{"conversationCode":"007-150","tapeNumber":7,"conversationNumber":150,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-007-150","startDateTime":"1971-08-16T03:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-16T03:22:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Aug-1971","startTime":"11:20 PM","endDate":"15-Aug-1971","endTime":"11:22 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Safire, William L.;","description":"On August 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and William L. Safire talked on the telephone from 11:20 pm to 11:22 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 007-150 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. 7-150\n\nDate: August 15, 1971\nTime: 11:20 pm - 11:22 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with William L. Safire.\n\n     Wage-price freeze speech\n         -Safire's reaction\n         -The President's talk with Pierre Rinfret\n         -Wording\n         -Safire's reaction","filename":["007-150.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:44:04","tapeEnd":"05:45:14","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Safire, William L."],"prevCode":"007-149","nextCode":"007-151","transcript":[{"start":0.54,"end":8.65,"text":"Well, we got the baby launched."},{"start":8.67,"end":10.71,"text":"Boy, that was a pinstripe."},{"start":10.73,"end":22.11,"text":"Really a beautiful delivery."},{"start":22.12,"end":23.85,"text":"Well, we, uh, we, uh, we, uh, shook up a little."},{"start":23.87,"end":25.63,"text":"See, that's not what I heard."},{"start":25.65,"end":26.15,"text":"No, I mean shook up good."},{"start":26.17,"end":26.37,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":26.39,"end":26.57,"text":"Possibly."},{"start":26.59,"end":26.73,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":26.75,"end":27.41,"text":"You know what I mean?"},{"start":27.43,"end":27.91,"text":"In a great direction."},{"start":28.5,"end":47.36,"text":"Oh, I caught a man."},{"start":47.38,"end":49.48,"text":"Yeah, he, he, he, he told me, he told me."},{"start":49.5,"end":51.09,"text":"And, uh, uh, some of those lines really fit."},{"start":51.11,"end":52.59,"text":"That's, uh, that's the hostage thing, which is what's going on right here."},{"start":52.61,"end":53.43,"text":"And I think you had your lips at the end."},{"start":53.45,"end":54.15,"text":"You think it got through to you?"},{"start":54.17,"end":54.27,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":54.29,"end":55.09,"text":"I got through some."},{"start":55.11,"end":56.63,"text":"Well, anyway, it's been a, quite a,"},{"start":57.73,"end":58.43,"text":"exercise."},{"start":58.49,"end":61.74,"text":"Now I'll take a little rest."},{"start":61.76,"end":63.86,"text":"No, I got everybody called in tomorrow morning."},{"start":63.88,"end":64.34,"text":"Okay, bud."},{"start":64.89,"end":65.61,"text":"Well, many thanks."},{"start":65.87,"end":66.93,"text":"It was a great trip."},{"start":67.15,"end":67.75,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":67.77,"end":68.21,"text":"Well, good."},{"start":68.45,"end":69.36,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and speechwriter William Safire discussed the reception and delivery of the President’s televised address announcing the wage-price freeze. The conversation focused on the public impact of the speech's rhetoric and the successful launch of the new economic policy. Nixon concluded the brief call by confirming he had scheduled a follow-up meeting with his team for the following morning.","topics":["Wage-price freeze","Economic policy","Speechwriting","Public relations","Nixon Administration"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:37:28.920Z"},"topicSlugs":["wage-price-freeze","economic-policy","speechwriting","public-relations","nixon-administration"],"audioDurationSec":70,"audioFiles":[{"file":"007-150.mp3","bytes":1692106,"durationSec":70.43,"bitrate":192208,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.471Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:34.870Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/007-150.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/007-150","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/7/conversation-007-150","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}