{"conversationCode":"032-157","tapeNumber":32,"conversationNumber":157,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-032-157","startDateTime":"1972-11-03T00:02:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-11-03T00:04:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Nov-1972","startTime":"7:02 PM","endDate":"2-Nov-1972","endTime":"7:04 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Andrews, John K., Jr.;","description":"On November 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and John K. Andrews, Jr. talked on the telephone from 7:02 pm to 7:04 pm. 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Price, Jr.\n            -Speech on labor\n                -Labor Day\n                     -Purchased time\n            -Number of speeches\n            -Review by the President\n            -Number in series\n                -Release\n                     -John D. Ehrlichman\n            -Goals\n                -Andrews’s memorandum","filename":["032-157.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Andrews, John K., Jr."],"prevCode":"032-156","nextCode":"032-158","transcript":[{"start":1.57,"end":2.59,"text":"Hello."},{"start":2.61,"end":3.15,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":4.79,"end":9.3,"text":"One thing I had mentioned to Ray Price that I want to be sure that it's a small technical thing."},{"start":11.5,"end":17.19,"text":"We actually have 14 because we're including the Labor Day thing in the whole mix, you see."},{"start":18.01,"end":19.75,"text":"Oh, I hadn't been aware of that."},{"start":19.87,"end":23.1,"text":"See, Labor Day was not purchased time."},{"start":23.18,"end":25.28,"text":"It was a 15-minute speech, and it's on labor."},{"start":25.62,"end":26.26,"text":"Yes."},{"start":26.28,"end":28.23,"text":"So therefore, we had labor and the farm and the rest."},{"start":28.25,"end":29.11,"text":"So we have 14."},{"start":29.19,"end":29.55,"text":"It's like."},{"start":30.2,"end":32.85,"text":"points, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera."},{"start":32.87,"end":32.95,"text":"Yes."},{"start":32.97,"end":33.51,"text":"Other than 13."},{"start":33.53,"end":34.65,"text":"Yes, much."},{"start":34.67,"end":34.95,"text":"Okay."},{"start":34.97,"end":36.31,"text":"I haven't had a chance to read the speeches."},{"start":36.33,"end":40.02,"text":"I just read the cover note, and I just wanted to be sure that we all got it across."},{"start":40.08,"end":42.86,"text":"This is the 14th in a series, 14 speeches."},{"start":43.12,"end":43.58,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":44.1,"end":44.2,"text":"Okay."},{"start":44.23,"end":46.95,"text":"Chairman mentioned you were going to want to put out a collection of them later on."},{"start":47.89,"end":48.01,"text":"Right."},{"start":48.03,"end":50.4,"text":"But make it 14, including the Labor Day one, you see?"},{"start":50.45,"end":51.22,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":51.24,"end":52.82,"text":"Dignity of work and all that business."},{"start":53.34,"end":56.95,"text":"These ten goals will work out very well as a concluding speech."},{"start":57.37,"end":61.58,"text":"Well, that's what I saw from your memorandum, and I think it's just fine."},{"start":62.49,"end":65.11,"text":"Let's be sure we understand there are 14, not 13."},{"start":65.21,"end":65.64,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":65.92,"end":66.16,"text":"Okay?"},{"start":66.2,"end":66.9,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."},{"start":66.92,"end":67.64,"text":"Fine, fine, John."},{"start":67.72,"end":68.24,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with John K. Andrews, Jr. to clarify the total number of speeches in a planned series, ensuring that a previous address on labor is included to bring the final count to 14. The discussion emphasized maintaining accuracy in the series structure and documentation for a future collection of these speeches. Nixon further affirmed his approval of the speech goals outlined in Andrews's recent memorandum, specifically citing the importance of the dignity of work.","topics":["Speechwriting","Labor policy","White House communications","Political messaging","1972 election cycle"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:14:29.481Z"},"topicSlugs":["speechwriting","labor-policy","white-house-communications","political-messaging","1972-election-cycle"],"audioDurationSec":71,"audioFiles":[{"file":"032-157.mp3","bytes":1709034,"durationSec":71.15,"bitrate":192170,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:40.413Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/032-157.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/032-157","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/32/conversation-032-157","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). 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