{"conversationCode":"005-008","tapeNumber":5,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-005-008","startDateTime":"1971-06-11T20:09:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-11T20:11:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Jun-1971","startTime":"4:09 PM","endDate":"11-Jun-1971","endTime":"4:11 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Richardson, Elliot L.;","description":"On June 11, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Elliot L. Richardson talked on the telephone from 4:09 pm to 4:11 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 005-008 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":"None","filename":["005-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:09:36","tapeEnd":"00:10:18","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Richardson, Elliot L."],"prevCode":"005-007","nextCode":"005-009","transcript":[{"start":0.13,"end":2.68,"text":"Hello."},{"start":2.78,"end":3.5,"text":"Secretary Richardson, sir."},{"start":3.52,"end":4.72,"text":"Hello, Mr. President."},{"start":4.74,"end":9.73,"text":"I just wanted you to know that I was really delighted to see that piece in the Times."},{"start":9.93,"end":13.89,"text":"I just came across the desk today on you."},{"start":15.01,"end":17.3,"text":"Oh, that was very nice of you."},{"start":17.38,"end":18.5,"text":"Wasn't that a good one, though?"},{"start":18.52,"end":20.22,"text":"Yes, remarkably so."},{"start":20.24,"end":24.37,"text":"Ehrlichman and I were just sitting here talking, and he had brought it in to me."},{"start":24.43,"end":26.73,"text":"I don't go through the papers completely."},{"start":27.2,"end":29.25,"text":"And the day before yesterday, I guess it was."},{"start":29.33,"end":31.06,"text":"And it was just excellent."},{"start":31.12,"end":32.04,"text":"Excellent."},{"start":32.06,"end":33.31,"text":"Much deserved, too."},{"start":33.33,"end":35.32,"text":"Just be sure all the people over there appreciate you."},{"start":35.38,"end":36.64,"text":"They're lucky to have you."},{"start":36.78,"end":38.53,"text":"Thank you very much."},{"start":38.63,"end":40.92,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon called Secretary of Defense Elliot L. Richardson to offer personal praise for a favorable article about Richardson recently published in the New York Times. Nixon noted that he and John Ehrlichman had reviewed the piece and agreed it was an excellent and well-deserved assessment of the Secretary's performance. The President concluded the call by emphasizing to Richardson that his staff at the Department of Defense should recognize the value of his leadership.","topics":["Elliot L. Richardson","New York Times","Media coverage","Executive communication","John Ehrlichman"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T21:50:58.893Z"},"topicSlugs":["elliot-l-richardson","new-york-times","media-coverage","executive-communication","john-ehrlichman"],"audioDurationSec":41,"audioFiles":[{"file":"005-008.mp3","bytes":503641,"durationSec":40.88,"bitrate":98548,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.571Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/005-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/005-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/5/conversation-005-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}