{"conversationCode":"917-024","tapeNumber":917,"conversationNumber":24,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-917-024","startDateTime":"1973-05-14T16:03:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-05-14T16:04:00.000Z","startDate":"14-May-1973","startTime":"12:03 PM","endDate":"14-May-1973","endTime":"12:04 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Higby, Lawrence M.;","description":"On May 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Lawrence M. Higby met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:03 pm to 12:04 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 917-024 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":"Abuse of Governmental Power Release","aogpSegment":"Segment 0","lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 917-024\n\nDate: May 14, 1973\nTime: 12:03 pm - 12:04 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with Lawrence M. Higby.\n\n[See Conversation No. 046-027]","filename":["917-024.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Higby, Lawrence M."],"prevCode":"917-023","nextCode":"917-025","transcript":[{"start":4.8,"end":5.36,"text":"Is there a report?"},{"start":9.03,"end":14.59,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":14.77,"end":15.03,"text":"All right."},{"start":15.11,"end":15.85,"text":"All right."},{"start":15.91,"end":16.19,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":17.11,"end":17.59,"text":"All right."},{"start":18.03,"end":20.45,"text":"Let me say, I checked Rose, and I'm using ."},{"start":20.55,"end":24.38,"text":"Which has nothing to do with this."},{"start":24.43,"end":32.86,"text":"It simply indicates that I express concern on why I couldn't go or somebody get out some of the activities of their demonstrations"},{"start":37.55,"end":38.01,"text":"Right."},{"start":38.47,"end":39.31,"text":"So, I don't know."},{"start":39.33,"end":40.01,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":40.07,"end":40.71,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":40.73,"end":44.13,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":44.87,"end":45.73,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":45.93,"end":47.63,"text":"I don't know."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with aide Lawrence M. Higby to briefly discuss the status of a requested report and the administrative handling of presidential correspondence. Nixon inquired about specific documentation regarding his expressed concerns over public demonstrations. The conversation concluded without a definitive resolution, reflecting the President's ongoing preoccupation with political optics during the Watergate era.","topics":["White House administration","Presidential correspondence","Public demonstrations","Executive oversight","Reporting procedures"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-09T00:05:47.914Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-administration","presidential-correspondence","public-demonstrations","executive-oversight","reporting-procedures"],"audioDurationSec":52,"audioFiles":[{"file":"917-024.mp3","bytes":2101248,"durationSec":52.4,"bitrate":320787,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:06.413Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:45:02.595Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/917-024.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/917-024","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/917/conversation-917-024","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}