{"conversationCode":"044-060","tapeNumber":44,"conversationNumber":60,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-044-060","startDateTime":"1973-03-29T00:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-29T00:56:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Mar-1973","startTime":"7:55 PM","endDate":"28-Mar-1973","endTime":"7:56 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.;","description":"On March 28, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 7:55 pm and 7:56 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 044-060 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. 044-060\n\nDate: March 28, 1973\nTime: 7:55 pm-7:56 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked John D. Ehrlichman.\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n[See also Conversation No. 425-25]\n\n       President’s statement\n             -Length","filename":["044-060.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Ehrlichman, John D."],"prevCode":"044-059","nextCode":"044-061","transcript":[{"start":0.55,"end":1.03,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.4,"end":1.88,"text":"Mr. Ehrlichman."},{"start":3.14,"end":3.26,"text":"Hello."},{"start":3.28,"end":7.56,"text":"I was wondering how we were coming on our statement, John."},{"start":8.52,"end":12.12,"text":"As far as I know, they're still working on it, Mr. President."},{"start":13.69,"end":14.35,"text":"Well, that's right."},{"start":14.49,"end":16.03,"text":"Let me make a phone call and see."},{"start":16.19,"end":18.23,"text":"It was not in by the time I left."},{"start":18.25,"end":18.57,"text":"Right."},{"start":19.63,"end":22.53,"text":"Let me check and see if it's in now and somebody's holding it up."},{"start":22.69,"end":24.18,"text":"I'll get it over to you."},{"start":24.2,"end":28.38,"text":"Sure."},{"start":28.4,"end":29.88,"text":"Something I can work with."},{"start":29.9,"end":30.02,"text":"Right."},{"start":33.11,"end":37.34,"text":"They know that I don't want a whole mess of stuff right now."},{"start":37.36,"end":37.84,"text":"Absolutely."},{"start":38.14,"end":39.82,"text":"I told them one paragraph."},{"start":40.34,"end":45.64,"text":"Okay, well, I may make it two, but by asking for one, we make it two pages."},{"start":45.66,"end":46.78,"text":"Well, I figured we'd get three."},{"start":47.34,"end":47.94,"text":"All right."},{"start":47.96,"end":48.79,"text":"Okay, I'll get on it."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and John Ehrlichman discuss the status of a pending presidential statement currently being drafted by staff. Nixon emphasizes his desire for brevity, explicitly instructing that the document should be concise despite his expectation that the final output will likely exceed his preferred length. Ehrlichman agrees to follow up with the staff to secure the draft and deliver it to the President for review.","topics":["Presidential statement","White House staff","Document drafting","Executive communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:50:21.839Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-statement","white-house-staff","document-drafting","executive-communication"],"audioDurationSec":51,"audioFiles":[{"file":"044-060.mp3","bytes":2043904,"durationSec":51,"bitrate":320622,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.404Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:44.250Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/044-060.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/044-060","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/44/conversation-044-060","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}