{"conversationCode":"258-007","tapeNumber":258,"conversationNumber":7,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-258-007","startDateTime":"1971-06-14T23:13:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-14T23:15:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Jun-1971","startTime":"7:13 PM","endDate":"14-Jun-1971","endTime":"7:15 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ehrlichman, John D.;","description":"On June 14, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 7:13 pm to 7:15 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 258-007 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. 258-7\n\nDate: June 14, 1971\nTime: 7:13 pm - 7:15 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nJohn D. Ehrlichman talked with the President\n\n[See Conversation No. 5-68]","filename":["258-007.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:08:53","tapeEnd":"00:09:30","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Ehrlichman, John D."],"prevCode":"258-006","nextCode":"258-008","transcript":[{"start":1.13,"end":1.37,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":2.43,"end":3.21,"text":"Times."},{"start":3.31,"end":7.77,"text":"Hell, I've been prosecuted times."},{"start":7.83,"end":16.02,"text":"My view is to prosecute the goddamn crooks that gave it to them."},{"start":16.06,"end":20.16,"text":"You know, the prosecutions."},{"start":20.18,"end":21.7,"text":"They're going to run another story tomorrow."},{"start":22.48,"end":29.02,"text":"But if you just wait until after that, today they have one more day after that."},{"start":30.19,"end":30.68,"text":"Whoa!"},{"start":30.98,"end":31.18,"text":"Whoa!"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and John Ehrlichman discuss the administration's aggressive response to the publication of the Pentagon Papers. Nixon expresses a strong preference for prosecuting the individuals who leaked the classified documents rather than the newspaper outlets themselves. The two strategize on managing the ongoing media fallout from the unauthorized disclosures.","topics":["Pentagon Papers","Leaks","New York Times","Prosecution","Media strategy"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:08:51.228Z"},"topicSlugs":["pentagon-papers","leaks","new-york-times","prosecution","media-strategy"],"audioDurationSec":37,"audioFiles":[{"file":"258-007.mp3","bytes":1489831,"durationSec":37.11,"bitrate":321138,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.695Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/258-007.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/258-007","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/258/conversation-258-007","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}