{"conversationCode":"255-020","tapeNumber":255,"conversationNumber":20,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-255-020","startDateTime":"1971-06-07T19:09:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-07T19:20:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Jun-1971","startTime":"3:09 PM","endDate":"7-Jun-1971","endTime":"3:20 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;","description":"On June 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:09 pm and 3:20 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 255-020 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. 255-20\n\nDate: June 7, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:09 pm and 3:20 pm\n\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with an unknown person [Henry A. Kissinger?]\n\n     Unknown person’s [Kissinger?] location\n\n     Peter G. Peterson’s [?] memo\n           -Textiles\n\n     President’s schedule","filename":["255-020.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:30:28","tapeEnd":"00:31:27","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Kissinger, Henry A."],"prevCode":"255-019","nextCode":"255-021","transcript":[{"start":1.53,"end":1.89,"text":"Are you a fugitive?"},{"start":1.91,"end":2.59,"text":"What position were you involved in?"},{"start":2.61,"end":2.93,"text":"I don't remember."},{"start":2.95,"end":3.35,"text":"I just want to leave."},{"start":3.37,"end":3.87,"text":"This is all the big thing."},{"start":3.89,"end":4.09,"text":"Part of it."},{"start":22.51,"end":23.85,"text":"I am terribly, but let me say this, we have a very important chance."},{"start":23.87,"end":24.97,"text":"I'm going to make you try to stop me in the next moment."},{"start":24.99,"end":25.99,"text":"That's in consideration of other things on my mind."},{"start":26.01,"end":26.3,"text":"Are you racing?"},{"start":26.32,"end":26.36,"text":"No."},{"start":26.38,"end":26.86,"text":"Have you talked to Peter?"},{"start":26.88,"end":27.48,"text":"We've got him around the ruler."},{"start":27.5,"end":27.68,"text":"All right."},{"start":27.7,"end":28.52,"text":"I'll be over to you in about five minutes."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Henry Kissinger met to briefly coordinate their schedules and address administrative matters. They specifically discussed a memo regarding textile policy authored by Peter G. Peterson. The two men aimed to synchronize their upcoming movements and finalize their approach to the pending textile issues.","topics":["Textile policy","Peter G. Peterson","White House scheduling","Trade negotiations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:01:54.643Z"},"topicSlugs":["textile-policy","peter-g-peterson","white-house-scheduling","trade-negotiations"],"audioDurationSec":53,"audioFiles":[{"file":"255-020.mp3","bytes":2108395,"durationSec":52.57,"bitrate":320837,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.695Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/255-020.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/255-020","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/255/conversation-255-020","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}