{"conversationCode":"279-028","tapeNumber":279,"conversationNumber":28,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-279-028","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); White House operator;","description":"On September 22, 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 4:54 pm and 5:17 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 279-028 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. 279-28\n\nDate: September 22, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:54 pm and 5:17 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 9-121]","filename":["279-028.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:56:24","tapeEnd":"02:56:36","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"279-027","nextCode":"279-029","transcript":[{"start":1.51,"end":6.68,"text":"Nice shot, buddy."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, informal interaction with a White House operator. The exchange focused on social pleasantries rather than administrative or policy matters. No substantive government actions or policy decisions were initiated during this encounter.","topics":["White House operations","informal communication","Presidential staff relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:04:21.579Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-operations","informal-communication","presidential-staff-relations"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"279-028.mp3","bytes":378060,"durationSec":9.3,"bitrate":325151,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.329Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/279-028.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/279-028","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/279/conversation-279-028","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}