{"conversationCode":"943-003","tapeNumber":943,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-943-003","startDateTime":"1973-06-18T14:27:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-06-18T14:35:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Jun-1973","startTime":"10:27 AM","endDate":"18-Jun-1973","endTime":"10:35 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On June 18, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 10:27 am and 10:35 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 943-003 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. 943-3\n\nDate: June 18, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 10:27 am and 10:35 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with an unknown man.\n\n     Leonid I. Brezhnev visit\n          -Brezhnev’s schedule\n\f                                                -15-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                              Conversation No. 943-3 (cont’d)\n\n           -Television [TV] coverage\n                 -Location of media\n\nThe unknown man left at an unknown time before 10:35 am.","filename":["943-003.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"943-002","nextCode":"943-004","transcript":[{"start":4.38,"end":5.14,"text":"You're on TV."},{"start":5.16,"end":6.11,"text":"A senator will leave the office."},{"start":6.17,"end":7.75,"text":"You can call the police."},{"start":7.89,"end":11.07,"text":"The pool pickup for your speech is directly head on."},{"start":12.2,"end":12.66,"text":"Dead center."},{"start":12.68,"end":13.28,"text":"I'm a press secretary."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with an unidentified individual, likely a press aide or logistics coordinator, to finalize arrangements for the upcoming visit of Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. The discussion focused on managing the media presence and optimizing television coverage for the President’s public remarks. They specifically addressed the strategic positioning of the press pool to ensure favorable visual documentation of the proceedings.","topics":["Leonid Brezhnev","White House logistics","Media relations","Television coverage","Press pool","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-09T00:41:11.347Z"},"topicSlugs":["leonid-brezhnev","white-house-logistics","media-relations","television-coverage","press-pool","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":23,"audioFiles":[{"file":"943-003.mp3","bytes":747520,"durationSec":23.24,"bitrate":257321,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:06.648Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:45:06.846Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/943-003.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/943-003","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/943/conversation-943-003","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}