{"conversationCode":"502-002","tapeNumber":502,"conversationNumber":2,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-502-002","startDateTime":"1971-05-20T12:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-20T12:14:00.000Z","startDate":"20-May-1971","startTime":"8:05 AM","endDate":"20-May-1971","endTime":"8:14 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"[Unknown person(s)];","description":"On May 20, 1971, unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:05 am and 8:14 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 502-002 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. 502-2\n\nDate: May 20, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:05 am and 8:14 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nUnknown persons met\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and\nreleased 05/30/2019.]\n[Unintelligible]\n[502-002-w001]\n[Duration: 34s]\n\n[This portion of the tape is mostly room noise with some muffled background conversation.]\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nThe unknown persons left at an unknown time before 8:14 am.","filename":["502-002.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:10:58","tapeEnd":"00:11:45","participantsList":["[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"502-001","nextCode":"502-003","transcript":[{"start":5.21,"end":34.93,"text":"Grazie."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"This brief recording consists primarily of room noise and muffled, unintelligible background conversation between unidentified participants in the Oval Office. Because the audio quality prevents the identification of speakers or specific subject matter, no substantive policy discussions, decisions, or action items can be discerned. The segment serves as a record of administrative activity rather than a documented policy dialogue.","topics":["White House administration","Oval Office","unintelligible audio","historical record"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:24:38.589Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-administration","oval-office","unintelligible-audio","historical-record"],"audioDurationSec":35,"audioFiles":[{"file":"502-002.mp3","bytes":1400999,"durationSec":34.88,"bitrate":321300,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:49.684Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/502-002.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/502-002","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/502/conversation-502-002","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}