{"conversationCode":"020-077","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":77,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-077","startDateTime":"1972-02-09T13:34:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-09T13:35:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Feb-1972","startTime":"8:34 AM","endDate":"9-Feb-1972","endTime":"8:35 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Myers, John T.;","description":"On February 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and John T. Myers talked on the telephone from 8:34 am to 8:35 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 020-077 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. 20-77\n\nDate: February 9, 1972\nTime: 8:34 am - 8:35 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with John T. Myers.\n\n[See Conversation No. 668-6]\n\n     Birthday greetings\n          -Age\n\n     Possibility of becoming Speaker of the House\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 04/30/2019.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[020-077-w002]\n[Duration: 16s]\n\n       Possibility of becoming Speaker of the House\n              -Prospects for Republican Party victory in 1972\n\n**********************************************************************","filename":["020-077.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:25:57","tapeEnd":"02:26:40","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Myers, John T."],"prevCode":"020-076","nextCode":"020-078","transcript":[{"start":0.72,"end":2.51,"text":"Congressman Myers, sir."},{"start":3.69,"end":4.09,"text":"Good morning."},{"start":4.87,"end":5.13,"text":"Hi, John."},{"start":5.57,"end":12.22,"text":"I just thought you should know that I noted from my congressional people that you had a birthday yesterday."},{"start":12.56,"end":17.67,"text":"Well, you know, times when I'm not here, I just can't believe you could be 45 years of age."},{"start":17.89,"end":18.31,"text":"I can't."},{"start":18.33,"end":19.27,"text":"You don't hate to think about it."},{"start":19.31,"end":20.76,"text":"Yeah, don't you hate to think about it?"},{"start":20.78,"end":24.96,"text":"That gives you about 25, 30 more years in the Congress, and by that time, who knows, you might be Speaker."},{"start":26.08,"end":27.19,"text":"Yeah."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Representative John T. Myers engaged in a brief, informal telephone conversation initiated by Myers to extend birthday wishes to the President. During the exchange, the two men discussed the President's age and speculated about the long-term political career of the Congressman. The dialogue concluded with a lighthearted remark regarding the potential for Myers to eventually become Speaker of the House.","topics":["Birthday greetings","John T. Myers","Congress","Speaker of the House","1972 election"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T01:58:40.526Z"},"topicSlugs":["birthday-greetings","john-t-myers","congress","speaker-of-the-house","1972-election"],"audioDurationSec":43,"audioFiles":[{"file":"020-077.mp3","bytes":1033194,"durationSec":42.98,"bitrate":192324,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:25.226Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/020-077.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/020-077","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/20/conversation-020-077","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}