{"conversationCode":"010-079","tapeNumber":10,"conversationNumber":79,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-010-079","startDateTime":"1971-10-06T15:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-06T15:45:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Oct-1971","startTime":"11:44 AM","endDate":"6-Oct-1971","endTime":"11:45 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Safire, William L.;","description":"On October 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and William L. Safire talked on the telephone from 11:44 am to 11:45 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 010-079 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. 10-79\n\nDate: October 6, 1971\nTime: 11:44 am - 11:45 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with William L. Safire.\n\n[See Conversation No. 278-30]\n\n     Timing\n          -President's schedule","filename":["010-079.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:36:14","tapeEnd":"02:36:43","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Safire, William L."],"prevCode":"010-078","nextCode":"010-080","transcript":[{"start":1.52,"end":2.14,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":2.44,"end":3.98,"text":"Mr. Sapphire, Mr. President."},{"start":4,"end":4.22,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":4.86,"end":5.9,"text":"Hello, Mr. President."},{"start":5.96,"end":6.68,"text":"Just one small thing."},{"start":6.98,"end":9.77,"text":"If you could move that up to 4 o'clock, it would be a little better."},{"start":10.63,"end":10.77,"text":"Fine."},{"start":11.73,"end":13.37,"text":"That will give me a..."},{"start":13.39,"end":15.55,"text":"I find I have to leave here about 5.30 or so."},{"start":15.94,"end":16.22,"text":"Okay."},{"start":16.24,"end":19.2,"text":"So that way..."},{"start":19.58,"end":21.32,"text":"But that's plenty soon, 4 o'clock."},{"start":21.56,"end":22.2,"text":"Okay, fine."},{"start":22.22,"end":22.66,"text":"I'll be ready."},{"start":22.68,"end":22.88,"text":"Good."},{"start":23.25,"end":24.81,"text":"And I think we've got a very good start."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and speechwriter William Safire discussed adjustments to the President's upcoming schedule to accommodate his departure time. Nixon requested that a previously planned meeting be moved to 4:00 pm to ensure it concluded before he needed to leave at 5:30 pm. The brief call concluded with both parties confirming the new time and expressing satisfaction with the progress of their ongoing work.","topics":["Presidential schedule","White House operations","William Safire","Time management"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:09:40.517Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-schedule","white-house-operations","william-safire","time-management"],"audioDurationSec":29,"audioFiles":[{"file":"010-079.mp3","bytes":693393,"durationSec":28.82,"bitrate":192463,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.039Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/010-079.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/010-079","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/10/conversation-010-079","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}