{"conversationCode":"024-167","tapeNumber":24,"conversationNumber":167,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-024-167","startDateTime":"1972-05-20T12:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-20T12:36:00.000Z","startDate":"20-May-1972","startTime":"8:35 AM","endDate":"20-May-1972","endTime":"8:36 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Acker, Marjorie P.;","description":"On May 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Marjorie P. Acker talked on the telephone from 8:35 am to 8:36 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 024-167 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. 24-167\n\nDate: May 20, 1972\nTime: 8:35 am - 8:36 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Marjorie P. Acker.\n\n     The President's memorandum to Alexander M. Haig, Jr.\n          -Instructions\n                -Barry M. Goldwater\n                -Buckley [William or James?]\n                -Thomas H. Moorer\n                -[David] Kenneth Rush\n                -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew\n                -Edward Teller","filename":["024-167.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:20:36","tapeEnd":"04:21:16","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Acker, Marjorie P."],"prevCode":"024-166","nextCode":"024-168","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":3.34,"text":"Mark, hello."},{"start":3.36,"end":20.08,"text":"I set a memorandum, Mark, at one point where I'm talking about the take about the people that we've talked about."},{"start":20.1,"end":23.49,"text":"Tell them, just put it in paragraphs, the effect of particularly important things, the other four, and the Russian on the talk, the egg, getting in the boat all the way."},{"start":24.5,"end":35.43,"text":"And also, it would be very helpful if we could get Teller to come back and get him a book."},{"start":35.45,"end":35.89,"text":"Teller's a great book."},{"start":35.91,"end":36.63,"text":"Okay."},{"start":36.65,"end":36.87,"text":"Okay, Mark."},{"start":36.89,"end":37.15,"text":"Thanks a lot."},{"start":37.17,"end":37.61,"text":"Okay, have a good day."},{"start":37.63,"end":37.84,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":37.85,"end":38.26,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructs Marjorie P. Acker to organize and formalize a memorandum regarding key administration figures and advisors, including Barry Goldwater, Thomas Moorer, Kenneth Rush, Spiro Agnew, and Edward Teller. The President emphasizes highlighting the importance of these individuals' roles and their alignment with administration goals. Additionally, Nixon requests that efforts be made to bring physicist Edward Teller back for further consultation.","topics":["White House administration","Edward Teller","Memorandum drafting","Political strategy","Presidential appointments"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:02:18.601Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-administration","edward-teller","memorandum-drafting","political-strategy","presidential-appointments"],"audioDurationSec":565,"audioFiles":[{"file":"024-167.mp3","bytes":13553788,"durationSec":564.67,"bitrate":192023,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.841Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/024-167.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/024-167","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/24/conversation-024-167","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}