{"conversationCode":"042-043","tapeNumber":42,"conversationNumber":43,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-042-043","startDateTime":"1971-04-15T20:15:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-15T20:16:00.000Z","startDate":"15-Apr-1971","startTime":"3:15 PM","endDate":"15-Apr-1971","endTime":"3:16 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\"); Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On April 15, 1971, H. R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman and President Richard M. Nixon talked on the telephone from 3:15 pm to 3:16 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 042-043 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 42-43\n\nDate: April 15, 1971\nTime: 3:15 pm - 3:16 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nH. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the President.\n\n[See Conversation No. 249-10]\n\n     Meeting with editors\n          -Herbert G. Klein\n          -Leonard Garment\n          -Richard A. Moore","filename":["042-043.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:51:18","tapeEnd":"00:52:21","participantsList":["Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\")","Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"042-042","nextCode":"042-044","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.53,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":0.55,"end":2.43,"text":"Mr. President, Mr. Haldeman."},{"start":3.62,"end":3.96,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":4.68,"end":5.36,"text":"You are, sir."},{"start":5.38,"end":5.64,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":6.24,"end":19.02,"text":"I didn't want to interrupt you except to say that I feel I wanted to be sure that you had in mind that these editors ought to be worked just like you work a Republican governor's conference or something, you know?"},{"start":19.86,"end":20.1,"text":"Right."},{"start":20.58,"end":25.24,"text":"I mean, now you've got Klein, but what I meant is you ought to have Garment and I don't know."},{"start":25.26,"end":28.47,"text":"There must be several people that others that it could..."},{"start":28.84,"end":30.42,"text":"go down and talk to these people."},{"start":30.6,"end":33.12,"text":"They have some, I know, but let me check."},{"start":33.44,"end":41.05,"text":"It should be just a straight-out deal, picking out our friends, talking to them, etc., etc."},{"start":41.15,"end":43.57,"text":"I don't mean just when I go, but it ought to be worked that way."},{"start":44.31,"end":45.02,"text":"Right."},{"start":45.06,"end":46.32,"text":"Today and tomorrow."},{"start":46.48,"end":47.48,"text":"They have been during the week."},{"start":48.58,"end":57.35,"text":"That's what I meant all week long, that he should have set up a program whereby more would be very good at this, you know, and pick up certain people."},{"start":57.75,"end":58.69,"text":"Okay, fine."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"H. R. Haldeman advises President Nixon on the importance of managing a scheduled meeting with editors by employing a strategic outreach program similar to political party outreach. Haldeman suggests that beyond Herbert Klein, staffers like Leonard Garment and Richard Moore should actively cultivate relationships with these editors to better advance the administration's interests. The President agrees to follow up with staff to ensure a more comprehensive, systematic engagement plan is implemented.","topics":["Media relations","Public relations","Staff management","Political strategy","Herbert G. Klein"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:18:02.286Z"},"topicSlugs":["media-relations","public-relations","staff-management","political-strategy","herbert-g-klein"],"audioDurationSec":59,"audioFiles":[{"file":"042-043.mp3","bytes":716800,"durationSec":59.03,"bitrate":97142,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.403Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/042-043.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/042-043","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/42/conversation-042-043","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}