{"conversationCode":"050-004","tapeNumber":50,"conversationNumber":4,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-050-004","startDateTime":"1971-03-09T14:43:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-03-09T20:06:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Mar-1971","startTime":"9:43 AM","endDate":"9-Mar-1971","endTime":"3:06 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"White House tour group;","description":"On March 9, 1971, a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House at an unknown time between 9:43 am and 3:06 pm. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 050-004 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"CAB","recordingDevice":"Cabinet Room","latitudeEstimated":38.8975,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":"Cabinet","chronRelease":"Cabinet Room Release","chronReleaseDate":"16-Oct-1997","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 50-4\n\nDate: Unknown between March 9 and March 16, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:43 am, March 9 and 3:06 pm, March 16, 1971\nLocation: Cabinet Room\n\nUnknown people [a tour group] met\n\n******************************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal Returnable]\n[Duration: 2m 31s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n******************************************************************************\n\nThe unknown people [tour group] left at an unknown time before 3:06 pm, March 16, 1971","filename":["050-004.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["White House tour group"],"prevCode":"050-002","nextCode":"050-005","tapeTranscriptFile":"050a.mp3,050b.mp3,050c.mp3","transcriptBoundary":{"start":0,"end":17375.32301,"startMethod":"full_tape","endMethod":"full_tape"},"transcriptSource":"audio-llm","aiSummary":{"text":"A White House tour group visited the Cabinet Room, during which an unidentified guide explained the room's seating arrangements, the history of the Cabinet table, and pointed out portraits, including one of Eisenhower. The conversation included general observations and questions from the tour participants about the room's features and occupants.","topics":["White House tour","Cabinet Room","Cabinet table","Seating arrangements","Portraits","Eisenhower"],"generatedAt":"2026-10-28T16:59:57.661Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-tours","cabinet-room","cabinet-table","seating-arrangements","portraits","eisenhower"],"audioDurationSec":152,"audioFiles":[{"file":"050-004.mp3","bytes":1826001,"durationSec":151.85,"bitrate":96200,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-10-28T16:46:57.336Z","audioSource":"National Archives Catalog (open data, RN-WHT)","audioSourceUrls":["https://catalog.archives.gov/medialz/presidential-libraries/nixon/rn-wht/12006803/6051347/37-wht-conversation-050-004-pa.mp3"],"catalogNaId":417174095,"originalFilename":["050a.mp3","050b.mp3","050c.mp3"],"transcript":[{"start":0,"end":4,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"[unintelligible]"},{"start":4,"end":6,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Sure."},{"start":6,"end":10,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"No [unintelligible] picture."},{"start":10,"end":18,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"[laughter] [unintelligible] you can say they've done that. Come on [unintelligible]."},{"start":18,"end":20,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"The president. [laughter]"},{"start":20,"end":26,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"You're the first lady president [unintelligible]. Congratulations. Greatest achievement."},{"start":26,"end":31,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"She changed places with everybody [laughter] [unintelligible]."},{"start":31,"end":37,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"[laughter]"},{"start":37,"end":43,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"The vice president sits right across?"},{"start":43,"end":52,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"That's right. The seating goes across, and then, working out from the president and vice president by the seniority of the department. The oldest department the closest."},{"start":52,"end":53,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Right."},{"start":53,"end":55,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Is this the gift of the [unintelligible]?"},{"start":55,"end":72,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"That's right. There has been a table in here. It was given during the Roosevelt administration, Franklin Roosevelt, and last year, the president had this installed. It's specially made. And it's his personal gift to the White House [unintelligible]."},{"start":72,"end":73,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Beautiful."},{"start":73,"end":76,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Mommy. Look at the vases."},{"start":76,"end":84,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"And when- when one of these um Eisenhower I think that's Eisenhower. Look at this picture of Eisenhower."},{"start":84,"end":87,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Eisenhower. What? Look at this Eisenhower."},{"start":87,"end":94,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Fresh as brand-new. So there are no 1971s."},{"start":94,"end":96,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Well, that would be Morton? Yeah."},{"start":96,"end":99,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Well, that isn't supposed to go by the seniority."},{"start":99,"end":104,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Oh, John Connally. Yeah. Now here's a-"},{"start":104,"end":115,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Well, because he's a brand new uh You see, the date is the date the the man taking over the job."},{"start":115,"end":119,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Dad. Hey, dad, look at the vases."},{"start":119,"end":126,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"All right. Thank you very much, young lady. I appreciate that."},{"start":126,"end":128,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"We're moving on, then."},{"start":128,"end":133,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Right. Yeah, we'll just take a peek in the president's office, and we'll see [unintelligible]."},{"start":133,"end":135,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"You could spend a whole day in this room, wouldn't you?"}],"transcriptCreatedAt":"2026-10-28T12:52:30.934Z","transcriptModel":"google/gemini-3.8-flash","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/050-004.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/050-004","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/050/conversation-050-004","catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417174095","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}