{"conversationCode":"630-009","tapeNumber":630,"conversationNumber":9,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-630-009","startDateTime":"1971-12-06T18:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-06T20:04:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Dec-1971","startTime":"1:11 PM","endDate":"6-Dec-1971","endTime":"3:04 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On December 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:11 pm and 3:04 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 630-009 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. 630-009\nDate: December 6, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:11 pm and 3:04 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\nThe President met with an unknown man.\nLunch break\nNational Broadcasting Company [NBC] film crew\nThe unknown man left at an unknown time before 3:04 pm.","filename":["630-009.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:14:41","tapeEnd":"01:16:16","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"630-008","nextCode":"630-010","transcript":[{"start":0.11,"end":2.13,"text":"All right, I've been coming up for a while."},{"start":2.17,"end":2.41,"text":"Good work."},{"start":2.53,"end":3.31,"text":"I'll finish it, sir."},{"start":3.33,"end":4.64,"text":"All right, go over and eat something."},{"start":4.66,"end":8.5,"text":"You're going to come to the right, or you're going to cover that."},{"start":8.54,"end":9.32,"text":"Nobody else will."},{"start":9.66,"end":12.18,"text":"We've got another crew over there."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with an unknown individual, likely a representative of an NBC film crew, to facilitate the production of televised footage within the Oval Office. The discussion focused on logistical coordination and the specific positioning of equipment to ensure the desired visual coverage. Nixon authorized the crew to take a lunch break as they finalized their setup for the recording session.","topics":["NBC","Media relations","Oval Office","Television production","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T01:22:07.710Z"},"topicSlugs":["nbc","media-relations","oval-office","television-production","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":42,"audioFiles":[{"file":"630-009.mp3","bytes":1695656,"durationSec":42.25,"bitrate":321082,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:54.361Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/630-009.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/630-009","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/630/conversation-630-009","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}