{"conversationCode":"100-007","tapeNumber":100,"conversationNumber":7,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-100-007","startDateTime":"1972-05-05T15:37:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-08T13:10:00.000Z","startDate":"5-May-1972","startTime":"11:37 AM","endDate":"8-May-1972","endTime":"9:10 AM","dateCertainty":"estimated","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Ziegler, Ronald L.; White House tour group;","description":"Ronald L. Ziegler and a White House tour group met in the Cabinet Room of the White House on an unknown date, sometime between 11:37 am on May 5, 1972 and 9:10 am on May 8, 1972. The Cabinet Room taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 100-007 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"CAB","recordingDevice":"Cabinet Room","latitudeEstimated":38.8975,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":"Cabinet","chronRelease":"Cabinet Room Release","chronReleaseDate":"16-Oct-1997","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 100-7\n\nDate: Unknown between May 5 and May 8, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 11:37 am, May 5 and 9:10 am, May 8, 1972\nLocation: Cabinet Room\n\nRonald L. Ziegler met with a tour group\n\n     Cabinet Room\n          -Chairs\n               -Names\n               -The President\n               -Secretaries of departments\n               -The Vice President\n\n     Decision making\n          -Economy\n\n     Souvenir paper\n         -Secretary of State\n\n     Cabinet Room\n          -Carpeting\n          -Ziegler’s chair\n          -Evaluated\n\nZiegler, et al. left at an unknown time before 9:10 am, May 8, 1972","filename":["100-007.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Ziegler, Ronald L.","White House tour group"],"prevCode":"100-006","nextCode":"100-008","transcript":[{"start":0.05,"end":5.23,"text":"See, this is what I couldn't be with if it wasn't for you."},{"start":5.54,"end":11.28,"text":"All of the first captain members' names are on the back of the chair."},{"start":43.5,"end":46.78,"text":"What would you like to decide?"},{"start":46.82,"end":49.37,"text":"Vicki, what would you like to decide?"},{"start":49.38,"end":53.25,"text":"Do you think that we should improve the economy?"},{"start":53.29,"end":53.55,"text":"Yes."},{"start":53.57,"end":54.15,"text":"You do?"},{"start":54.37,"end":54.45,"text":"Yes."},{"start":74.76,"end":75.46,"text":"to feed people better."},{"start":75.5,"end":87.77,"text":"Excuse me, buddy, if you had all of the things that you wanted to have, what would you like to have?"},{"start":88.03,"end":88.56,"text":"Huh?"},{"start":88.69,"end":89.51,"text":"Good, okay."},{"start":89.57,"end":92.19,"text":"Now take your, take a piece of that."},{"start":92.21,"end":94.97,"text":"Just take it off of there."},{"start":94.99,"end":96.21,"text":"Just pull it off."},{"start":98.13,"end":101.83,"text":"Pull it off."},{"start":101.89,"end":102.03,"text":"There."},{"start":102.11,"end":103.77,"text":"Okay, if you think that's it."},{"start":104.54,"end":108.84,"text":"The President is bad, the Secretary of State is bad, and the President is bad, all right?"},{"start":128.6,"end":129.7,"text":"This is the new carpet that you put in here."},{"start":129.72,"end":131.18,"text":"This is the only one that I've attributed to this new carpet."},{"start":131.2,"end":132.44,"text":"I sit here, see how I got up and done with it."},{"start":132.47,"end":133.49,"text":"So I came back in and I can put this here."},{"start":133.51,"end":133.79,"text":"This is good."},{"start":133.81,"end":133.91,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":158.96,"end":160.71,"text":"Now here, let's just walk over here."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler conducted an informal tour of the White House Cabinet Room for a group of visitors, including children. During the visit, Ziegler explained the seating arrangements and significance of the room while engaging the group in lighthearted mock decision-making exercises regarding the economy. The tour concluded with participants examining the room's new carpeting and souvenir materials associated with the various Cabinet positions.","topics":["Ronald L. Ziegler","White House tours","Cabinet Room","Public relations","Presidential staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T08:01:05.082Z"},"topicSlugs":["ronald-l-ziegler","white-house-tours","cabinet-room","public-relations","presidential-staff"],"audioDurationSec":162,"audioFiles":[{"file":"100-007.mp3","bytes":6498011,"durationSec":162.3,"bitrate":320296,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:32.704Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/100-007.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/100-007","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/100/conversation-100-007","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}