{"conversationCode":"279-027","tapeNumber":279,"conversationNumber":27,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-279-027","startDateTime":"1971-09-22T20:54:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-22T21:17:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Sep-1971","startTime":"4:54 PM","endDate":"22-Sep-1971","endTime":"5:17 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On September 22, 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 4:54 pm and 5:17 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 279-027 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. 279-27\n\nDate: September 22, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:54 pm and 5:17 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with an unknown person.\n\n     Instruction\n\nThe unknown person left at an unknown time before 5:17 pm.","filename":["279-027.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:55:31","tapeEnd":"02:56:24","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"279-026","nextCode":"279-028","transcript":[{"start":0.17,"end":6.71,"text":"Hello there."},{"start":6.74,"end":7.58,"text":"How are you?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, informal meeting in his Old Executive Office Building suite with an unidentified individual. The participants engaged in brief social pleasantries before the visitor departed shortly thereafter. No substantive policy matters or administrative decisions were documented during this brief encounter.","topics":["Presidential meetings","White House operations","Informal communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:04:16.044Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-meetings","white-house-operations","informal-communications"],"audioDurationSec":8,"audioFiles":[{"file":"279-027.mp3","bytes":321636,"durationSec":7.91,"bitrate":325447,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.329Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:15.370Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/279-027.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/279-027","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/279/conversation-279-027","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}