{"conversationCode":"292-004","tapeNumber":292,"conversationNumber":4,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-292-004","startDateTime":"1971-10-19T17:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-19T18:53:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Oct-1971","startTime":"1:45 PM","endDate":"19-Oct-1971","endTime":"2:53 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 19, 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 1:45 pm and 2:53 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 292-004 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. 292-4\n\nDate: October 19, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:45 pm and 2:53 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 11-136]\n\n     Request for a call to Lewis F. Powell, Jr.","filename":["292-004-splice.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:05:29","tapeEnd":"00:06:11","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"292-003","nextCode":"292-005","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing call to Lewis F. Powell, Jr. The purpose of this communication was to facilitate a direct conversation between the President and the future Supreme Court nominee. This interaction served as a logistical step in the administration's judicial appointment process.","topics":["Lewis F. Powell, Jr.","Supreme Court nomination","White House operations","Presidential appointments"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:40:54.637Z"},"topicSlugs":["lewis-f-powell-jr","supreme-court-nomination","white-house-operations","presidential-appointments"],"audioDurationSec":45,"audioFiles":[{"file":"292-004-splice.mp3","bytes":720187,"durationSec":44.98,"bitrate":128082,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T14:10:34.021Z","originalFilename":["292a.mp3","292b.mp3"],"spliceSource":{"spliceType":"bigtape","sourceFiles":["292a.mp3"],"cutStart":327.5,"cutEnd":372.5,"adjustedStart":327.5,"adjustedEnd":372.5,"boundaryMethod":"llm-alignment","confidence":"high","splicedAt":"2026-09-18T14:10:34.021Z"},"transcript":[{"start":340.81,"end":342.25,"text":"by Mr. Louis Powell."},{"start":342.75,"end":347.77,"text":"Attorney General has stopped him in New York a couple of nights today."},{"start":348.37,"end":350.33,"text":"Powell, Powell, P-O-W-E-L-L-O, he's in the war right now."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":329,"end":371,"startMethod":"llm-alignment","endMethod":"llm-alignment"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/292-004-splice.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/292-004","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/292/conversation-292-004","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}