{"conversationCode":"020-076","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":76,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-076","startDateTime":"1972-02-09T13:31:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-09T13:32:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Feb-1972","startTime":"8:31 AM","endDate":"9-Feb-1972","endTime":"8:32 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; Erleborn, John N.;","description":"On February 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and John N. Erleborn talked on the telephone from 8:31 am to 8:32 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-076 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. 20-76\n\nDate: February 9, 1972\nTime: 8:31 am - 8:32 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President met with Rose Mary Woods [?]\n\n     The President’s schedule\n\nThe President talked with John N. Erlenborn\n\n[See Conversation No. 668-5]\n\n     Birthday greetings\n          -William E. Timmons\n          -Coincidental birthdays\n                -John T. Myers and John M. Zwach\n          -Seniority","filename":["020-076.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:24:56","tapeEnd":"02:25:57","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary","Erleborn, John N."],"prevCode":"020-075","nextCode":"020-077","transcript":[{"start":1.62,"end":5.46,"text":"I may go about 4 o'clock."},{"start":5.52,"end":5.8,"text":"Hello."},{"start":6.46,"end":8.17,"text":"Mr. President, I have Congressman Erlenborn."},{"start":8.69,"end":9.53,"text":"Yeah, hello."},{"start":10.07,"end":10.57,"text":"Hi, John."},{"start":11.19,"end":19.32,"text":"I'm just checking with my congressional people, Timmons et al., and I find out that you just had a birthday yesterday."},{"start":19.6,"end":20.56,"text":"Right."},{"start":21.1,"end":23.81,"text":"And incidentally, it's a very interesting little coincidence."},{"start":23.83,"end":29.09,"text":"I don't know whether you know it, but you share the birthday with two other Republicans."},{"start":29.55,"end":30.69,"text":"They're both named John."},{"start":31.05,"end":32.25,"text":"John Myers is one."},{"start":32.31,"end":33.17,"text":"And John's Rock."},{"start":33.57,"end":34.61,"text":"Oh, I didn't realize, John."},{"start":34.63,"end":35.31,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":35.41,"end":39.73,"text":"So your mothers all just had sort of that telepathy, and they said, well, John's a good name."},{"start":40.13,"end":40.41,"text":"Right."},{"start":40.8,"end":41.96,"text":"Fourth Book of the Gospel."},{"start":42.56,"end":49.14,"text":"Well, anyway, congratulations, and I'm glad you're in good shape and young enough to be around for 20 more years."},{"start":49.62,"end":53.37,"text":"I'm looking forward to that seniority that I can gain in that time."},{"start":53.39,"end":56.77,"text":"Yeah, you get the seniority, and I'm sure you're going to make it."},{"start":56.85,"end":57.21,"text":"Good luck."},{"start":57.41,"end":58.03,"text":"Thank you very much."},{"start":58.07,"end":58.31,"text":"Bye."},{"start":58.53,"end":59.55,"text":"Bye."},{"start":59.53,"end":60.18,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and Congressman John N. Erlenborn engaged in a brief telephone conversation primarily to exchange birthday greetings. Erlenborn initiated the call to wish the President well following his recent birthday, noting the coincidental shared birth date of two other Republican congressmen. The exchange remained social and congratulatory in nature, focusing on the lighthearted trivia surrounding their birthdays and the prospect of Erlenborn's future congressional seniority.","topics":["Birthday greetings","Congressional relations","John N. Erlenborn","Political trivia"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:58:34.742Z"},"topicSlugs":["birthday-greetings","congressional-relations","john-n-erlenborn","political-trivia"],"audioDurationSec":61,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-076.mp3","bytes":1455124,"durationSec":60.57,"bitrate":192197,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.226Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-076.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-076","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-076","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}