{"conversationCode":"013-006","tapeNumber":13,"conversationNumber":6,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-013-006","startDateTime":"1971-10-26T14:18:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-26T15:13:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Oct-1971","startTime":"10:18 AM","endDate":"26-Oct-1971","endTime":"11:13 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;","description":"On October 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 10:18 am and 11:13 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 013-006 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. 013-006\n\nDate: October 26, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 10:18 am and 11:13 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nAlexander M. Haig, Jr. talked with the President.\n[See Conversation No. 601-36/602-1H]\n\n     Ronald L. Ziegler's announcement\n          -William P. Rogers’ noon announcement\n               -Coordination with Haig\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542","filename":["013-006.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:03:28","tapeEnd":"00:03:56","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Haig, Alexander M., Jr."],"prevCode":"013-005","nextCode":"013-007","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.73,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":1.75,"end":2.51,"text":"General Hague, sir."},{"start":2.56,"end":2.79,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":4.02,"end":4.68,"text":"There you are."},{"start":5.02,"end":5.16,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":5.18,"end":6.84,"text":"You got your thing worked out with Sigler?"},{"start":7.44,"end":7.88,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":8.06,"end":9.26,"text":"Yeah, fine, fine."},{"start":9.96,"end":13.17,"text":"He's going to just..."},{"start":13.21,"end":16.45,"text":"I guess he's going to... Rogers is going to say something at noon."},{"start":16.51,"end":17.84,"text":"That's right, sir."},{"start":17.86,"end":19.22,"text":"I think that's probably the way to handle it."},{"start":19.38,"end":20.34,"text":"That's exactly right."},{"start":20.58,"end":22.54,"text":"And Ron will refer to that."},{"start":22.9,"end":25.57,"text":"And we're going over to the minimum."},{"start":25.67,"end":26.15,"text":"All right, fine."},{"start":26.49,"end":27.17,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Alexander Haig coordinated public messaging strategies regarding an upcoming statement by Secretary of State William P. Rogers. The two men confirmed that Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler would reference the Secretary’s noon announcement to ensure consistency across the administration’s communications. This exchange served to finalize the tactical handling of the announcement, with both parties agreeing to maintain a minimalist approach in their public remarks.","topics":["Public relations","William P. Rogers","Ronald Ziegler","Messaging strategy","Administration coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:42:35.827Z"},"topicSlugs":["public-relations","william-p-rogers","ronald-ziegler","messaging-strategy","administration-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":29,"audioFiles":[{"file":"013-006.mp3","bytes":685870,"durationSec":28.5,"bitrate":192510,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.041Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:36.401Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/013-006.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/013-006","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/13/conversation-013-006","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}