{"conversationCode":"553-002","tapeNumber":553,"conversationNumber":2,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-553-002","startDateTime":"1971-08-02T12:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-02T13:20:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Aug-1971","startTime":"8:35 AM","endDate":"2-Aug-1971","endTime":"9:20 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On August 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:35 am and 9:20 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 553-002 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 553-2\n\nDate: August 2, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 8:35 am and 9:20 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with an unknown person.\n\n     Request for someone to come to Oval Office","filename":["553-002.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:09:55","tapeEnd":"00:13:18","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"553-001","nextCode":"553-003","transcript":[{"start":1.09,"end":1.82,"text":"Hey."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, informal session in the Oval Office with an unidentified individual. The interaction consisted primarily of the President issuing a direct request for a specific person to report to his office. No substantive policy discussions or further developments were captured in this brief exchange.","topics":["Presidential logistics","Oval Office operations","Administrative requests"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T23:35:26.826Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-logistics","oval-office-operations","administrative-request"],"audioDurationSec":10,"audioFiles":[{"file":"553-002.mp3","bytes":421934,"durationSec":10.41,"bitrate":324101,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:51.012Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/553-002.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/553-002","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/553/conversation-553-002","catalogNaId":417178717,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417178717","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}