{"conversationCode":"249-027","tapeNumber":249,"conversationNumber":27,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-249-027","startDateTime":"1971-04-15T23:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-15T23:21:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Apr-1971","startTime":"6:20 PM","endDate":"15-Apr-1971","endTime":"6:21 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 6:20 pm and 6:21 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 249-027 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 249-27\n\nDate: April 15, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 6:20 pm and 6:21 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator\n\n[See Conversation No. 42-51]","filename":["249-027.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:33:50","tapeEnd":"03:33:53","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"249-026","nextCode":"249-028","transcript":[{"start":0.7,"end":2.43,"text":"What is it?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon interacts with a White House operator to initiate a telephone connection. The brief exchange serves as a procedural prelude to a subsequent communication, identified as a follow-up to a related conversation. No substantive policy or political discussions occur during this short administrative interaction.","topics":["White House operations","telecommunications","administrative procedure"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T11:40:30.587Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","telecommunications","administrative-procedure"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"249-027.mp3","bytes":118797,"durationSec":2.83,"bitrate":336355,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.695Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/249-027.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/249-027","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/249/conversation-249-027","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}