{"conversationCode":"258-051","tapeNumber":258,"conversationNumber":51,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-258-051","startDateTime":"1971-06-23T19:43:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-06-23T19:48:00.000Z","startDate":"23-Jun-1971","startTime":"3:43 PM","endDate":"23-Jun-1971","endTime":"3:48 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Campbell, J. Philip;","description":"On June 23, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and J. Philip Campbell met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:43 pm and 3:48 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 258-051 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. 258-51\n\nDate: June 23, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 3:43 pm and 3:48 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with J. Philip Campbell\n\n[See Conversation No. 5-150]\n                                              24\n\n                            NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF\n\n                                      Tape Subject Log\n                                        (rev. 10/08)","filename":["258-051.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:14:04","tapeEnd":"01:15:15","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Campbell, J. Philip"],"prevCode":"258-050","nextCode":"258-052","transcript":[{"start":0.17,"end":1.09,"text":"You're out of Wisconsin, I understand."},{"start":12.56,"end":12.98,"text":"That's great."},{"start":13,"end":19.5,"text":"I guess I'll tell you that I'm sitting here doing some of my reading, and I came across the reoccurrence you made at the meeting, because I thought your secretary was sound, very effectively spoken of by Chief Wilson."},{"start":19.52,"end":22.44,"text":"I just want to thank you for it, and I'm very pleased that, as Jihari has done in our team,"},{"start":37.64,"end":37.98,"text":"No, sir."},{"start":38.04,"end":39.2,"text":"You've got to really step up."},{"start":39.24,"end":42.94,"text":"And you and others, I take an impact in the same way."},{"start":43.08,"end":50.05,"text":"I'm trying to get him into something."},{"start":50.07,"end":55.25,"text":"You might tell John that the impact was really quite uncomfortable."},{"start":57.51,"end":58.35,"text":"Assign that to him."},{"start":62.34,"end":66.27,"text":"well we appreciate your artwork out there give those people out there my best"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Under Secretary of Agriculture J. Philip Campbell to express personal appreciation for his recent performance and regional outreach efforts. During the brief exchange, Nixon encouraged Campbell to increase his administrative visibility and impact within the administration. The President further directed Campbell to communicate specific feedback regarding these outreach efforts to John Ehrlichman.","topics":["J. Philip Campbell","Personnel management","John Ehrlichman","Political outreach","Administrative leadership"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:12:54.925Z"},"topicSlugs":["j-philip-campbell","personnel-management","john-ehrlichman","political-outreach","administrative-leadership"],"audioDurationSec":70,"audioFiles":[{"file":"258-051.mp3","bytes":2815807,"durationSec":70.24,"bitrate":320691,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:36.695Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/258-051.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/258-051","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/258/conversation-258-051","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}