{"conversationCode":"501-025","tapeNumber":501,"conversationNumber":25,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-501-025","startDateTime":"1971-05-19T20:28:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-19T20:38:00.000Z","startDate":"19-May-1971","startTime":"4:28 PM","endDate":"19-May-1971","endTime":"4:38 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On May 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:28 pm and 4:38 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 501-025 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. 501-25\n\nDate: May 19, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:28 pm and 4:38 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with an unknown person.\n\n     President's schedule\n           -Meeting with unknown person","filename":["501-025.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:59:30","tapeEnd":"05:00:23","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"501-024","nextCode":"501-026","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":12.44,"text":"Are you free to go over that stuff a little bit more, please?"},{"start":12.46,"end":13.36,"text":"Or what are you doing now?"},{"start":13.38,"end":13.56,"text":"Oh, yeah."},{"start":13.58,"end":15.18,"text":"Well, I have some money to buy, so I'm going to finish the apartment tent first."},{"start":15.2,"end":15.46,"text":"No, no, no."},{"start":15.48,"end":16.08,"text":"Take the tent."},{"start":16.1,"end":17.14,"text":"Take whatever you want."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, informal meeting with an unidentified individual to discuss personal or logistical matters rather than official government business. The conversation centers on the logistics of obtaining specific items, including the acquisition of a tent and apartment-related arrangements. No policy decisions or significant administrative actions were recorded during this brief exchange.","topics":["Personal logistics","Oval Office interactions","Informal discussion"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:23:53.168Z"},"topicSlugs":["personal-logistics","oval-office-interactions","informal-discussion"],"audioDurationSec":18,"audioFiles":[{"file":"501-025.mp3","bytes":735399,"durationSec":18.26,"bitrate":322219,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:49.683Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/501-025.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/501-025","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/501/conversation-501-025","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}