{"conversationCode":"920-012","tapeNumber":920,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-920-012","startDateTime":"1973-05-17T00:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-05-17T00:45:00.000Z","startDate":"16-May-1973","startTime":"8:40 PM","endDate":"16-May-1973","endTime":"8:45 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On May 16, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:40 pm and 8:45 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 920-012 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. 920-12\n\f                                               -17-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                             Conversation No. 920-13 (cont’d)\n\nDate: May 16, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 8:40 pm and 8:45 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with an unknown person.\n\n       Instruction [?]\n               -Telephone call [?]","filename":["920-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"920-011","nextCode":"920-013","transcript":[{"start":3.28,"end":4.91,"text":"Thank you, thanks."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, undocumented meeting or telephone call with an unidentified individual late in the evening. Given the lack of surviving transcript content and the extremely short duration of the recording, the specific subject matter remains unknown. No policy decisions, actionable items, or substantive developments can be verified from this interaction.","topics":["Presidential communication","Oval Office","Unidentified participants","Historical ambiguity"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-09T00:15:42.124Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-communication","oval-office","unidentified-participants","historical-ambiguity"],"audioDurationSec":16,"audioFiles":[{"file":"920-012.mp3","bytes":520192,"durationSec":16.13,"bitrate":257946,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:06.648Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:45:03.166Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/920-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/920-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/920/conversation-920-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}