{"conversationCode":"504-014","tapeNumber":504,"conversationNumber":14,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-504-014","startDateTime":"1971-05-27T20:26:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-27T20:28:00.000Z","startDate":"27-May-1971","startTime":"4:26 PM","endDate":"27-May-1971","endTime":"4:28 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On May 27, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:26 pm and 4:28 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 504-014 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. 504-14\n\nDate: May 27, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 4:26 pm and 4:28 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Stephen B. Bull.\n\n     President's schedule\n          -Meeting with Ronald L. Ziegler, Egil G. (“Bud”) Krogh, Jr., and John D. Ehrlichman\n\nBull left at an unknown time before 4:28 pm.","filename":["504-014.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:31:22","tapeEnd":"04:31:41","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"504-013","nextCode":"504-015","transcript":[{"start":5.72,"end":17.24,"text":"Yeah, well, there's a sword."},{"start":17.26,"end":17.62,"text":"We have the sword."},{"start":17.64,"end":18.26,"text":"That's how we use that knife."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met briefly in the Oval Office to coordinate the President's upcoming schedule. The discussion focused on finalizing arrangements for a subsequent meeting involving Ronald Ziegler, Egil Krogh, and John Ehrlichman. This short exchange served primarily as a logistical check-in to ensure the administration's staff were prepared for their scheduled appointments.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","White House administration","Staff coordination","Logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:30:04.227Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","white-house-administration","staff-coordination","logistics"],"audioDurationSec":21,"audioFiles":[{"file":"504-014.mp3","bytes":861828,"durationSec":21.4,"bitrate":322217,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:49.684Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/504-014.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/504-014","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/504/conversation-504-014","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}