{"conversationCode":"500-012","tapeNumber":500,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-500-012","startDateTime":"1971-05-18T15:03:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-18T15:06:00.000Z","startDate":"18-May-1971","startTime":"11:03 AM","endDate":"18-May-1971","endTime":"11:06 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On May 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 11:03 am and 11:06 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 500-012 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. 500-12\n\nDate: May 18, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 11:03 am and 11:06 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Stephen B. Bull.\n     President's schedule\n           -Henry A. Kissinger\n\nBull left at an unknown time before 11:06 am.","filename":["500-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:01:50","tapeEnd":"01:03:16","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"500-011","nextCode":"500-013","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.91,"text":"Did you get this?"},{"start":1.93,"end":2.11,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his aide, Stephen B. Bull, to conduct a brief administrative review of his daily schedule. The primary focus of the discussion was coordinating the President’s upcoming meeting with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. No other substantive policy matters or major decisions were recorded during this short exchange.","topics":["Presidential schedule","Henry Kissinger","White House administration","Executive time management"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:19:21.098Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-schedule","henry-kissinger","white-house-administration","executive-time-management"],"audioDurationSec":2,"audioFiles":[{"file":"500-012.mp3","bytes":103236,"durationSec":2.44,"bitrate":338995,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:49.683Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/500-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/500-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/500/conversation-500-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}