{"conversationCode":"258-035","tapeNumber":258,"conversationNumber":35,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-258-035","startDateTime":"1971-06-18T01:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-18T01:39:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Jun-1971","startTime":"9:35 PM","endDate":"17-Jun-1971","endTime":"9:39 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On June 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:35 pm and 9:39 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 258-035 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. 258-35\n\nDate: June 17, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:35 pm and 9:39 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with an unknown person\n\n     “Senior Citizens” message\n          -Changes in speech draft\n          -Property tax\n          -Length","filename":["258-035.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:53:42","tapeEnd":"00:55:00","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"258-034","nextCode":"258-036","transcript":[{"start":0.19,"end":17.26,"text":"The only two things that could be added, because I think that we want to get into central themes, is a short paragraph on the property tax law and another paragraph on the law that gives us a job to work on that."},{"start":17.28,"end":18.56,"text":"I'll send a copy back over to you."},{"start":19.95,"end":23.02,"text":"I don't want to add anything on it."},{"start":23.09,"end":27.3,"text":"There are several other excellent things they've done."},{"start":27.32,"end":30.98,"text":"There's so much in it already that it just doesn't matter."},{"start":31,"end":31.78,"text":"This is just mine."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with an unknown individual to review and finalize revisions for a message concerning senior citizens. The discussion focused on streamlining the draft by incorporating specific sections on property tax legislation while maintaining a concise overall length. Nixon ultimately decided against adding further content, concluding that the current document was already sufficiently comprehensive.","topics":["Senior citizens","Property tax","Speech writing","Legislative policy","White House drafting"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:11:27.712Z"},"topicSlugs":["senior-citizens","property-tax","speech-writing","legislative-policy","white-house-drafting"],"audioDurationSec":38,"audioFiles":[{"file":"258-035.mp3","bytes":1520134,"durationSec":37.87,"bitrate":321140,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.695Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/258-035.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/258-035","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/258/conversation-258-035","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}