{"conversationCode":"865-027","tapeNumber":865,"conversationNumber":27,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-865-027","startDateTime":"1973-02-28T21:23:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-02-28T21:25:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Feb-1973","startTime":"4:23 PM","endDate":"28-Feb-1973","endTime":"4:25 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On February 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:23 pm and 4:25 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 865-027 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":"5.4","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part IV","chronReleaseDate":"8-Dec-2010","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 865-27\n\nDate: February 28, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 4:23 pm and 4:25 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with an unknown man.\n\n       Participants for subsequent meeting\n\nThe unknown man left at an unknown time before 4:25 pm.","filename":["865-027.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"865-026","nextCode":"865-028","transcript":[{"start":2.01,"end":2.53,"text":"Do they all hear us?"},{"start":2.55,"end":3.54,"text":"All right, fine."}],"audioDurationSec":12,"audioFiles":[{"file":"865-027.mp3","bytes":281114,"durationSec":11.59,"bitrate":194094,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:00.696Z","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon briefly conferred with an unidentified man in the Oval Office. The conversation appears to have been a preliminary check before a subsequent meeting, as indicated by a question about whether \"they all hear us?\" The meeting was extremely short, lasting only a couple of minutes, and no substantive topics or decisions were recorded.","topics":["Oval Office meeting","Preliminary discussion","Unknown participant","Meeting logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-09-18T02:24:11.930Z"},"topicSlugs":["oval-office-meeting","preliminary-discussion","unknown-participant","meeting-logistics"],"audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/865-027.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/865-027","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/865/conversation-865-027","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}