{"conversationCode":"494-001","tapeNumber":494,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-494-001","startDateTime":"1971-05-08T13:16:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-08T14:05:00.000Z","startDate":"8-May-1971","startTime":"9:16 AM","endDate":"8-May-1971","endTime":"10:05 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On May 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 9:16 am and 10:05 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 494-001 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 494-1\n\nDate: May 8, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:16 am and 10:05 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Stephen B. Bull.\n\n     Harry S. Truman's birthday\n          -A telegram from President\n\nBull left at an unknown time before 10:05 am.","filename":["494a.mp3","494b.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:04:42","tapeEnd":"00:07:16","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"493-021","nextCode":"494-002","tapeTranscriptFile":"494a.mp3,494b.mp3","transcript":[{"start":270.39,"end":273.65,"text":"Just set it on fire."},{"start":275.44,"end":277.54,"text":"Just set it on fire?"},{"start":277.84,"end":278.06,"text":"Yeah."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":241.75,"end":347.75,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"medium","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his aide Stephen B. Bull to discuss the drafting of a birthday telegram for former President Harry S. Truman. During the exchange, Nixon dismissively instructed Bull to discard or destroy a specific draft of the message. This brief interaction highlights the President's personal involvement in routine executive correspondence and his decisive, if curt, approach to administrative tasks.","topics":["Harry S. Truman","Presidential correspondence","White House administration","Stephen B. Bull"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:08:20.656Z"},"topicSlugs":["harry-s-truman","presidential-correspondence","white-house-administration","stephen-b-bull"],"audioDurationSec":154,"audioFiles":[{"file":"494a.mp3","bytes":175806170,"durationSec":7325.19,"bitrate":192001,"missing":false},{"file":"494b.mp3","bytes":112048377,"durationSec":4668.63,"bitrate":192002,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:48.990Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/494a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/494b.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/494-001","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/494/conversation-494-001","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}