{"conversationCode":"639-027","tapeNumber":639,"conversationNumber":27,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-639-027","startDateTime":"1971-12-21T22:58:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-21T23:07:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Dec-1971","startTime":"5:58 PM","endDate":"21-Dec-1971","endTime":"6:07 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On December 21, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 5:58 pm and 6:07 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 639-027 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. 639-027\n\nDate: December 21, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:58 pm and 6:07 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Stephen B. Bull.\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous archivists categorized this section as unintelligible. It has been rereviewed and\nreleased 06/14/2019.]\n[Unintelligible]\n[639-027-w001]\n[Duration: 8s]\n\n     Request\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nBull left at an unknown time before 6:07 pm.","filename":["639-027.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:56:49","tapeEnd":"03:59:29","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"639-026","nextCode":"639-028","transcript":[{"start":0.83,"end":2.17,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":2.23,"end":2.88,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":3.12,"end":4.24,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":4.9,"end":5.8,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his aide Stephen B. Bull in the Oval Office to conduct brief administrative or logistical business. The conversation, which lasted less than ten minutes, consists of unintelligible dialogue and polite exchanges before Bull departed. No substantive policy discussions or significant presidential decisions are recorded in the available transcript.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","Administrative staff","White House operations","Oval Office meetings"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T01:37:41.057Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","administrative-staff","white-house-operations","oval-office-meetings"],"audioDurationSec":9,"audioFiles":[{"file":"639-027.mp3","bytes":350208,"durationSec":8.62,"bitrate":324960,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:54.662Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:44:11.556Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/639-027.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/639-027","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/639/conversation-639-027","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}