{"conversationCode":"226-006","tapeNumber":226,"conversationNumber":6,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-226-006","startDateTime":"1972-11-17T17:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-11-17T17:43:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Nov-1972","startTime":"12:40 PM","endDate":"17-Nov-1972","endTime":"12:43 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\");","description":"On November 17, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman met in the Aspen Lodge study at Camp David from 12:40 pm to 12:43 pm. 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(\"Bob\")"],"prevCode":"226-005","nextCode":"226-007","transcript":[{"start":0.42,"end":4.94,"text":"Hello."},{"start":4.96,"end":13.29,"text":"Did you get the announcement for Ziegler?"},{"start":13.31,"end":14.61,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":20.02,"end":21.4,"text":"What's that?"},{"start":21.42,"end":27.12,"text":"Ziegler isn't here."},{"start":27.14,"end":27.56,"text":"Did he drop the bill?"},{"start":27.58,"end":27.68,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":27.7,"end":28.04,"text":"Oh yeah, yeah."},{"start":28.29,"end":29.05,"text":"Well, he left, yeah."},{"start":29.07,"end":29.16,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":29.18,"end":29.89,"text":"What is the problem?"},{"start":33.22,"end":62.96,"text":"Well, he's wrong about that."},{"start":63.23,"end":69.98,"text":"I'm going to hire each one of them myself."},{"start":70.4,"end":72.14,"text":"That's the point."},{"start":72.16,"end":74.94,"text":"And I don't mean it's that way."},{"start":74.96,"end":81.05,"text":"I'm sure that I did this."},{"start":81.07,"end":81.99,"text":"I hope he understands."},{"start":82.01,"end":83.93,"text":"He's not going to hire them."},{"start":83.95,"end":86.3,"text":"I'm going to call them all myself."},{"start":86.31,"end":88.58,"text":"Well, the point is, there's a little question."},{"start":88.6,"end":90.42,"text":"We've got to get the thing here."},{"start":90.44,"end":91.9,"text":"We're not going to change it on and on."},{"start":92.78,"end":106.47,"text":"Oh, that's right."},{"start":114.5,"end":119.39,"text":"I know you can't because"},{"start":125.23,"end":134.78,"text":"Yeah, the point is."},{"start":134.8,"end":144.72,"text":"That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right."},{"start":144.74,"end":145.32,"text":"Yeah, okay, fine, fine, fine."},{"start":145.34,"end":145.6,"text":"Yeah, I know."},{"start":145.62,"end":153.27,"text":"Yeah, that's right, you get the announcement done and so forth."},{"start":153.29,"end":153.63,"text":"Exactly, exactly."},{"start":153.88,"end":166.85,"text":"As a matter of fact, I don't know if you have to do it, do it, do it."},{"start":167.5,"end":168.46,"text":"There must be a cut-off."},{"start":168.48,"end":171.56,"text":"I don't know if all of us are doing it wrong."},{"start":171.58,"end":175.22,"text":"Or you can just say, say, I understand that this is the first."},{"start":175.24,"end":178.63,"text":"But we will say nothing about that second."},{"start":178.65,"end":179.63,"text":"We'll have no appointment at the end of the week."},{"start":179.65,"end":180.53,"text":"There will be a re-organization of the plan."},{"start":186.03,"end":213.5,"text":"Okay, good."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and H. R. Haldeman met to coordinate administrative staffing changes and the public messaging surrounding a planned reorganization. Nixon expressed dissatisfaction with Ron Ziegler’s handling of recent personnel announcements and asserted his intent to personally oversee the hiring process for key staff. They concluded by agreeing to establish a definitive cutoff for appointment announcements as part of a broader shift in the administration's structure.","topics":["Personnel management","White House reorganization","Ron Ziegler","Administrative procedure","Staff appointments"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T10:56:14.781Z"},"topicSlugs":["personnel-management","white-house-reorganization","ron-ziegler","administrative-procedure","staff-appointments"],"audioDurationSec":219,"audioFiles":[{"file":"226-006.mp3","bytes":5260245,"durationSec":219.05,"bitrate":192108,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.205Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:07.164Z","transcriptGapSeconds":57,"transcriptGapShare":0.26,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/226-006.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/226-006","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/226/conversation-226-006","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). 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