{"conversationCode":"034-049","tapeNumber":34,"conversationNumber":49,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-034-049","startDateTime":"1972-12-12T00:49:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-12T00:50:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Dec-1972","startTime":"7:49 PM","endDate":"11-Dec-1972","endTime":"7:50 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.;","description":"On December 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Ronald L. Ziegler talked on the telephone from 7:49 pm to 7:50 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 034-049 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.2","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part II","chronReleaseDate":"2-Dec-2008","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 34-49\n\nDate: December 11, 1972\nTime: 7:49 pm - 7:50 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Ronald L. Ziegler.\n\n       Press relations\n             -Constance M. (Cornell) (“Connie”) Stuart\n             -Washington Post reporters\n                    -Christmas tree\n                    -Ziegler’s forthcoming call to Stuart","filename":["034-049.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Ziegler, Ronald L."],"prevCode":"034-048","nextCode":"034-050","transcript":[{"start":0.59,"end":1.77,"text":"Hello."},{"start":2.03,"end":2.33,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":2.91,"end":3.37,"text":"Hi, Ron."},{"start":3.97,"end":9.42,"text":"I don't want to bother you, but I just want to be sure you got ahold of Connie and got her straightened out for tomorrow."},{"start":10.06,"end":15.57,"text":"Today, there were four people from the Washington Post looking at the Christmas tree."},{"start":15.73,"end":22.66,"text":"I had given an order, which you may recall quite clearly, that nobody in the Washington Post was ever to be in this house again."},{"start":23.08,"end":32.05,"text":"And, you know, I want to enforce, I want you to call Connie, call me back, ask her why they were there, and tell her if there's ever anybody that's there, her ass is out in five minutes."},{"start":32.09,"end":32.51,"text":"Okay?"},{"start":32.63,"end":33.15,"text":"Okay, fine."},{"start":33.19,"end":39.51,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon expressed intense frustration to Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler regarding the presence of Washington Post reporters at the White House Christmas tree display. Reasserting a previous ban on the newspaper's staff, the President ordered Ziegler to contact Connie Stuart to demand an explanation for the breach and to threaten her with immediate termination should such an unauthorized access occur again. Ziegler was instructed to verify the situation and report back to the President promptly.","topics":["Richard M. Nixon","Ronald L. Ziegler","Washington Post","Press relations","White House personnel","Media access"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:30:52.644Z"},"topicSlugs":["richard-m-nixon","ronald-l-ziegler","washington-post","press-relations","white-house-personnel","media-access"],"audioDurationSec":44,"audioFiles":[{"file":"034-049.mp3","bytes":1068529,"durationSec":44.39,"bitrate":192585,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/034-049.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/034-049","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/34/conversation-034-049","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}