{"conversationCode":"019-096","tapeNumber":19,"conversationNumber":96,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-019-096","startDateTime":"1972-01-26T15:42:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-26T15:43:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Jan-1972","startTime":"10:42 AM","endDate":"26-Jan-1972","endTime":"10:43 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;","description":"On January 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 10:42 am to 10:43 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-096 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. 19-96\n\nDate: January 26, 1972\nTime: 10:42 am - 10:43 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.\n\n[See Conversation No. 656-10E]\n\n     The President's schedule\n          -The Prime Minister of the Netherlands\n               -J. William Middendorf, II","filename":["019-096.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Haig, Alexander M., Jr."],"prevCode":"019-095","nextCode":"019-097","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":4.74,"text":"Yeah, look, have Mittendorf sit in with this Prime Minister."},{"start":4.78,"end":5.68,"text":"Is there any reason he can't?"},{"start":6.55,"end":8.97,"text":"Otherwise, I've got to waste a half hour talking to him afterwards."},{"start":9.49,"end":10.5,"text":"No, I think..."},{"start":10.52,"end":11.56,"text":"I mean, is there any reason?"},{"start":11.79,"end":32.92,"text":"not that i'm aware of sir yeah you know what i mean this guy really shouldn't be seeing even except he's a dutchman that's right jesus christ i mean it's a pure social call you know to crap around about some of the stuff of that but god damn it our ambassador sits in all right fine and it isn't the kind of private talk i usually have the ambassador sits in good and then i and then tell me i'm sorry but i'm tied up"},{"start":32.9,"end":34.03,"text":"Right afterwards, see?"},{"start":34.39,"end":34.61,"text":"Right."},{"start":35.27,"end":42.29,"text":"See, because they have him on now for a half-hour meeting after the prime minister, and I just haven't got that much time to spend on Holland today."},{"start":42.31,"end":42.9,"text":"Good, Mr. President."},{"start":42.91,"end":43.94,"text":"Yeah, so, okay."},{"start":44.3,"end":44.5,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directs Alexander Haig to have Ambassador J. William Middendorf II join his upcoming meeting with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands to minimize the time commitment required from the President. By including the Ambassador, Nixon seeks to characterize the visit as a social call and create a scheduling buffer that allows him to excuse himself afterward. This arrangement serves to streamline the President's schedule by avoiding a planned individual follow-up session with the Ambassador.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","Netherlands","J. William Middendorf II","Alexander Haig","Diplomacy"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:43:51.000Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","netherlands","j-william-middendorf-ii","alexander-haig","diplomacy"],"audioDurationSec":45,"audioFiles":[{"file":"019-096.mp3","bytes":1081468,"durationSec":44.99,"bitrate":192325,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/019-096.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-096","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/19/conversation-019-096","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}