{"conversationCode":"283-030","tapeNumber":283,"conversationNumber":30,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-283-030","startDateTime":"1971-10-06T15:44:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-06T15:45:00.000Z","startDate":"6-Oct-1971","startTime":"11:44 AM","endDate":"6-Oct-1971","endTime":"11:45 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Safire, William L.;","description":"On October 6, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and William L. Safire met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 11:44 am to 11:45 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 283-030 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. 283-030\nDate: October 6, 1971\nTime: 11:44 am - 11:45 am\nLocation: Executive Office Building\nThe President talked with William L. Safire.\n[See Conversation No. 10-79]","filename":["283-030.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:19:27","tapeEnd":"02:19:58","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Safire, William L."],"prevCode":"283-029","nextCode":"283-031","transcript":[{"start":0.15,"end":7.76,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":7.78,"end":10.37,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":10.39,"end":22.55,"text":"If you could move that up to four o'clock, it would be a little better."},{"start":22.57,"end":23.35,"text":"I, uh, it'll give me a... Four o'clock."},{"start":23.37,"end":24.05,"text":"You've got a very good start here."},{"start":24.07,"end":24.33,"text":"A little bit."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and William Safire briefly coordinate their schedules, with the President requesting that an upcoming appointment be rescheduled to four o'clock. Nixon acknowledges Safire's work on a document, commending him for providing a strong initial draft. No further substantive policy discussions occurred during this brief interaction.","topics":["Scheduling","Speechwriting","White House administration"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:22:26.267Z"},"topicSlugs":["scheduling","speechwriting","white-house-administration"],"audioDurationSec":24,"audioFiles":[{"file":"283-030.mp3","bytes":977831,"durationSec":24.31,"bitrate":321773,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.616Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/283-030.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/283-030","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/283/conversation-283-030","catalogNaId":417184605,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417184605","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}