{"conversationCode":"253-019","tapeNumber":253,"conversationNumber":19,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-253-019","startDateTime":"1971-05-26T19:18:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-26T19:30:00.000Z","startDate":"26-May-1971","startTime":"3:18 PM","endDate":"26-May-1971","endTime":"3:30 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On May 26, 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 3:18 pm and 3:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 253-019 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. 253-19\n\nDate: May 26, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:18 pm and 3:30 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator\n\n[See Conversation No. 3-137]","filename":["253-019.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:05:19","tapeEnd":"01:06:00","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"253-018","nextCode":"253-020","transcript":[{"start":0.36,"end":0.63,"text":"Please."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with a White House operator to facilitate an outgoing telephone connection. This brief interaction served solely as an administrative coordination to establish communication with an unnamed third party. No substantive policy discussions or decisions occurred during this brief exchange.","topics":["White House communications","telecommunications","administrative coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T11:54:36.265Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-communications","telecommunications","administrative-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"253-019.mp3","bytes":133410,"durationSec":3.19,"bitrate":334777,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.695Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/253-019.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/253-019","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/253/conversation-253-019","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}