{"conversationCode":"278-044","tapeNumber":278,"conversationNumber":44,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-278-044","startDateTime":"1971-09-16T13:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-16T14:33:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Sep-1971","startTime":"9:20 AM","endDate":"16-Sep-1971","endTime":"10:33 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On September 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 9:20 am and 10:33 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 278-044 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 278-44\n\nDate: September 16, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:20 am and 10:33 am\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with an unknown person.\n\n     President’s schedule\n\nThe unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:33 am.","filename":["278-044.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:58:34","tapeEnd":"01:59:13","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"278-043","nextCode":"278-045","transcript":[{"start":0.27,"end":3.49,"text":"All right."},{"start":3.77,"end":3.97,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with an unidentified individual in the Old Executive Office Building to review his upcoming schedule. Due to the lack of audio content in the recording, no specific policy discussions or executive decisions were captured. The brief interaction concluded when the participant departed the office.","topics":["Presidential schedule","Executive office operations","White House administration"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:58:56.975Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-schedule","executive-office-operations","white-house-administration"],"audioDurationSec":4,"audioFiles":[{"file":"278-044.mp3","bytes":177424,"durationSec":4.29,"bitrate":330612,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.329Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/278-044.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/278-044","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/278/conversation-278-044","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}