{"conversationCode":"001-085","tapeNumber":1,"conversationNumber":85,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-001-085","startDateTime":"1971-04-15T00:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-15T00:54:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Apr-1971","startTime":"7:45 PM","endDate":"14-Apr-1971","endTime":"7:54 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Eisenhower, Julie Nixon;","description":"On April 14, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 7:45 pm to 7:54 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-085 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 1-85\n\nDate: April 14, 1971\nTime: 7:45 pm - 7:54 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Julie Nixon Eisenhower and David Eisenhower.\n\n*****************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 12/20/2017. 8m\n42s segment cleared for release. 18s remaining closed as 001-085-w001.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[001-085-w001]\n[Duration: 8m 42s]\n\n       The President’s Vietnam speech, April 7, 1971\n            -James J. Kilpatrick, Jr. editorial in Virginia Beach Star Ledger\n                   -[First Name Unknown] Thomas\n                   -Reaction\n                          -Comparison to Inaugural address\n                          -Political expediency\n            -Polls\n                   -David Eisenhower\n                   -Approval\n                   -Disapproval\n                          -War\n                          -Laos\n\n       Carl L. Yastrzemski\n             -MVP Award given to the President\n             -Back\n                   -Dr. W. Kenneth Riland\n                   -Batting average\n\n\fThe President talked with David Eisenhower at an unknown time between 7:45 and 7:54 P.M.\n\n       The President’s conversation with Carl L. Yastrzemski\n            -Former meeting with David Eisenhower\n                  -All Stars game\n            -Anti-drug speeches at high school\n            -Back\n                  -Dr. W. Kenneth Riland\n\n       Carl L. Yastrzemski\n             -Baseball skills\n                   -Potential batting average\n                   -Salary\n                   -David Eisenhower’s opinion\n                         -Comparison to Alex Johnson\n                         -Home run hits\n             -Family\n             -Support for the President\n             -Washington Post coverage\n             -MVP Award given to the President\n             -Denny D. Mclain\n             -Boston Red Sox\n             -Washington Senators\n\n       Baseball\n            -Boston Red Sox\n            -Washington Senators\n                 -Denny D. Mclain\n                 -Dick Bosman\n\n       Carl L. Yastrzemski\n             -The President’s opinion\n\n       The President’s Vietnam speech, April 7, 1971\n            -Polls\n                   -Approval\n                   -Opinion of Vietnam War\n\n       The President’s People’s Republic of China [PRC] initiative\n            -Press reaction\n                  -Ping Pong team\n            -American reaction\n                  -Communism\n                  -Chinese isolationism\n                         -Taiwan\n                              -United Nations\n                              -Russian opinion\n\f*****************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal Returnable]\n[001-085-w001]\n[Duration: 18s]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n*****************************************************************","filename":["001-085.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:54:06","tapeEnd":"03:03:06","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. 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Additionally, the participants engaged in a lighthearted dialogue concerning professional baseball, specifically discussing Carl Yastrzemski’s career and the President’s receipt of an MVP award.","topics":["Vietnam War","People's Republic of China","Public opinion polls","Major League Baseball","Carl Yastrzemski","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T20:59:13.860Z"},"topicSlugs":["vietnam-war","peoples-republic-of-china","public-opinion-polls","major-league-baseball","carl-yastrzemski","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":540,"audioFiles":[{"file":"001-085.mp3","bytes":12958823,"durationSec":539.89,"bitrate":192023,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.350Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/001-085.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/001-085","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/1/conversation-001-085","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}