{"conversationCode":"250-028","tapeNumber":250,"conversationNumber":28,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-250-028","startDateTime":"1971-04-16T22:34:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-17T00:04:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Apr-1971","startTime":"5:34 PM","endDate":"16-Apr-1971","endTime":"7:04 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On April 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:34 pm and 7:04 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 250-028 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. 250-28\n\nDate: April 16, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:34 pm and 7:04 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with an unknown person\n\n     Steel workers\n           -Figures\n                -1960 compared with 1971","filename":["250-028.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:57:52","tapeEnd":"03:58:54","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"250-027","nextCode":"250-029","transcript":[{"start":0.17,"end":4.3,"text":"The number of them, there were 10 of them."},{"start":4.44,"end":6.76,"text":"In 1960, no matter where they are today,"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with an associate regarding labor statistics to analyze the status of the steel industry workforce. The discussion focused on comparing employment figures from 1960 against 1971 to evaluate long-term trends. This data review served to inform the administration's understanding of shifts within the industrial sector.","topics":["Steel industry","Labor statistics","Employment trends","Economic policy","Industrial workforce"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T11:43:17.391Z"},"topicSlugs":["steel-industry","labor-statistics","employment-trends","economic-policy","industrial-workforce"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"250-028.mp3","bytes":292234,"durationSec":7.18,"bitrate":325742,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.696Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/250-028.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/250-028","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/250/conversation-250-028","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}