{"conversationCode":"029-008","tapeNumber":29,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-029-008","startDateTime":"1972-08-03T20:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-08-03T20:45:00.000Z","startDate":"3-Aug-1972","startTime":"4:44 PM","endDate":"3-Aug-1972","endTime":"4:45 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.;","description":"On August 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman talked on the telephone from 4:44 pm to 4:45 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 029-008 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. 29-8\n\nDate: August 3, 1972\nTime: 4:44 pm - 4:45 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nJohn D. Ehrlichman talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 353-21B]\n\n     The President’s schedule\n          -Executive Office Building [EOB]\n          -Forthcoming meeting with Ehrlichman\n                -Timing","filename":["029-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Ehrlichman, John D."],"prevCode":"029-007","nextCode":"029-009","transcript":[{"start":2.5,"end":22.07,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and John Ehrlichman spoke briefly to coordinate their upcoming schedule. The primary focus of the discussion was establishing the timing for a future meeting at the Executive Office Building. No substantive policy decisions were made during this brief administrative check-in.","topics":["Presidential scheduling","Executive Office Building","John Ehrlichman","White House administration"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T03:35:25.548Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-scheduling","executive-office-building","john-ehrlichman","white-house-administration"],"audioDurationSec":22,"audioFiles":[{"file":"029-008.mp3","bytes":530389,"durationSec":22.03,"bitrate":192635,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:28.083Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/029-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/029-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/29/conversation-029-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}