{"conversationCode":"005-150","tapeNumber":5,"conversationNumber":150,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-005-150","startDateTime":"1971-06-23T19:41:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-23T19:43:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Jun-1971","startTime":"3:41 PM","endDate":"23-Jun-1971","endTime":"3:43 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On June 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone from 3:41 pm to 3:43 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 005-150 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. 5-150\n\nDate: June 23, 1971\nTime: 3:41 pm - 3:43 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 258-51]\n     Call to Michael McGreevey\n\nThe President talked with J. Phillip Campbell.\n\n     Campbell's schedule\n\n     Campbell's defense of D.C. Police Chief Jerry V. Wilson at Southern Agriculture\n         Secretaries meeting\n         -President's and John N. Mitchell's defense of Wilson\n\n     Doyle Connors’ comments regarding President\n          -John C. 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(President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"005-149","nextCode":"005-151","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":3.83,"text":"Mr. President, you called Michael McGreevy."},{"start":3.85,"end":4.8,"text":"The number doesn't answer."},{"start":4.82,"end":5.56,"text":"I'll keep trying."},{"start":5.94,"end":8.76,"text":"I do have Undersecretary Philip Campbell for you."},{"start":8.78,"end":8.92,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":10.34,"end":10.82,"text":"Go ahead, sir."},{"start":11.06,"end":11.42,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":11.82,"end":12.44,"text":"Mr. President?"},{"start":12.74,"end":14.43,"text":"You're out in Wisconsin, I understand."},{"start":14.45,"end":19.19,"text":"I'm at the Forest Research Laboratory right now looking at all the wonderful things they're doing."},{"start":19.39,"end":20.07,"text":"Well, that's great."},{"start":20.15,"end":23.68,"text":"I just called to tell you that I'm sitting here doing some of my..."},{"start":24.09,"end":47.15,"text":"uh general reading and i i uh came across the appearance you made at the meeting of agricultural secretaries in the south and the very effective way you spoke up for chief wilson and i i just want to thank you for it and tell you that we glad to have such a hard-hitting guy on our team well you're mighty kind mr president i hope i was afraid i'd embarrass you instead and not at all do that"},{"start":47.13,"end":47.95,"text":"No, sir."},{"start":48.09,"end":54.44,"text":"You've got to really step up, and as you notice, I've taken exactly the same line myself."},{"start":55.02,"end":60.87,"text":"Well, I knew that the Attorney General had, and you had, and this group down there appreciates this very much."},{"start":61.23,"end":70.98,"text":"The president of this group, Mr. President, Donald Conner, is a Democrat from Georgia, elected, and he spent five minutes bragging on you."},{"start":71.08,"end":73.19,"text":"I've turned this over to John Whitaker."},{"start":73.5,"end":73.86,"text":"Good."},{"start":74.07,"end":75.53,"text":"So that you would know about it."},{"start":75.55,"end":75.79,"text":"Great."},{"start":75.81,"end":78.11,"text":"Well, we'll try to get him into something one of these days."},{"start":78.57,"end":82.9,"text":"You might tell John when you get back to include him in some White House function sometime."},{"start":82.92,"end":84.8,"text":"Yeah, well, he was here on the May Day affair."},{"start":84.92,"end":85.66,"text":"Oh, we saw him then."},{"start":86.14,"end":86.24,"text":"Good."},{"start":86.26,"end":88.06,"text":"And he bragged on this for five minutes."},{"start":88.12,"end":88.4,"text":"Great."},{"start":89.86,"end":92.03,"text":"Well, we appreciate your hard work out there."},{"start":92.07,"end":94.19,"text":"And give those people out there my best, will you?"},{"start":94.21,"end":94.71,"text":"I sure will."},{"start":95.07,"end":95.17,"text":"Bye."},{"start":95.27,"end":96.37,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."},{"start":96.39,"end":96.47,"text":"Bye."},{"start":96.49,"end":96.71,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted Undersecretary of Agriculture J. Phillip Campbell to commend his public defense of D.C. Police Chief Jerry V. Wilson during a recent meeting of Southern agricultural secretaries. The President affirmed his own support for Wilson and emphasized the importance of aggressive advocacy for administration figures. They also discussed positive feedback Nixon received regarding Georgia Democrat Doyle Connors, with the President directing John Whitaker to ensure Connors is considered for future White House functions.","topics":["Jerry V. Wilson","J. Phillip Campbell","Doyle Connors","Public Relations","Department of Agriculture","Political Appointments"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:03:48.014Z"},"topicSlugs":["jerry-v-wilson","j-phillip-campbell","doyle-connors","public-relations","department-of-agriculture","political-appointments"],"audioDurationSec":97,"audioFiles":[{"file":"005-150.mp3","bytes":1221287,"durationSec":97.22,"bitrate":100497,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.079Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/005-150.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/005-150","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/5/conversation-005-150","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}