{"conversationCode":"245-010","tapeNumber":245,"conversationNumber":10,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-245-010","startDateTime":"1971-04-06T16:10:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-06T16:11:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Apr-1971","startTime":"11:10 AM","endDate":"6-Apr-1971","endTime":"11:11 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Acker, Marjorie P.;","description":"On April 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Marjorie P. Acker met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 11:10 am to 11:11 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 245-010 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 245-010\n\nDate: April 6, 1971\nTime: 11:10 am - 11:11 am\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with Marjorie P. Acker\n\n[See Conversation No. 42-13]","filename":["245-010.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:57:42","tapeEnd":"02:01:13","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Acker, Marjorie P."],"prevCode":"245-009","nextCode":"245-011","transcript":[{"start":4.4,"end":4.84,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":6.06,"end":8.63,"text":"Pardon."},{"start":10.13,"end":25.07,"text":"Now, you can take this, but, uh, if you will look at the, uh, the, uh... Oh."},{"start":29.43,"end":30.48,"text":"Page 14."},{"start":30.5,"end":30.66,"text":"Page 14."},{"start":30.68,"end":30.78,"text":"Uh..."},{"start":30.8,"end":33.68,"text":"The sentence ending has been a long, difficult trial for us."},{"start":33.7,"end":33.8,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":34.13,"end":57.3,"text":"From there on, I want you to, not for me, but for the draft you give the commissioner to leave and move your name."},{"start":57.32,"end":57.84,"text":"That is in the old speech."},{"start":57.86,"end":58.18,"text":"See what I mean?"},{"start":58.2,"end":58.5,"text":"Let me explain."},{"start":58.52,"end":59.77,"text":"This is all a change, you know, that part of it is a change."},{"start":59.78,"end":62.47,"text":"You remember where I say, but I'm sure you're not going to come."},{"start":62.81,"end":63.99,"text":"You remember that part of the answer on the yellow table?"},{"start":64.68,"end":80.58,"text":"What I want you to do is to go right back to the draft that I was working on."},{"start":80.6,"end":80.92,"text":"Find that draft."},{"start":80.94,"end":81.54,"text":"You've got it in front of you."},{"start":81.56,"end":83,"text":"All right, what's it say right after?"},{"start":83.02,"end":83.86,"text":"All right, fine."},{"start":83.89,"end":84.15,"text":"Bad sentence."},{"start":84.17,"end":84.43,"text":"Bad sentence."},{"start":84.73,"end":96.46,"text":"And everything else from there on, as it was in that draft, that's what the draft can get at the end."},{"start":96.48,"end":96.72,"text":"Fair enough."},{"start":96.74,"end":97.72,"text":"I'll just get it at the end."},{"start":97.74,"end":97.94,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Marjorie P. Acker to provide specific editorial direction for a speech draft. He instructed Acker to revert to an earlier version of the text, explicitly identifying a problematic sentence that needed to be removed. Acker agreed to modify the draft for the commissioner based on the President's requested revisions.","topics":["Speechwriting","Editorial review","White House communications","Drafting"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T11:30:50.127Z"},"topicSlugs":["speechwriting","editorial-review","white-house-communications","drafting"],"audioDurationSec":98,"audioFiles":[{"file":"245-010.mp3","bytes":3921293,"durationSec":97.91,"bitrate":320411,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.481Z","transcriptGapSeconds":39,"transcriptGapShare":0.4,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/245-010.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/245-010","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/245/conversation-245-010","catalogNaId":417183237,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417183237","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}