{"conversationCode":"019-121","tapeNumber":19,"conversationNumber":121,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-019-121","startDateTime":"1972-01-26T21:47:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-26T21:48:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Jan-1972","startTime":"4:47 PM","endDate":"26-Jan-1972","endTime":"4:48 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Flanigan, Peter M.;","description":"On January 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Peter M. Flanigan talked on the telephone from 4:47 pm to 4:48 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 019-121 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. 19-121\n\nDate: January 26, 1972\nTime: 4:47 pm - 4:48 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Peter M. Flanigan.\n\n[See Conversation No. 318-7D]\n\n     Appointments\n         -Marina Von N. Whitman’s children\n              -Schools\n                   -Sidwell Friends\n                   -Landon\n                   -National Cathedral School\n                        -Herbert Stein\n                   -Landon\n                        -William P. Rogers\n                              -Unnamed headmaster","filename":["019-121.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Flanigan, Peter M."],"prevCode":"019-120","nextCode":"019-122","transcript":[{"start":1.4,"end":2.36,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":2.44,"end":3.68,"text":"Did you get the kids into Friends?"},{"start":4.6,"end":7.08,"text":"Got one of them into Friends and think the other's getting into Landon."},{"start":7.84,"end":8.79,"text":"Landon's a great school."},{"start":8.87,"end":9.16,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":9.41,"end":17.93,"text":"And she apparently wants him into Landon, and then I told Stein to tell her that if that didn't work out, I was confident we could get him into the Cathedral complex."},{"start":17.99,"end":19.5,"text":"Cathedral, which is also good."},{"start":19.64,"end":20.04,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":20.32,"end":21.98,"text":"So I think we're going to make that work."},{"start":22.04,"end":25.22,"text":"Bill had already called and had leaned on the headmaster."},{"start":25.4,"end":26.76,"text":"Bill Rogers had already called."},{"start":26.86,"end":27.24,"text":"He had."},{"start":28.04,"end":28.28,"text":"Good."},{"start":28.42,"end":28.7,"text":"He did."},{"start":28.74,"end":29.16,"text":"Well, good."},{"start":29.46,"end":29.79,"text":"Good."},{"start":30.24,"end":31.27,"text":"But that's good, Pete."},{"start":31.29,"end":32.11,"text":"Well, you follow through."},{"start":32.15,"end":32.66,"text":"We want her."},{"start":33.12,"end":34.77,"text":"I most surely will, and I agree."},{"start":35.01,"end":35.31,"text":"All right."},{"start":35.76,"end":36.91,"text":"Particularly because she's pretty."},{"start":37.61,"end":38.98,"text":"Yes, and in this form."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Peter Flanigan discussed the status of school enrollment efforts for the children of Marina von N. Whitman, a priority appointment for the administration. They confirmed that one child was accepted at Sidwell Friends while the other was pending at Landon, with backup plans in place for the National Cathedral School. The conversation highlighted the coordinated intervention of administration officials, including Secretary of State William P. Rogers, to secure these placements and ensure Whitman's successful recruitment.","topics":["Marina von N. Whitman","school admissions","personnel recruitment","William P. Rogers","Landon School","Sidwell Friends"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:46:09.638Z"},"topicSlugs":["marina-von-n-whitman","school-admissions","personnel-recruitment","william-p-rogers","landon-school","sidwell-friends"],"audioDurationSec":39,"audioFiles":[{"file":"019-121.mp3","bytes":936018,"durationSec":38.93,"bitrate":192339,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:24.938Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/019-121.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/019-121","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/19/conversation-019-121","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}