{"conversationCode":"035-055","tapeNumber":35,"conversationNumber":55,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-035-055","startDateTime":"1973-01-02T15:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-02T15:21:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Jan-1973","startTime":"10:20 AM","endDate":"2-Jan-1973","endTime":"10:21 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On January 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone from 10:20 am to 10:21 am. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 035-055 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. 35-55\n\nDate: January 2, 1973\nTime: 10:20 am – 10:21 am\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Stephen B. Bull.\n\n       Roberto Clemente’s death\n            -Presidential statement\n                  -Audio tape\n                        -Television [TV]\n                        -Radio\n                        -Timing\n\f                                                -54-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["035-055.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"035-054","nextCode":"035-056","transcript":[{"start":0.62,"end":1.22,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":1.24,"end":1.54,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":1.86,"end":8.52,"text":"I'll do a radio, I'll do a audio tape of that Clemente statement, send it over, and send over the audio thing."},{"start":8.94,"end":9.74,"text":"All right, sir, fine."},{"start":9.76,"end":13.83,"text":"Not for television, you know, just an audio that you can give out to the radio and so forth and so on, okay?"},{"start":13.85,"end":15.28,"text":"You're ready to do it any time then, sir?"},{"start":15.3,"end":16.54,"text":"Yeah, as soon as it's over here."},{"start":16.68,"end":17.02,"text":"Fine, sir."},{"start":17.04,"end":17.48,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directed his aide, Stephen B. Bull, to facilitate the recording and distribution of a presidential statement regarding the death of baseball icon Roberto Clemente. Nixon specified that the message should be produced as an audio tape intended for radio broadcast rather than television. The President instructed Bull to ensure the distribution occurred promptly once the recording was completed at the White House.","topics":["Roberto Clemente","Presidential statement","Radio broadcasting","Public relations","Stephen B. Bull"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T04:45:42.872Z"},"topicSlugs":["roberto-clemente","presidential-statement","radio-broadcasting","public-relations","stephen-b-bull"],"audioDurationSec":24,"audioFiles":[{"file":"035-055.mp3","bytes":570481,"durationSec":23.64,"bitrate":193056,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:29.541Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:41.449Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/035-055.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/035-055","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/35/conversation-035-055","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}