{"conversationCode":"806-016","tapeNumber":806,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-806-016","startDateTime":"1972-10-24T16:50:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-24T16:57:00.000Z","startDate":"24-Oct-1972","startTime":"12:50 PM","endDate":"24-Oct-1972","endTime":"12:57 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"United States Secret Service agents; [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On October 24, 1972, United States Secret Service agents and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:50 pm and 12:57 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 806-016 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 806-16\n\nDate: October 24, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:50 pm and 12:57 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nUnknown men [Secret Service agents] met.\n\n        The President's location\n            -Executive Office Building [EOB]\n\nAn unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:50 pm and\n12:57 pm.\n\n[Conversation No. 806-16A]\n\n        Officers accompanying the President\n\n[End of telephone conversation]\n\nAn unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:50 pm and\n12:57 pm.\n\n[Conversation No. 806-16B]\n\n        The President’s location\n            -EOB\n\n[End of telephone conversation]\n\n        The President’s location\n            -EOB\n\nAn unknown agent talked with an unknown person at an unknown time between 12:50 pm and\n12:57 pm.\n\n[Conversation No. 806-16C]\n\n        The President’s location\n            -EOB\n\n[End of telephone conversation]\n\n[The conversation was cut off at an unknown time before 12:57 p.m.]","filename":["806-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["United States Secret Service agents","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"806-015","nextCode":"806-017","transcript":[{"start":23.36,"end":24,"text":"I know he will be."},{"start":24.75,"end":37.23,"text":"I know he will be."},{"start":37.33,"end":51.13,"text":"I know he will be."},{"start":51.15,"end":52.25,"text":"I know he will be."},{"start":67.96,"end":68.9,"text":"Ok!"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"United States Secret Service agents engaged in a series of brief, fragmented communications with unknown parties while the President was located in the Executive Office Building. The exchanges consist of repetitive, indistinct remarks that appear to be logistical or procedural in nature. Due to the lack of substantive content and the abrupt conclusion of the recording, no meaningful decisions or developments were documented.","topics":["Secret Service","Logistics","White House Security","Executive Office Building","Communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-08T00:11:36.550Z"},"topicSlugs":["secret-service","logistics","white-house-security","executive-office-building","communications"],"audioDurationSec":87,"audioFiles":[{"file":"806-016.mp3","bytes":2090212,"durationSec":87.04,"bitrate":192115,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:58.478Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:44:36.759Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/806-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/806-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/806/conversation-806-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}