{"conversationCode":"003-064","tapeNumber":3,"conversationNumber":64,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-003-064","startDateTime":"1971-05-19T13:45:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-05-19T13:46:00.000Z","startDate":"19-May-1971","startTime":"9:45 AM","endDate":"19-May-1971","endTime":"9:46 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\");","description":"On May 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 9:45 am to 9:46 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 003-064 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. 003-064\n\nDate: May 19, 1971\nTime: 9:45 am - 9:46 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nH.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 501-004B]\n\n     President's schedule\n          -Visit of King Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud\n                 -A dinner\n                       -Date\n          -President's press conference\n                 -Date\n          -King Faisal's visit\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n                 -A dinner\n                      -Date","filename":["003-064.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:14:17","tapeEnd":"01:15:02","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\")"],"prevCode":"003-063","nextCode":"003-065","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.47,"text":"Mr. Haldeman, sir."},{"start":1.83,"end":3.52,"text":"There you are."},{"start":3.54,"end":3.77,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":3.81,"end":4.08,"text":"Hello."},{"start":4.5,"end":9.84,"text":"When Faisal comes, I'd prefer to do that as a dinner."},{"start":10.7,"end":11.28,"text":"You know what I mean?"},{"start":12.24,"end":16.77,"text":"Faisal, rather than seeing him at 11 o'clock, remember we had a problem on Friday and so forth."},{"start":16.79,"end":26.12,"text":"Why don't you offer him, if you could, a dinner on... We're going to do a press conference Friday night, aren't we?"},{"start":26.14,"end":26.38,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":26.48,"end":27.74,"text":"Was that the problem?"},{"start":27.76,"end":28.02,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":28.36,"end":28.62,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":29.09,"end":32.74,"text":"Well, could you go for a dinner on, say, Wednesday night?"},{"start":32.76,"end":33.52,"text":"We can sure see."},{"start":34.2,"end":36.16,"text":"Or Saturday night, or something like that."},{"start":36.18,"end":37.27,"text":"Well, take a look, will you?"},{"start":37.59,"end":38.43,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":38.49,"end":40.19,"text":"See what we can work out on the dinner side."},{"start":40.75,"end":41.17,"text":"Fine."},{"start":41.19,"end":41.59,"text":"Okay."},{"start":41.62,"end":43,"text":"Right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and H. R. Haldeman discussed coordinating the logistics of King Faisal’s upcoming state visit to avoid scheduling conflicts with a scheduled press conference. Nixon directed Haldeman to shift the King’s visit from an 11:00 am meeting to a formal dinner. Haldeman agreed to review the schedule and identify a suitable night, such as Wednesday or Saturday, to accommodate the change.","topics":["King Faisal","Presidential Scheduling","H. R. Haldeman","Press Conference","State Visit"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:26:27.246Z"},"topicSlugs":["king-faisal","presidential-scheduling","h-r-haldeman","press-conference","state-visit"],"audioDurationSec":43,"audioFiles":[{"file":"003-064.mp3","bytes":538976,"durationSec":43.27,"bitrate":99653,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.571Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:33.598Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/003-064.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/003-064","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/3/conversation-003-064","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}