{"conversationCode":"044-082","tapeNumber":44,"conversationNumber":82,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-044-082","startDateTime":"1973-03-29T23:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-29T23:26:00.000Z","startDate":"29-Mar-1973","startTime":"6:25 PM","endDate":"29-Mar-1973","endTime":"6:26 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.;","description":"On March 29, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman talked on the telephone from 6:25 pm to 6:26 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 044-082 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. 044-082\n\nDate: March 29, 1973\nTime: 6:25-6:26 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with John D. Ehrlichman.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 426-20]\n\n       President's statement on Watergate\n             -Congress\n             -Cabinet\n             -Spiro T. Agnew\n             -William J. Baroody, Jr.\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n             -Kenneth W. Clawson\n             -Journalists\n             -Richard A. Moore","filename":["044-082.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Ehrlichman, John D."],"prevCode":"044-081","nextCode":"044-083","transcript":[{"start":1.01,"end":1.49,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":2.41,"end":26.71,"text":"I wondered what I had in mind here on this, if you could get one, is simply something that could be easy and simple that could be given to all of our congressional people, given to the members of the cabinet, for example, and Agnew, and frankly, then the Broody bunch could get a few more pen cloths into a few of the"},{"start":27.18,"end":28.12,"text":"of the colonists."},{"start":28.14,"end":28.95,"text":"That's what I had in mind."},{"start":28.97,"end":29.31,"text":"Okay."},{"start":29.53,"end":29.77,"text":"All right."},{"start":29.81,"end":32.38,"text":"In other words, so that we get some sort of a right over the weekend."},{"start":32.46,"end":32.68,"text":"All right."},{"start":32.88,"end":33.26,"text":"That's it."},{"start":33.78,"end":35.97,"text":"I don't know whether you can come up with anything, but you can."},{"start":36.79,"end":38.63,"text":"You can make a pretty good statement on this, don't you?"},{"start":38.73,"end":39.4,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":39.53,"end":40.44,"text":"I'm working on it with more."},{"start":40.58,"end":41.04,"text":"All right."},{"start":41.06,"end":42.22,"text":"I'll do it."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directed John Ehrlichman to draft a concise, clear statement regarding the Watergate scandal that could be distributed to members of Congress, the Cabinet, and Vice President Spiro Agnew. The primary objective was to establish a unified administration message that could be disseminated to journalists and political allies over the upcoming weekend. Ehrlichman confirmed he was already collaborating with Richard Moore on the drafting process to meet the President's request for a quick turnaround.","topics":["Watergate","Public Relations","Administration Strategy","Congressional Relations","Spiro Agnew","Richard Moore"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T06:52:24.215Z"},"topicSlugs":["watergate","public-relations","administration-strategy","congressional-relations","spiro-agnew","richard-moore"],"audioDurationSec":43,"audioFiles":[{"file":"044-082.mp3","bytes":1734656,"durationSec":43.28,"bitrate":320630,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:30.404Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:42:44.252Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/044-082.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/044-082","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/44/conversation-044-082","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}