{"conversationCode":"010-046","tapeNumber":10,"conversationNumber":46,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-010-046","startDateTime":"1971-10-05T21:18:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-05T21:19:00.000Z","startDate":"5-Oct-1971","startTime":"5:18 PM","endDate":"5-Oct-1971","endTime":"5:19 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Connally, John B.;","description":"On October 5, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and John B. Connally talked on the telephone from 5:18 pm to 5:19 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 010-046 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. 10-46\n\nDate: October 5, 1971\nTime: 5:18 pm - 5:19 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with John B. Connally.\n\n[See Conversation No. 585-14]\n\n     Connally's novelty \"money\" from the Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW]\n         -Novelty","filename":["010-046.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:31:50","tapeEnd":"01:32:21","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Connally, John B."],"prevCode":"010-045","nextCode":"010-047","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.63,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":1.65,"end":1.89,"text":"Secretary."},{"start":1.91,"end":2.23,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":2.27,"end":4.78,"text":"I just wondered if you saw your money yet."},{"start":4.8,"end":5.32,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":5.74,"end":6.58,"text":"Isn't that cute?"},{"start":6.6,"end":7.38,"text":"It really is."},{"start":7.7,"end":9.61,"text":"I'm leaving it on my desk, John."},{"start":9.67,"end":11.65,"text":"I'm going to, you know, it just got frozen money."},{"start":11.67,"end":12.59,"text":"I think it's great."},{"start":12.61,"end":13.57,"text":"I think it's wonderful."},{"start":13.63,"end":14.41,"text":"These guys thought it up."},{"start":14.45,"end":14.89,"text":"It looks like."},{"start":14.91,"end":16.66,"text":"I really believe it's only $2, though."},{"start":16.64,"end":17.12,"text":"It is."},{"start":17.34,"end":17.76,"text":"Oh, it is."},{"start":17.8,"end":18.4,"text":"Split dollar."},{"start":18.44,"end":20.05,"text":"Maybe they even chiseled it some further."},{"start":20.09,"end":21.19,"text":"Maybe they split a dollar."},{"start":21.29,"end":22.63,"text":"They may have."},{"start":22.69,"end":26.24,"text":"Whatever they did, they've got it on either side, and it looks like 500 bucks."},{"start":26.3,"end":26.94,"text":"Yeah, it really does."},{"start":26.98,"end":27.95,"text":"It's very clever."},{"start":27.97,"end":28.49,"text":"It's really cute."},{"start":28.77,"end":29.15,"text":"Okay."},{"start":29.27,"end":29.79,"text":"Thank you, sir."},{"start":30.09,"end":30.49,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Treasury Secretary John B. Connally share a brief, informal exchange regarding a piece of novelty currency presented to Connally by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The two discuss the visual design and cleverness of the item, which appears to be a split or modified dollar bill designed to look like a much larger denomination. No policy decisions were made during this social call.","topics":["Novelty currency","John B. Connally","Veterans of Foreign Wars","White House informal communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:06:49.807Z"},"topicSlugs":["novelty-currency","john-b-connally","veterans-of-foreign-wars","white-house-informal-communications"],"audioDurationSec":31,"audioFiles":[{"file":"010-046.mp3","bytes":739786,"durationSec":30.75,"bitrate":192447,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.039Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/010-046.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/010-046","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/10/conversation-010-046","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}