{"conversationCode":"008-016","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-016","startDateTime":"1971-08-17T01:07:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-08-17T01:10:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Aug-1971","startTime":"9:07 PM","endDate":"16-Aug-1971","endTime":"9:10 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On August 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 9:07 pm to 9:10 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 008-016 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 8-16\n\nDate: August 16, 1971\nTime: 9:07 pm - 9:10 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Rose Mary Woods.\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal Returnable]\n[Duration: 2m 5s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n     Wage-price freeze speech [August 17, 1971 statement]\n         -Paul W. Keyes’ call\n         -Jack Drown's call\n               -Public response\n\n     Speech\n          -William L. Safire\n                -Draft [Knights of Columbus, August 17, 1971]\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2\n[Personal Returnable]\n[Duration: 7s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2\n\n**********************************************************************","filename":["008-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:26:15","tapeEnd":"00:29:28","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"008-015","nextCode":"008-017","transcript":[{"start":126.34,"end":148.91,"text":"And Paul Keith called today, and Jack Drown, and several people who have tried to call at night, but I guess couldn't get through."},{"start":148.93,"end":150.75,"text":"And, you know, the reaction is just universal."},{"start":150.77,"end":150.99,"text":"Just great."},{"start":151.01,"end":151.41,"text":"They're all pleased."},{"start":151.43,"end":152.09,"text":"And people around them, you know."},{"start":152.11,"end":154.59,"text":"Jack told about some waitresses that he heard in the coffee shop today, and a banker who said,"},{"start":154.93,"end":172.69,"text":"In some small town there, it was relatively small, 55,000, already had six bank loans for cars, new cars today."},{"start":172.71,"end":178.75,"text":"But I'm glad you went there."},{"start":178.77,"end":179.46,"text":"It's not over the draft."},{"start":179.51,"end":181.46,"text":"Is that another draft for tomorrow night meeting?"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, discussed the positive public reception following his announcement of a wage-price freeze. Woods reported favorable anecdotal feedback from various acquaintances, including Jack Drown, regarding the administration's new economic measures. The conversation also briefly touched upon the status of a draft speech being prepared by William Safire for the President’s upcoming address to the Knights of Columbus.","topics":["Wage-price freeze","Public opinion","Economic policy","William Safire","Speechwriting"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:40:24.116Z"},"topicSlugs":["wage-price-freeze","public-opinion","economic-policy","william-safire","speechwriting"],"audioDurationSec":193,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-016.mp3","bytes":4628688,"durationSec":192.81,"bitrate":192054,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","transcriptGapSeconds":40,"transcriptGapShare":0.21,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}