{"conversationCode":"025-052","tapeNumber":25,"conversationNumber":52,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-025-052","startDateTime":"1972-06-12T18:43:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-06-12T18:45:00.000Z","startDate":"12-Jun-1972","startTime":"2:43 PM","endDate":"12-Jun-1972","endTime":"2:45 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Rather, Dan;","description":"On June 12, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Dan Rather talked on the telephone from 2:43 pm to 2:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 025-052 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. 25-52\n\nDate: June 12, 1972\nTime: 2:43-2:45 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Dan Rather.\n\n[See Conversation No. 343-10]\n\n     Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] broadcast of Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding\n         -President's appreciation\n         -President's schedule\n               -Sequoia\n         -Tricia Nixon Cox","filename":["025-052.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:18:31","tapeEnd":"02:20:45","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Rather, Dan"],"prevCode":"025-051","nextCode":"025-053","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":22.22,"text":"Hello."},{"start":22.24,"end":22.36,"text":"Hello."},{"start":22.38,"end":22.62,"text":"How are you?"},{"start":22.64,"end":24.05,"text":"Well, I thought you needed to know that this is actually a picture."},{"start":24.07,"end":24.35,"text":"But I'm sorry."},{"start":24.37,"end":24.57,"text":"I'm sorry."},{"start":24.59,"end":24.79,"text":"I'm sorry."},{"start":24.81,"end":25.01,"text":"I'm sorry."},{"start":25.03,"end":25.23,"text":"I'm sorry."},{"start":25.83,"end":51.17,"text":"Yeah, I saw you."},{"start":51.19,"end":51.27,"text":"Yes."},{"start":51.87,"end":76.8,"text":"Ja, ja, ja, ja, ja, ja."},{"start":77.76,"end":104.54,"text":"... ... ... ... ... ... ..."},{"start":105.13,"end":131.52,"text":"... ... ... ... ... ..."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated this brief telephone call with CBS correspondent Dan Rather to express his appreciation for the network's broadcast coverage of Tricia Nixon Cox's wedding. The conversation touched upon the President's personal schedule, specifically his activities aboard the presidential yacht, the Sequoia. The exchange served primarily as a professional courtesy between the President and the media figure.","topics":["Tricia Nixon Cox","CBS","Dan Rather","media relations","presidential schedule","Sequoia"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:07:12.852Z"},"topicSlugs":["tricia-nixon-cox","cbs","dan-rather","media-relations","presidential-schedule","sequoia"],"audioDurationSec":134,"audioFiles":[{"file":"025-052.mp3","bytes":3224972,"durationSec":134.3,"bitrate":192099,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.841Z","transcriptGapSeconds":126,"transcriptGapShare":0.94,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/025-052.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/025-052","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/25/conversation-025-052","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}