{"conversationCode":"504-020","tapeNumber":504,"conversationNumber":20,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-504-020","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); White House operator;","description":"On May 27, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator 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 504-020 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. 504-20\n\nDate: May 27, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:27 pm and 9:00 pm\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n     Call to James Cardinal McIntyre in Los Angeles","filename":["504-020.mp3"],"tapeStart":"06:41:01","tapeEnd":"06:42:20","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"504-019","nextCode":"504-021","transcript":[{"start":0.74,"end":5.16,"text":"Can you try to get Cardinal Manantyre in Los Angeles, please?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place an outgoing telephone call to Cardinal James Francis McIntyre in Los Angeles. The primary purpose of this interaction was to facilitate direct communication between the President and the prominent religious leader. The request was executed immediately following the President's brief directive to the operator.","topics":["James Cardinal McIntyre","Presidential communication","Los Angeles","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T22:30:37.714Z"},"topicSlugs":["james-cardinal-mcintyre","presidential-communication","los-angeles","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"504-020.mp3","bytes":295493,"durationSec":7.24,"bitrate":326563,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:49.684Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/504-020.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/504-020","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/504/conversation-504-020","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}