{"conversationCode":"500-020","tapeNumber":500,"conversationNumber":20,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-500-020","startDateTime":"1971-05-18T18:14:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-18T18:30:00.000Z","startDate":"18-May-1971","startTime":"2:14 PM","endDate":"18-May-1971","endTime":"2:30 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On May 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 2:14 pm and 2:30 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 500-020 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. 500-20\n\nDate: May 18, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 2:14 pm and 2:30 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with an unknown man and woman.\n\n     President’s schedule\n\nThe unknown man and woman left at an unknown time before 2:30 pm.","filename":["500-020.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:26:20","tapeEnd":"02:42:59","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"500-019","nextCode":"500-021","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":6.63,"text":"... ... ... ... ..."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief meeting with an unidentified man and woman in the Oval Office to discuss matters related to his presidential schedule. The conversation concluded within sixteen minutes, though the specific details of the agenda remain undocumented due to the lack of a transcript. No further actions or significant policy decisions were recorded during this brief encounter.","topics":["Presidential schedule","White House meetings","Oval Office","Administrative logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:20:05.600Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-schedule","white-house-meetings","oval-office","administrative-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"500-020.mp3","bytes":477309,"durationSec":11.79,"bitrate":323898,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:49.346Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/500-020.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/500-020","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/500/conversation-500-020","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}