{"conversationCode":"258-031","tapeNumber":258,"conversationNumber":31,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-258-031","startDateTime":"1971-06-17T22:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-18T01:29:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Jun-1971","startTime":"6:55 PM","endDate":"17-Jun-1971","endTime":"9:29 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On June 17, 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 6:55 pm and 9:29 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 258-031 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. 258-31\n\nDate: June 17, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 6:55 pm and 9:29 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nAn unknown person talked with the President\n\n     Request for meeting with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman [?]","filename":["258-031.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:47:05","tapeEnd":"00:47:12","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"258-030","nextCode":"258-032","transcript":[{"start":0.13,"end":0.25,"text":"Ja."},{"start":0.73,"end":0.99,"text":"Ja."},{"start":1.09,"end":1.27,"text":"Ja."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with an unidentified individual, during which the conversation centered on arranging a meeting with White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman. Due to the limited and unclear nature of the transcript, no substantive policy decisions or further details regarding the purpose of the engagement were captured. The brief interaction focused primarily on the logistical coordination of this requested access to Haldeman.","topics":["H. R. Haldeman","Scheduling","White House Staff","Access","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:11:05.510Z"},"topicSlugs":["h-r-haldeman","scheduling","white-house-staff","access","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"258-031.mp3","bytes":307007,"durationSec":7.54,"bitrate":325752,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.006Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/258-031.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/258-031","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/258/conversation-258-031","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}