{"conversationCode":"022-006","tapeNumber":22,"conversationNumber":6,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-022-006","startDateTime":"1972-03-23T22:33:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-23T22:34:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Mar-1972","startTime":"5:33 PM","endDate":"23-Mar-1972","endTime":"5:34 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;","description":"On March 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Ronald L. Ziegler, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. talked on the telephone from 5:33 pm to 5:34 pm. 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Haig, Jr.\n\n[End of conferral]\n\n                 -ITT statement\n                 -Instructions\n                 -Salvador Allende Gossens\n           -Latin American and Chile\n                 -The President’s previous comments","filename":["022-006.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:08:23","tapeEnd":"00:09:32","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Ziegler, Ronald L.","Haig, Alexander M., Jr."],"prevCode":"022-005","nextCode":"022-007","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":2.57,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":2.67,"end":7.56,"text":"Have you said anything, Ron, with regard to the ITT in Chile?"},{"start":8.8,"end":11.06,"text":"The State Department dealt with that today."},{"start":11.28,"end":11.76,"text":"Oh, they did?"},{"start":11.8,"end":12.12,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":12.14,"end":12.62,"text":"What did they do?"},{"start":12.66,"end":14.71,"text":"Deny it?"},{"start":14.79,"end":21.51,"text":"They denied it, but they were cautious on how they dealt with the Corey statement because they were afraid that might backfire."},{"start":21.95,"end":22.05,"text":"Why?"},{"start":22.07,"end":22.89,"text":"What did Corey say?"},{"start":22.91,"end":29.92,"text":"Well, Corey said that he had received instructions to do anything short of a..."},{"start":30.3,"end":33.81,"text":"Dominican-type alleged to have said that."},{"start":33.83,"end":35.15,"text":"Or he did?"},{"start":35.29,"end":35.73,"text":"Right."},{"start":36.13,"end":36.95,"text":"How'd that get out?"},{"start":36.97,"end":37.67,"text":"He put that out?"},{"start":37.85,"end":40.54,"text":"Well, Anderson received that from some source."},{"start":40.64,"end":42,"text":"Al Haig is sitting with me now."},{"start":42.42,"end":42.84,"text":"Oh, yeah."},{"start":44.56,"end":48.36,"text":"It was a report contained in an IT&T thing."},{"start":48.4,"end":48.66,"text":"Oh, yeah."},{"start":48.7,"end":49.06,"text":"He was."},{"start":49.12,"end":50.19,"text":"He was instructed to."},{"start":50.25,"end":52.49,"text":"Well, but I hope that he just failed."},{"start":52.77,"end":54.21,"text":"Son of a bitch, that's his main problem."},{"start":54.25,"end":57.25,"text":"He should have kept all the other of them getting in."},{"start":57.27,"end":57.49,"text":"Well,"},{"start":57.76,"end":66.63,"text":"In any event, State has denied it today, and they referred to your comments about Latin America and Chile, and so you just refer to that on that one."},{"start":66.65,"end":67.23,"text":"Fine, okay."},{"start":67.25,"end":67.99,"text":"Yes, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with Ronald Ziegler and Alexander Haig regarding the administration's public response to allegations of ITT involvement in Chilean politics. The discussion centered on a recent State Department denial concerning controversial statements attributed to Ambassador Edward M. Korry, which had been leaked by columnist Jack Anderson. Nixon and his aides agreed to deflect further inquiries by referencing the President’s previously stated policy positions on Latin America and Chile.","topics":["ITT","Chile","Edward M. Korry","Salvador Allende","State Department","Jack Anderson","Foreign Policy"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T02:17:37.000Z"},"topicSlugs":["itt","chile","edward-m-korry","salvador-allende","state-department","jack-anderson","foreign-policy"],"audioDurationSec":68,"audioFiles":[{"file":"022-006.mp3","bytes":1641324,"durationSec":68.32,"bitrate":192200,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.521Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/022-006.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-006","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/22/conversation-022-006","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}