{"conversationCode":"019-012","tapeNumber":19,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-019-012","startDateTime":"1972-01-19T20:43:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-19T20:44:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Jan-1972","startTime":"3:43 PM","endDate":"19-Jan-1972","endTime":"3:44 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Safire, William L.;","description":"On January 19, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and William L. Safire talked on the telephone from 3:43 pm to 3:44 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-012 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 19-12\n\nDate: January 19, 1972\nTime: 3:43 pm - 3:44 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with William L. Safire.\n\n[See Conversation No. 315-20]\n\n     Vietnam speech preparation\n          -Safire's schedule\n                -William P. Rogers\n          -The President's schedule\n                -State of the Union speech\n                -Executive Office Building [EOB]\n          -Manolo Sanchez","filename":["019-012.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Safire, William L."],"prevCode":"019-011","nextCode":"019-013","transcript":[{"start":1.2,"end":21.62,"text":"hello mr sapphire yeah hello mr president how are you getting along i'm all set uh yeah i've got the next draft and uh i have a date with bill rogers tomorrow morning fine uh if you want to look at this it's uh it's here yeah okay i'll tell you i'm uh"},{"start":22.73,"end":27.01,"text":"I'm working on the State of the Union now, but could you send it over?"},{"start":27.34,"end":40.07,"text":"I'm in the EOB, and I'll have it here, and if I get a, you know, between drafts or something, I just might take a look and then call you back and might get a little work done today on it, too."},{"start":40.41,"end":41.04,"text":"Okay, great."},{"start":41.06,"end":42.3,"text":"Could you just send it by now?"},{"start":42.54,"end":42.74,"text":"Right."},{"start":43.62,"end":44.52,"text":"Have them leave it with Manolo."},{"start":44.78,"end":45.24,"text":"Right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and speechwriter William Safire coordinated the delivery of a new draft for an upcoming Vietnam-related speech. Safire confirmed his scheduled meeting with Secretary of State William P. Rogers, while the President requested the draft be delivered to his office in the Executive Office Building via his valet, Manolo Sanchez. The President intended to review the document in between his work on the State of the Union address.","topics":["Vietnam speech","State of the Union","William P. Rogers","Speechwriting","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:36:05.290Z"},"topicSlugs":["vietnam-speech","state-of-the-union","william-p-rogers","speechwriting","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":47,"audioFiles":[{"file":"019-012.mp3","bytes":1132250,"durationSec":47.12,"bitrate":192248,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/019-012.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/19/conversation-019-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}