{"conversationCode":"037-166","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":166,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-166","startDateTime":"1973-03-20T17:59:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-20T18:00:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Mar-1973","startTime":"12:59 PM","endDate":"20-Mar-1973","endTime":"1:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Dean, John W., III;","description":"On March 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and John W. Dean, III talked on the telephone from 12:59 pm to 1:00 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-166 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.4","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part IV","chronReleaseDate":"8-Dec-2010","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 37-166\n\nDate: March 20, 1973\nTime: 12:59 pm-1:00 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with John W. Dean III.\n\n[See Conversation No. 884-11]\n\n       Draft letter\n               -Richard A. Moore\n               -Timing of release\n               -President's schedule\n                      -Meeting with President","filename":["037-166.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Dean, John W., III"],"prevCode":"037-165","nextCode":"037-167","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.27,"text":"Oh, yes, sir."},{"start":1.93,"end":3.41,"text":"Oh, anything you want to take up?"},{"start":4.39,"end":9.86,"text":"Yeah, I've got this draft letter, and you might want to read it, to react to it."},{"start":10.46,"end":13.32,"text":"We're just going to continue to stomp and hone it until it's ready to go."},{"start":13.36,"end":15.45,"text":"It's 90% there now."},{"start":15.66,"end":17.45,"text":"Well, why don't you wait until you're through, then?"},{"start":17.91,"end":19.33,"text":"If you're not ready to... All right."},{"start":19.49,"end":23.49,"text":"When you get ready, you and Moore want to bring it in this afternoon sometime."},{"start":23.61,"end":23.91,"text":"All right, sir."},{"start":23.93,"end":26.2,"text":"You don't want to send it today, then, or do you plan to send it?"},{"start":26.21,"end":28.48,"text":"I think it ought to go out sometime this afternoon, yes, sir."},{"start":29.28,"end":30.04,"text":"Well..."},{"start":30.02,"end":32.86,"text":"Well, as soon as you think it's worth discussing, you come in."},{"start":33.1,"end":38.75,"text":"Otherwise, I think what will happen is the committee may... What time is there?"},{"start":39.39,"end":40.93,"text":"Have you got Dick Moore there, too?"},{"start":40.95,"end":41.97,"text":"Are you working on it?"},{"start":42.39,"end":50.56,"text":"He just stepped down to make some changes in his office, and I'd say we could be ready in 30 minutes or so, if it's good with your schedule, sir."},{"start":51.12,"end":52.27,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":52.29,"end":53.11,"text":"Sure, sure."},{"start":53.41,"end":53.93,"text":"All right."},{"start":54.57,"end":55.21,"text":"Shall we say 1.30?"},{"start":56.29,"end":56.51,"text":"Good."},{"start":56.53,"end":57.15,"text":"1.30."},{"start":57.17,"end":57.71,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and John W. Dean III coordinate a meeting to review a nearly finalized draft letter prepared with the assistance of Richard A. Moore. They discuss the urgency of the document's release, with Dean suggesting it should be sent that afternoon. Ultimately, they agree to meet at 1:30 pm to discuss the final version of the text.","topics":["Watergate","White House operations","Richard A. Moore","legal correspondence","administrative coordination"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:23:49.116Z"},"topicSlugs":["watergate","white-house-operations","richard-a-moore","legal-correspondence","administrative-coordination"],"audioDurationSec":64,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-166.mp3","bytes":452608,"durationSec":64.45,"bitrate":56178,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-166.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-166","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-166","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}