{"conversationCode":"282-029","tapeNumber":282,"conversationNumber":29,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-282-029","startDateTime":"1971-10-20T21:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-20T21:33:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Oct-1971","startTime":"5:25 PM","endDate":"20-Oct-1971","endTime":"5:33 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On October 20, 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 5:25 pm and 5:33 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 282-029 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. 282-29\n\nDate: October 20, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:33 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with an unknown person.\n\n     Supreme Court nominees\n          -Timing of announcement\n          -American Bar Association's [ABA] rating of Mildred L. Lillie","filename":["282-029.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:21:14","tapeEnd":"02:22:55","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"282-028","nextCode":"282-030","transcript":[{"start":0.13,"end":5.59,"text":"Yeah, I took it off, and it's not another 12."},{"start":8.46,"end":9.66,"text":"Yeah, it's all enough."},{"start":10.44,"end":14.88,"text":"I gave him all of it."},{"start":14.9,"end":16.12,"text":"I gave him all of it."},{"start":16.14,"end":18.24,"text":"I gave him all of it."},{"start":18.32,"end":26.74,"text":"I gave him all of it."},{"start":29.85,"end":31.99,"text":"That bird belongs, you know."},{"start":34.52,"end":38.02,"text":"I think you don't know the goal of our item."},{"start":38.06,"end":44.96,"text":"That's the equipment, you know."},{"start":44.98,"end":49.38,"text":"I think we're in 730."},{"start":49.52,"end":50.18,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":51.45,"end":53.05,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":53.07,"end":53.39,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":53.45,"end":54.15,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":54.17,"end":55.57,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":55.59,"end":56.17,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":63.22,"end":63.82,"text":"Just get our storm."},{"start":63.94,"end":66.16,"text":"Our storm, yes, sir."},{"start":66.18,"end":66.3,"text":"Okay."},{"start":66.32,"end":70.72,"text":"Is it working?"},{"start":70.75,"end":71.5,"text":"But I don't know what it is."},{"start":74.09,"end":75.23,"text":"I don't know yet."},{"start":75.33,"end":86.65,"text":"We've got one down there, one left."},{"start":86.67,"end":87.01,"text":"Spare swing."},{"start":88.29,"end":92.82,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and an unknown associate met to discuss strategy regarding pending Supreme Court nominations. The conversation focused on the timing for announcing these judicial appointments and addressed the American Bar Association's evaluation of Mildred L. Lillie. No definitive consensus or final action plan was established during the brief exchange.","topics":["Supreme Court","Judicial nominations","Mildred L. Lillie","American Bar Association","Political strategy"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:18:32.424Z"},"topicSlugs":["supreme-court","judicial-nominations","mildred-l-lillie","american-bar-association","political-strategy"],"audioDurationSec":97,"audioFiles":[{"file":"282-029.mp3","bytes":3870109,"durationSec":96.61,"bitrate":320476,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.614Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/282-029.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/282-029","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/282/conversation-282-029","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}