{"conversationCode":"281-012","tapeNumber":281,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-281-012","startDateTime":"1971-10-21T13:51:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-21T14:06:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Oct-1971","startTime":"9:51 AM","endDate":"21-Oct-1971","endTime":"10:06 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On October 21, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:51 am and 10:06 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 281-012 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 281-12\n\nDate: October 21, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 9:51 am and 10:06 am\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President rehearsed a speech.\n\n[A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears in Public Papers of the Presidents,\nRichard M. Nixon, 1971, pp. 1053-1057]","filename":["281-012-splice.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:58:47","tapeEnd":"01:00:46","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"281-011","nextCode":"281-013","tapeTranscriptFile":"281a.mp3,281b.mp3,281c.mp3","transcript":[{"start":3539.62,"end":3551.43,"text":"In the debate of the confirmation of the two men, of the two individuals I have selected, who will be charged, they are conservatives."},{"start":3551.51,"end":3556.97,"text":"The charge is true."},{"start":3556.99,"end":3560.17,"text":"I, too, am a conservative."},{"start":3560.19,"end":3566.41,"text":"During my campaign, I placed the nominee to the Supreme Court."},{"start":3568.05,"end":3585.68,"text":"and who shared my, individuals who shared my whole, my judicial philosophy, which is basically a conservative philosophy."},{"start":3585.7,"end":3591.89,"text":"Let me, there is one area which,"},{"start":3597.72,"end":3607.08,"text":"There's one example which are very specific to that point."},{"start":3608.36,"end":3621.2,"text":"Many cases over the past few years have come before the court involving the development, the development, the development of"},{"start":3623.21,"end":3629.15,"text":"between the rights of society and the rights of defendants accused of crimes against society."},{"start":3629.31,"end":3637.98,"text":"I've denigrated constitutional organs and disagreed with them."},{"start":3642.7,"end":3644.7,"text":"I'm still aware of how they maintain that balance."},{"start":3647.32,"end":3650.81,"text":"Mr. Waller, the defendant in 1967 said that the balance in this country"},{"start":3652.38,"end":3655.7,"text":"at two-part extant piece courses and four criminal courses."},{"start":3662.35,"end":3662.99,"text":"Okay, thank you."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":3539.08,"end":3662,"startMethod":"llm-alignment","endMethod":"llm-alignment"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon utilized time in his Executive Office Building office to conduct a private rehearsal of an upcoming public address. The session focused on refining the rhetoric and delivery of the speech to ensure clarity and effective messaging for the intended national audience. This preparation was finalized for the official broadcast subsequently recorded in the Public Papers of the Presidents.","topics":["Speech rehearsal","Presidential communication","Public relations","Speechwriting"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:10:21.109Z"},"topicSlugs":["speech-rehearsal","presidential-communication","public-relations","speechwriting"],"audioDurationSec":126,"audioFiles":[{"file":"281-012-splice.mp3","bytes":2015443,"durationSec":125.94,"bitrate":128029,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T14:10:31.184Z","originalFilename":["281a.mp3","281b.mp3","281c.mp3"],"spliceSource":{"spliceType":"bigtape","sourceFiles":["281a.mp3"],"cutStart":3537.58,"cutEnd":3663.5,"adjustedStart":3537.58,"adjustedEnd":3663.5,"boundaryMethod":"llm-alignment","confidence":"high","splicedAt":"2026-09-18T14:10:31.184Z"},"transcriptPrev":{"segments":12,"replacedAt":"2026-09-18T14:14:04.673Z"},"audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/281-012-splice.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/281-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/281/conversation-281-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}