{"conversationCode":"010-104","tapeNumber":10,"conversationNumber":104,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-010-104","startDateTime":"1971-10-07T00:39:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-07T00:40:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Oct-1971","startTime":"8:39 PM","endDate":"6-Oct-1971","endTime":"8:40 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Safire, William L.;","description":"On October 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and William L. Safire talked on the telephone from 8:39 pm to 8:40 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 010-104 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. 10-104\n\nDate: October 6, 1971\nTime: 8:39 pm and 8:40 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe White House operator talked with the President.\n\n     Call from William L. Safire\n\nSafire talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 284-21]\n\n     Economic speech draft\n         -Safire's schedule","filename":["010-104.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:19:13","tapeEnd":"03:19:32","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator","Safire, William L."],"prevCode":"010-103","nextCode":"010-105","transcript":[{"start":0.18,"end":2.07,"text":"Hello."},{"start":2.25,"end":4.11,"text":"Mr. Sapphire would like to speak with you, sir."},{"start":4.41,"end":4.99,"text":"Yeah, hello."},{"start":5.01,"end":5.38,"text":"All right."},{"start":6.16,"end":6.64,"text":"There you are."},{"start":6.78,"end":7.1,"text":"Hello."},{"start":7.46,"end":7.78,"text":"Hello, sir."},{"start":8.16,"end":8.5,"text":"Hi, Bill."},{"start":8.68,"end":10.83,"text":"I have it all cleared and not badly mangled at all."},{"start":11.29,"end":12.03,"text":"All right, fine."},{"start":12.13,"end":12.93,"text":"You want to come over now?"},{"start":13.13,"end":13.63,"text":"Sure, any time."},{"start":14.05,"end":14.4,"text":"All right."},{"start":14.42,"end":15.68,"text":"Where are you at the... EOB."},{"start":15.9,"end":16.52,"text":"Right, right there."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and William Safire discussed the status of an economic speech draft, with Safire confirming that the document had been reviewed and finalized without significant revisions. The President invited Safire to the White House from the Executive Office Building to review the work in person. This brief exchange served to coordinate the finalization and presentation of the administration's upcoming economic policy messaging.","topics":["Economic policy","Speechwriting","William Safire","Executive Office Building","White House administration"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:11:56.636Z"},"topicSlugs":["economic-policy","speechwriting","william-safire","executive-office-building","white-house-administration"],"audioDurationSec":18,"audioFiles":[{"file":"010-104.mp3","bytes":433840,"durationSec":18.01,"bitrate":192735,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.709Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/010-104.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/010-104","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/10/conversation-010-104","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}