{"conversationCode":"027-063","tapeNumber":27,"conversationNumber":63,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-027-063","startDateTime":"1972-07-25T21:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-07-25T21:57:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Jul-1972","startTime":"5:55 PM","endDate":"25-Jul-1972","endTime":"5:57 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\"); Dole, Robert J.;","description":"On July 25, 1972, H. R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman and Robert J. Dole talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 5:55 pm and 5:57 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 027-063 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 27-63\n\nDate: July 25, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 5:55 pm and 5:57 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nH. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with Robert J. Dole.\n\n[See Conversation No. 753-8G]\n\n     Thomas F. Eagleton\n         -Announcement of health problems\n         -Campaign practices\n               -The President's instructions\n\n*****************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal returnable]\n[Duration: 51s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n*****************************************************************","filename":["027-063.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\")","Dole, Robert J."],"prevCode":"027-062","nextCode":"027-064","transcript":[{"start":0.71,"end":2.57,"text":"Senator Dell."},{"start":2.59,"end":2.91,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":4.96,"end":5.24,"text":"Hello."},{"start":5.76,"end":6,"text":"Bob."},{"start":6.4,"end":6.68,"text":"Hi, Bob."},{"start":6.7,"end":7.06,"text":"How are you?"},{"start":7.14,"end":7.64,"text":"Pretty good."},{"start":7.8,"end":9.91,"text":"You've seen the Eagleton story, I assume."},{"start":9.97,"end":10.61,"text":"Yeah, right."},{"start":10.87,"end":17.03,"text":"President, just wanted to be sure that all of our troops have the instruction from the President that..."},{"start":17.61,"end":21.84,"text":"He has instructed everybody that we make no comment on any personal matter."},{"start":22.1,"end":35.97,"text":"Right, that was my... Well, I'm sure it would be, but he thought if you had the opportunity to say that, the President has instructed us that in any situation of this sort, he has always had the rule of no comment on any personal matter."},{"start":36.03,"end":36.45,"text":"Right."},{"start":36.95,"end":41.64,"text":"Because we don't want to get, you know, this one will take care of itself."},{"start":41.96,"end":42.88,"text":"Yeah, I think it will."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"H. R. Haldeman and Senator Robert Dole coordinated the administration's public response to the recent disclosure of Thomas F. Eagleton’s health issues. Haldeman relayed President Nixon’s explicit directive that all campaign staff and party officials maintain a policy of no comment regarding Eagleton’s personal situation. The participants agreed that silence was the optimal strategy, anticipating that the controversy would naturally resolve itself without Republican intervention.","topics":["Thomas F. Eagleton","1972 Presidential Campaign","Public Relations Strategy","White House Policy","Political Strategy"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:25:58.435Z"},"topicSlugs":["thomas-f-eagleton","1972-presidential-campaign","public-relations-strategy","white-house-policy","political-strategy"],"audioDurationSec":55,"audioFiles":[{"file":"027-063.mp3","bytes":1331617,"durationSec":55.43,"bitrate":192198,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.083Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/027-063.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/027-063","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/27/conversation-027-063","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}