{"conversationCode":"300-018","tapeNumber":300,"conversationNumber":18,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-300-018","startDateTime":"1971-11-09T13:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-09T14:45:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Nov-1971","startTime":"8:45 AM","endDate":"9-Nov-1971","endTime":"9:45 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Buchanan, Shelley A. (Scarney);","description":"On November 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Shelley A. (Scarney) Buchanan met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 8:45 am and 9:45 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 300-018 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. 300-018\n\nDate: November 9, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:45 am and 9:45 am\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with Stephen B. Bull.\n\n     The President's schedule\n          -Henry A. Kissinger\n               -Trip\n\nBull left at an unknown time before 9:45 am.","filename":["300-018.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:35:12","tapeEnd":"00:35:41","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Buchanan, Shelley A. (Scarney)"],"prevCode":"300-017","nextCode":"300-019","transcript":[{"start":2.85,"end":7.16,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his aide, Stephen B. Bull, to discuss scheduling priorities for the executive office. The primary focus of the brief consultation was arranging upcoming meetings, specifically regarding Henry A. Kissinger’s travel itinerary. No major policy decisions were reached during this administrative briefing.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","Henry Kissinger","Stephen B. Bull","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:04:52.612Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","henry-kissinger","stephen-b-bull","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"300-018.mp3","bytes":290233,"durationSec":7.11,"bitrate":326478,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.956Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/300-018.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/300-018","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/300/conversation-300-018","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}