{"conversationCode":"263-002","tapeNumber":263,"conversationNumber":2,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-263-002","startDateTime":"1971-07-20T17:58:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-20T19:10:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Jul-1971","startTime":"1:58 PM","endDate":"20-Jul-1971","endTime":"3:10 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;","description":"On July 20, 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 1:58 pm and 3:10 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 263-002 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. 263-2\n\nDate: July 20, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:58 pm and 3:10 pm\nLocation: Old Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with Henry A. Kissinger.\n\n     Foreign policy developments\n\n     Schedule","filename":["263-002.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:26:22","tapeEnd":"00:27:20","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Kissinger, Henry A."],"prevCode":"263-001","nextCode":"263-003","transcript":[{"start":7.91,"end":11.41,"text":"Why don't you make it so that one of your people can prove it?"},{"start":11.43,"end":11.53,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":11.59,"end":17.44,"text":"Well, they can't make it today."},{"start":17.46,"end":21.34,"text":"Well, that's going on."},{"start":21.36,"end":21.82,"text":"Fine, fine."},{"start":24.04,"end":28,"text":"Then could you come over?"},{"start":28.02,"end":28.14,"text":"Yep."},{"start":29.24,"end":32.6,"text":"Before he comes in."},{"start":37.76,"end":40.92,"text":"Yeah, what time you coming?"},{"start":40.94,"end":40.92,"text":"315."},{"start":41,"end":43.3,"text":"How about coming over if you could?"},{"start":43.33,"end":43.48,"text":"I got a..."},{"start":43.51,"end":47.49,"text":"I'll come over at about 3 o'clock."},{"start":47.57,"end":47.81,"text":"Do that."},{"start":48.81,"end":50.21,"text":"Come over at 5 on the tree."},{"start":50.91,"end":57.34,"text":"I'll invite you for a drink or something."},{"start":57.38,"end":57.64,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger coordinated a schedule for an upcoming meeting, ensuring Kissinger arrived before another visitor to discuss ongoing foreign policy developments. The discussion primarily served as a logistical bridge to facilitate a more substantive, private consultation later that afternoon. The pair agreed to meet at 3:00 p.m. to review sensitive diplomatic matters.","topics":["Foreign policy","Scheduling","Diplomacy","White House logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T12:23:11.979Z"},"topicSlugs":["foreign-policy","scheduling","diplomacy","white-house-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":58,"audioFiles":[{"file":"263-002.mp3","bytes":2325734,"durationSec":58,"bitrate":320765,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.007Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/263-002.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/263-002","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/263/conversation-263-002","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}