{"conversationCode":"637-018","tapeNumber":637,"conversationNumber":18,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-637-018","startDateTime":"1971-12-10T16:14:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-10T17:04:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Dec-1971","startTime":"11:14 AM","endDate":"10-Dec-1971","endTime":"12:04 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"United States Secret Service agents;","description":"On December 10, 1971, United States Secret Service agents met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:14 am and 12:04 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 637-018 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. 637-18\n\nDate: December 12, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:14 am and 12:04 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nUnknown people [Secret Service agents] entered.\n\n     [Unintelligible]\n                                             20\n\n                          NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF\n\n                                     Tape Subject Log\n                                       (rev. 10/06)\n                                                                     Conv. No. 637-11 (cont.)\n\n\n\n     The President’s location\n          -West Wing\n\nAn unknown agent talked with an unknown person.\n\n[Conversation No. 637-18A]\n\n\n**************************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Agency Statute]\n[Duration: 6s ]\n\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n**************************************************************************\n\n\n[End of telephone conversation]\n\n     [Unintelligible]\n\n     The President’s location\n          -Residence\n\nThe unknown people [Secret Service agents] left at an unknown time before 12:04 pm","filename":["637-018.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:59:11","tapeEnd":"02:09:31","participantsList":["United States Secret Service agents"],"prevCode":"637-017","nextCode":"638-001","transcript":[{"start":4.37,"end":8.33,"text":"All right, just one."},{"start":8.37,"end":9.17,"text":"Check."},{"start":9.25,"end":9.85,"text":"Check."},{"start":10.15,"end":11.04,"text":"All right."},{"start":11.18,"end":13.52,"text":"All right."},{"start":53.8,"end":58.98,"text":"Okay."},{"start":59.24,"end":61.6,"text":"Okay."},{"start":61.68,"end":65.6,"text":"You got it."},{"start":76.33,"end":78.81,"text":"He is lost in a new city, where he will be buried."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Secret Service agents met with President Nixon in the Oval Office to conduct routine equipment checks of the taping system. The brief interaction focused on verifying the operational status of recording hardware, resulting in the successful confirmation of equipment functionality. No substantive policy or political discussions took place during this technical maintenance session.","topics":["Secret Service","Oval Office","White House Taping System","Technical Maintenance","Presidential Security"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T01:33:42.367Z"},"topicSlugs":["secret-service","oval-office","white-house-taping-system","technical-maintenance","presidential-security"],"audioDurationSec":80,"audioFiles":[{"file":"637-018.mp3","bytes":3195101,"durationSec":79.73,"bitrate":320588,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:54.362Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/637-018.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/637-018","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/637/conversation-637-018","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}