{"conversationCode":"933-010","tapeNumber":933,"conversationNumber":10,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-933-010","startDateTime":"1973-06-06T15:41:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-06-06T15:44:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Jun-1973","startTime":"11:41 AM","endDate":"6-Jun-1973","endTime":"11:44 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On June 6, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:41 am and 11:44 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 933-010 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. 933-10\n\nDate: June 6, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 11:41 am and 11:44 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with an unknown man.\n\n       Stephen B. Bull’s location\n              -Old Executive Office Building [EOB]\n\n       Unknown man’s forthcoming calls to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman\n            -Melvin R. Laird appointment\n            -Alexander M. Haig, Jr.’s retirement from the military\n                    -Laird’s experience\n            -Press coverage by wire services\n\nThe unknown man left at an unknown time before 11:44 am.","filename":["933-010.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"933-009","nextCode":"933-011","transcript":[{"start":0.32,"end":2.02,"text":"Easy across the street, I mean, anything I can do for you?"},{"start":2.04,"end":2.94,"text":"Yeah, you can do this."},{"start":5.36,"end":6.62,"text":"Yeah, I'll call up."},{"start":6.72,"end":10.94,"text":"I'll call up and call John Irving and talk to him."},{"start":11.1,"end":16.73,"text":"That this announcement about Laird and Haig, that Haig is retired from the Army."},{"start":16.89,"end":18.13,"text":"That's being announced."},{"start":18.43,"end":19.79,"text":"That's being announced."},{"start":22.01,"end":22.89,"text":"That's being announced."},{"start":24.11,"end":25.03,"text":"That's being announced."},{"start":25.09,"end":27.85,"text":"That's being announced."},{"start":31.81,"end":32.34,"text":"Bye."},{"start":32.44,"end":32.6,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with an unidentified individual to coordinate the timing and communication of personnel changes involving Melvin Laird and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. The discussion centered on ensuring the public announcement of Haig’s retirement from the military was handled properly. The parties agreed to contact staff members John Irving and others to manage the dissemination of this information through wire services.","topics":["Alexander M. Haig Jr.","Melvin R. Laird","Military retirement","Press relations","White House staffing"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-09T00:29:36.004Z"},"topicSlugs":["alexander-m-haig-jr","melvin-r-laird","military-retirement","press-relations","white-house-staffing"],"audioDurationSec":47,"audioFiles":[{"file":"933-010.mp3","bytes":1521664,"durationSec":47.44,"bitrate":256604,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:06.648Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/933-010.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/933-010","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/933/conversation-933-010","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}