{"conversationCode":"037-182","tapeNumber":37,"conversationNumber":182,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-037-182","startDateTime":"1973-03-21T01:07:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-21T01:08:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Mar-1973","startTime":"8:07 PM","endDate":"20-Mar-1973","endTime":"8:08 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Brennan, John V.;","description":"On March 20, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and John V. Brennan talked on the telephone from 8:07 pm to 8:08 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 037-182 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. 37-182\n\nDate: March 20, 1973\nTime: 8:07 pm-8:08 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nJohn V. (“Jack”) Brennan talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 422-13]\n\n       George P. Shultz's schedule\n             -Arrival at Andrews Air Force Base\n             -Meeting with President\n             -John D. Ehrlichman","filename":["037-182.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Brennan, John V."],"prevCode":"037-181","nextCode":"037-183","transcript":[{"start":0.54,"end":2.14,"text":"Hello."},{"start":2.18,"end":3.7,"text":"Major Brennan, thank you."},{"start":3.72,"end":7.76,"text":"Mr. President, Secretary Shultz will land at Andrews at 5 p.m. on Thursday evening."},{"start":8.75,"end":9.97,"text":"Fine."},{"start":9.99,"end":13.29,"text":"Which means we can get him down to the White House in five minutes from that traffic."},{"start":14.27,"end":16.75,"text":"I'd like for him to come in to see me."},{"start":17.74,"end":18.22,"text":"Immediately."},{"start":19.18,"end":20.38,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":20.4,"end":26.65,"text":"He comes in, and so... Well, I can chop him in, but I think we still shouldn't count on him."},{"start":27.01,"end":29.16,"text":"Fine, fine."},{"start":29.44,"end":35.89,"text":"Well, he can come in and see me and report to me so that I may want to do something the next day and I don't want to be here to have to see him."},{"start":37.09,"end":38.97,"text":"So we'll have him come in right away, okay?"},{"start":39.01,"end":46.16,"text":"Tell Ehrlichman that I want to see him directly from Andrews and report to me and then take off."},{"start":46.52,"end":47.08,"text":"Very well, sir."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon coordinated with Major John V. Brennan to arrange an immediate briefing with Secretary of the Treasury George P. Shultz upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base. Nixon directed that Shultz be brought to the White House to provide a report before departing again. The President also instructed Brennan to ensure John D. Ehrlichman was included in the process to facilitate this rapid exchange of information.","topics":["George P. Shultz","John D. Ehrlichman","White House scheduling","Logistics","Presidential briefings"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T05:25:17.551Z"},"topicSlugs":["george-p-shultz","john-d-ehrlichman","white-house-scheduling","logistics","presidential-briefings"],"audioDurationSec":54,"audioFiles":[{"file":"037-182.mp3","bytes":387072,"durationSec":54.03,"bitrate":57315,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.085Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/037-182.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/037-182","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/37/conversation-037-182","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}