{"conversationCode":"045-140","tapeNumber":45,"conversationNumber":140,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-045-140","startDateTime":"1973-05-02T16:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-05-02T16:12:00.000Z","startDate":"2-May-1973","startTime":"12:11 PM","endDate":"2-May-1973","endTime":"12:12 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Cole, Kenneth R., Jr.;","description":"On May 2, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. talked on the telephone from 12:11 pm to 12:12 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 045-140 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.5","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part V","chronReleaseDate":"21-Aug-2013","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 45-140\nDate: May 2, 1973\nTime: 12:11 pm - 12:12 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.\n\n[See also Conversation No. 909-26B]\n\n     Economic statement\n          -President’s approval","filename":["045-140.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Cole, Kenneth R., Jr."],"prevCode":"045-139","nextCode":"045-141","transcript":[{"start":0.44,"end":1.2,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":1.22,"end":1.98,"text":"I have Ken Cole."},{"start":2.14,"end":2.4,"text":"Ken."},{"start":3.34,"end":3.64,"text":"Hello."},{"start":3.9,"end":4.44,"text":"Mr. President."},{"start":4.5,"end":5.75,"text":"What about that statement?"},{"start":6.43,"end":10.71,"text":"Is that supposed to be down here, or what time do they want me to sign that, you know, the economic statement?"},{"start":10.77,"end":12.15,"text":"Is this the economic statement?"},{"start":12.18,"end":14.18,"text":"I believe that it should be down there now, sir."},{"start":14.94,"end":16.8,"text":"Yeah, well, I..."},{"start":17.14,"end":18.77,"text":"I don't need to see it, no."},{"start":18.83,"end":19.83,"text":"All right."},{"start":19.91,"end":21.65,"text":"I don't need to see it, so you can send it out."},{"start":21.77,"end":25.42,"text":"I mean, we have the agreement on it, so you let it go and tell them that I have approved it, okay?"},{"start":25.44,"end":26.26,"text":"All right, sir, I will."},{"start":26.28,"end":26.46,"text":"Bye."},{"start":26.48,"end":27.76,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. coordinated the final approval of an economic statement. Nixon confirmed that he did not need to review the document further, granting Cole authorization to release the statement immediately. Cole was tasked with relaying the President’s approval to the relevant parties to facilitate its dissemination.","topics":["Economic policy","Executive authorization","White House communications","Kenneth R. Cole, Jr."],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T07:13:07.796Z"},"topicSlugs":["economic-policy","executive-authorization","white-house-communications","kenneth-r-cole-jr"],"audioDurationSec":33,"audioFiles":[{"file":"045-140.mp3","bytes":1046528,"durationSec":32.6,"bitrate":256816,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.712Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/045-140.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/045-140","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/45/conversation-045-140","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}