{"conversationCode":"639-010","tapeNumber":639,"conversationNumber":10,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-639-010","startDateTime":"1971-12-18T18:34:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-18T18:36:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Dec-1971","startTime":"1:34 PM","endDate":"18-Dec-1971","endTime":"1:36 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On December 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 1:34 pm and 1:36 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 639-010 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. 639-010\n\nDate: December 18, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:34 pm and 1:36 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with an unknown person.\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and\nreleased 06/14/2019.]\n[Unintelligible]\n[639-010-w001]\n[Duration: 4s]\n\n     Request\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nThe unknown person left at an unknown time before 1:36 pm.","filename":["639-010.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:50:29","tapeEnd":"00:52:43","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"639-009","nextCode":"639-011","transcript":[{"start":1.09,"end":3.7,"text":"Get out of the way, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, two-minute meeting in the Oval Office with an unidentified individual. The interaction was limited to a single administrative exchange regarding the movement of people within the room. No substantive policy discussions or significant decisions were recorded during this brief encounter.","topics":["Oval Office","Presidential Protocol","White House Staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T01:36:03.034Z"},"topicSlugs":["oval-office","presidential-protocol","white-house-staff"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"639-010.mp3","bytes":172032,"durationSec":4.18,"bitrate":329562,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:54.662Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:44:11.550Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/639-010.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/639-010","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/639/conversation-639-010","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}