{"conversationCode":"278-054","tapeNumber":278,"conversationNumber":54,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-278-054","startDateTime":"1971-09-16T15:15:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-16T15:48:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Sep-1971","startTime":"11:15 AM","endDate":"16-Sep-1971","endTime":"11:48 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 11:15 am and 11:48 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 278-054 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. 278-54\n\nDate: September 16, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:15 am and 11:48 am\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with an unknown woman.\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 04/03/2019.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[278-054-w001]\n[Duration: 8s]\n\n       Instructions\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nThe unknown woman left at an unknown time before 11:48 am.","filename":["278-054.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:50:07","tapeEnd":"02:50:35","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"278-053","nextCode":"278-055","transcript":[{"start":0.13,"end":0.76,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, private meeting with an unidentified woman in his Old Executive Office Building workspace. The interaction lasted only eight seconds before the guest departed. Due to the lack of recorded substance or meaningful dialogue, the specific purpose and topics of the encounter remain historically undocumented.","topics":["Presidential meetings","White House operations","Unidentified visitors"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:59:53.504Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-meetings","white-house-operations","unidentified-visitors"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"278-054.mp3","bytes":361326,"durationSec":8.9,"bitrate":324843,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.329Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/278-054.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/278-054","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/278/conversation-278-054","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}