{"conversationCode":"504-018","tapeNumber":504,"conversationNumber":18,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-504-018","startDateTime":"1971-05-28T00:27:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-28T01:00:00.000Z","startDate":"27-May-1971","startTime":"8:27 PM","endDate":"27-May-1971","endTime":"9:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); McCloy, John J.;","description":"On May 27, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and John J. McCloy met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:27 pm and 9:00 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 504-018 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. 504-18\n\nDate: May 27, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:27 pm and 9:00 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President dictated a letter to John J. McCloy.\n\n     Thanks for McCloy's letter of May 21, 1971","filename":["504-018.mp3"],"tapeStart":"06:38:40","tapeEnd":"06:39:46","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","McCloy, John J."],"prevCode":"504-017","nextCode":"504-019","transcript":[{"start":5.18,"end":7.76,"text":"This is to, uh, McCloy, Jack."},{"start":7.78,"end":11.69,"text":"McCloy, dear Jack."},{"start":11.91,"end":14.85,"text":"A person that's known as Two-Fold."},{"start":14.87,"end":30.3,"text":"Oh, and thank you for your very generous, uh, letter to make my life, and also for your... What I do, Jane."},{"start":30.32,"end":30.46,"text":"And me."},{"start":35.69,"end":37.11,"text":"Get out of the way."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon uses this brief session to dictate a formal response to a May 21 letter he received from John J. McCloy. The President expresses his appreciation for McCloy’s generous correspondence and supportive sentiment regarding his presidency. This interaction serves as a routine administrative act to maintain diplomatic relations with a prominent advisor.","topics":["John J. McCloy","Correspondence","Presidential communication","Administrative record"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:30:26.854Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-j-mccloy","correspondence","presidential-communication","administrative-record"],"audioDurationSec":45,"audioFiles":[{"file":"504-018.mp3","bytes":1795967,"durationSec":44.77,"bitrate":320948,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:49.684Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/504-018.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/504-018","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/504/conversation-504-018","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}