{"conversationCode":"021-044","tapeNumber":21,"conversationNumber":44,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-021-044","startDateTime":"1972-03-10T20:23:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-10T20:53:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Mar-1972","startTime":"3:23 PM","endDate":"10-Mar-1972","endTime":"3:53 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Ehrlichman, John D.; White House operator; Morgan, Edward L.;","description":"On March 10, 1972, John D. Ehrlichman, White House operator, and Edward L. Morgan talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:23 pm and 3:53 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 021-044 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. 21-44\n\nDate: March 10, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 3:23 pm and 3:53 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nJohn D. Ehrlichman talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 682-9C]\n\n     Request for a call to Edward L. Morgan\n\nEhrlichman talked with Edward Morgan\n\n[See Conversation No. 682-9D]\n\n     Ehrlichman’s location\n\n     Speech draft\n          -Raymond K. Price, Jr.\n          -The President","filename":["021-044.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:27:03","tapeEnd":"01:27:59","participantsList":["Ehrlichman, John D.","White House operator","Morgan, Edward L."],"prevCode":"021-043","nextCode":"021-045","transcript":[{"start":0.25,"end":2.25,"text":"This is John Ehrlichman."},{"start":2.33,"end":3.28,"text":"Give me Ed Morgan, please."},{"start":3.3,"end":6.2,"text":"Surely."},{"start":13.76,"end":15.6,"text":"Mr. Morgan, is that..."},{"start":15.62,"end":16.54,"text":"This is John Ehrlichman."},{"start":16.56,"end":16.9,"text":"Is he there?"},{"start":17.88,"end":18.24,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":18.28,"end":18.97,"text":"He's on the phone."},{"start":18.99,"end":20.29,"text":"Will you hold just a second, please?"},{"start":20.31,"end":21.33,"text":"Yeah, please."},{"start":29.21,"end":29.61,"text":"Hello."},{"start":29.77,"end":29.93,"text":"Hi."},{"start":30.47,"end":31.61,"text":"I'm with the president."},{"start":31.79,"end":36.44,"text":"He's going to need Price's second draft as early this weekend as possible."},{"start":36.72,"end":36.94,"text":"All right."},{"start":37.24,"end":42.49,"text":"It might be that what you want to do is take that first draft and just make some changes and send it up so he can start to work on it."},{"start":42.95,"end":43.15,"text":"All right."},{"start":43.17,"end":43.51,"text":"Will you do that?"},{"start":43.53,"end":45.59,"text":"Will you make the changes or him make the changes?"},{"start":45.62,"end":46.56,"text":"Well, it's up to you."},{"start":48.36,"end":49.36,"text":"I'll leave it to him."},{"start":49.54,"end":53.13,"text":"Let's get something up to him as soon as possible, though, so that he can start to work on it."},{"start":54.17,"end":54.37,"text":"All right."},{"start":54.39,"end":54.49,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"John D. Ehrlichman contacted Edward L. Morgan to secure an expedited timeline for a presidential speech draft. Ehrlichman, speaking on behalf of the President, instructed Morgan to prioritize the delivery of Raymond K. Price, Jr.'s second draft over the weekend to allow for early review. The pair agreed that Morgan would either modify the initial draft or finalize the updated version to ensure the President could begin his work immediately.","topics":["Speechwriting","Raymond K. Price, Jr.","Presidential communications","Administrative procedures"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:08:52.074Z"},"topicSlugs":["speechwriting","raymond-k-price-jr","presidential-communications","administrative-procedures"],"audioDurationSec":54,"audioFiles":[{"file":"021-044.mp3","bytes":1308420,"durationSec":54.46,"bitrate":192191,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/021-044.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/021-044","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/21/conversation-021-044","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}