{"conversationCode":"007-131","tapeNumber":7,"conversationNumber":131,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-007-131","startDateTime":"1971-08-16T02:22:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-16T02:23:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Aug-1971","startTime":"10:22 PM","endDate":"15-Aug-1971","endTime":"10:23 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On August 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 10:22 pm to 10:23 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 007-131 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. 7-131\n\nDate: August 15, 1971\nTime: 10:22 pm - 10:23 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Rose Mary Woods.\n\n     Wage–price freeze speech\n         -Woods’ reaction\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 08/09/2019.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[007-131-w001]\n[Duration: 10s]\n\n     Wage–price freeze speech\n         -The President’s workload\n\n**********************************************************************","filename":["007-131.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:57:44","tapeEnd":"04:58:53","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"007-130","nextCode":"007-132","transcript":[{"start":1.04,"end":2.2,"text":"Hello."},{"start":2.23,"end":2.4,"text":"Hi."},{"start":2.85,"end":3.85,"text":"Hi, Rose."},{"start":3.87,"end":4.59,"text":"How are you doing?"},{"start":4.61,"end":5.65,"text":"Like you survived?"},{"start":5.67,"end":6.53,"text":"Oh, yes."},{"start":6.69,"end":7.15,"text":"I survived."},{"start":7.27,"end":7.95,"text":"All done."},{"start":8.77,"end":12,"text":"Yeah, and I think it apparently went over very well."},{"start":13.06,"end":17.08,"text":"I stayed at the office for a little while, and then I decided to come on home."},{"start":17.58,"end":18.25,"text":"Good."},{"start":18.27,"end":24.15,"text":"And my family, I talked to Sam, and they thought it was just wonderful."},{"start":24.35,"end":27.78,"text":"And my sister said, you know, I don't know a thing about economics, but it sounded..."},{"start":28.57,"end":32.47,"text":"Well, this is a very technical subject."},{"start":32.49,"end":40.26,"text":"Yes, but it's sound that even she felt that it was something that, you know, needed to be done and was being done."},{"start":40.28,"end":47.43,"text":"And I heard from Claudia, who talked to a couple of people who were businessmen, who thought it was just great."},{"start":48.43,"end":51.62,"text":"It was done a good job."},{"start":51.63,"end":57.02,"text":"So that's all I talked to, because what I did was just pack some things up and come on home."},{"start":57.42,"end":59.53,"text":"It's a long day, and thank you very much."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, discussed the public reception of the President's televised address announcing a new wage-price freeze. Woods relayed positive feedback from her family and business contacts, reinforcing the perception that the speech effectively communicated necessary economic measures to a lay audience. The brief exchange served to confirm the initial success of the announcement following a demanding day for the administration.","topics":["Wage-price freeze","Economic policy","Public relations","Rose Mary Woods","Nixon Administration"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:35:46.786Z"},"topicSlugs":["wage-price-freeze","economic-policy","public-relations","rose-mary-woods","nixon-administration"],"audioDurationSec":69,"audioFiles":[{"file":"007-131.mp3","bytes":1648221,"durationSec":68.62,"bitrate":192161,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.707Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/007-131.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-131","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/7/conversation-007-131","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}