{"conversationCode":"246-016","tapeNumber":246,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-246-016","startDateTime":"1971-04-07T20:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-07T20:15:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Apr-1971","startTime":"3:11 PM","endDate":"7-Apr-1971","endTime":"3:15 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On April 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:11 pm and 3:15 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 246-016 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. 246-016\nDate: April 7, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:11 pm and 3:15 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\nThe President rehearsed a speech\n[A transcript of the final version of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents,\nRichard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 522-527]","filename":["246-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:24:47","tapeEnd":"03:25:33","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"246-015","nextCode":"246-017","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":17.09,"text":"Part of it."},{"start":17.11,"end":17.33,"text":"Yeah, yeah."},{"start":17.8,"end":40.98,"text":"As I continued facing what I found in any of the new offices, I was able to make the date for the recent American issue, and I was able to announce a step-up in control, without jeopardizing my regime's approach to Vietnam."},{"start":41,"end":43.29,"text":"The agent of my oldest role, Henry Leonard, had golfed on a wave before he reached the chances of a lasting peace."},{"start":43.31,"end":45.95,"text":"In January 1921, at the time of his death by a gun, there were no American combat coaches in Vietnam, and the Americans were killed."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon utilized this brief meeting to rehearse a public address regarding his Vietnam War policy. He focused on articulating his administration's strategy for troop withdrawal while maintaining stability in the region. The rehearsal served as a final refinement for the speech prior to its public delivery.","topics":["Vietnam War","Speechwriting","Foreign Policy","Troop withdrawal"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T11:33:03.560Z"},"topicSlugs":["vietnam-war","speechwriting","foreign-policy","troop-withdrawal"],"audioDurationSec":46,"audioFiles":[{"file":"246-016.mp3","bytes":1841946,"durationSec":45.92,"bitrate":320921,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.481Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/246-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/246-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/246/conversation-246-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}