{"conversationCode":"898-020","tapeNumber":898,"conversationNumber":20,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-898-020","startDateTime":"1973-04-17T19:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-04-17T19:46:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Apr-1973","startTime":"2:40 PM","endDate":"17-Apr-1973","endTime":"2:46 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On April 17, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:40 pm and 2:46 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 898-020 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":"5.5","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part V","chronReleaseDate":"21-Aug-2013","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 898-20\n\nDate: April 17, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 2:40 pm and 2:46 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with an unknown man.\n\n[A transcript of the following portion of this conversation was also prepared Richard Nixon’s\nSpecial White House Counsel for Watergate Matters and submitted to the Committee on the\nJudiciary of the House of Representatives. This transcript can be found in Submission of\nRecorded Presidential Conversations (SRPC), page 1060 (1). Please refer to the logging below.]\n\n       President’s schedule\n              -Meeting with Henry E. Petersen\n\nThe unknown man left at an unknown time before 2:46 pm.","filename":["898-020.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"898-019","nextCode":"898-021","transcript":[{"start":0.45,"end":0.85,"text":"Peterson."},{"start":1.49,"end":1.77,"text":"Right."},{"start":1.79,"end":3.4,"text":"All right, come in."},{"start":4.14,"end":4.64,"text":"And wait."},{"start":5,"end":5.34,"text":"John."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen to discuss ongoing developments regarding the Watergate investigation. The brief interaction served as a logistical coordination point for the high-level legal discussions taking place during this period of the scandal. No substantive policy or legal decisions are preserved in the available audio for this specific meeting fragment.","topics":["Watergate","Henry Petersen","Legal Investigation","White House Meetings"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-08T23:32:24.858Z"},"topicSlugs":["watergate","henry-petersen","legal-investigation","white-house-meetings"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"898-020.mp3","bytes":348160,"durationSec":10.77,"bitrate":258534,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:06.081Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/898-020.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/898-020","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/898/conversation-898-020","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}