{"conversationCode":"596-015","tapeNumber":596,"conversationNumber":15,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-596-015","startDateTime":"1971-10-19T16:53:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-19T16:54:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Oct-1971","startTime":"12:53 PM","endDate":"19-Oct-1971","endTime":"12:54 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On October 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:53 pm and 12:54 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 596-015 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. 596-15\n\nDate: October 19, 1971\n\nTime: Unknown between 12:53 pm and 12:54 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with an unknown person.\n\n     Request for meeting with Charles W. Colson\n         -Colson's schedule\n\nThe unknown person left at an unknown time before 12:54 pm.","filename":["596a.mp3","596b.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:38:12","tapeEnd":"02:38:44","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"596-014","nextCode":"596-016","tapeTranscriptFile":"596a.mp3,596b.mp3","transcript":[{"start":9455.93,"end":9458.32,"text":"I'll call you and I'll call you today."},{"start":9460.1,"end":9466.92,"text":"I do have the woman's name and Pat's letter to the West Virginia Seizure, and so I'm writing a letter, which you suggested."},{"start":9466.96,"end":9468.36,"text":"Well, I got it from Pat."},{"start":9468.39,"end":9470.69,"text":"It's not a big thing, but it's interesting."},{"start":9470.81,"end":9477.37,"text":"And then I'm going to say at the end that you said since you were unable, Pat was with you when the two of you met."},{"start":9478.88,"end":9490.62,"text":"And I said that since you were unable to have a basic lifter, that you're extending your own lens so it's often one of those little bow pins or something like that."},{"start":9490.64,"end":9492.7,"text":"Congratulations to Mr. Robson, Dr. Robson, and all that."},{"start":9493.05,"end":9499.19,"text":"Have a good day."},{"start":9501.21,"end":9502.17,"text":"Have a good day."},{"start":9505.35,"end":9513.72,"text":"I think that's the best one I've ever seen of anyone."},{"start":9513.92,"end":9521.06,"text":"Oh, you have to, for his to."},{"start":9521.1,"end":9524,"text":"Well, of course, he did that from a photograph."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":9428.25,"end":9524,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"tape_time"},"transcriptConfidence":"low","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with an unknown individual to coordinate a schedule for a meeting with Charles W. Colson. The participants discussed drafting a letter concerning a West Virginia seizure and personal correspondence from Pat Nixon. The conversation concluded with the President acknowledging a photograph and offering congratulations to Dr. Robson.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House scheduling","Correspondence","West Virginia"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T00:25:42.370Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-scheduling","correspondence","west-virginia"],"audioDurationSec":32,"audioFiles":[{"file":"596a.mp3","bytes":176062588,"durationSec":7335.88,"bitrate":192001,"missing":false},{"file":"596b.mp3","bytes":130844002,"durationSec":5451.77,"bitrate":192002,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:51.635Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/596a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/596b.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/596-015","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/596/conversation-596-015","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}