{"conversationCode":"292-012","tapeNumber":292,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-292-012","startDateTime":"1971-10-19T21:08:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-19T21:08:00.000Z","startDate":"19-Oct-1971","startTime":"5:08 PM","endDate":"19-Oct-1971","endTime":"5:08 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 19, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at 5:08 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 292-012 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. 292-12\n\nDate: October 19, 1971\nTime: 5:08 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 11-139]\n\n     Request for a call to Lewis F. Powell, Jr.","filename":["292a.mp3","292b.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:15:02","tapeEnd":"02:15:55","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"292-011","nextCode":"292-013","tapeTranscriptFile":"292a.mp3,292b.mp3","transcript":[{"start":8103.22,"end":8105.6,"text":"It don't happen."},{"start":8105.64,"end":8107.78,"text":"But it's not easy to end."},{"start":8108.44,"end":8111.61,"text":"It's a great irony that the sons of bitches have got us in."},{"start":8111.71,"end":8113.63,"text":"Harrod and the rest have got us in."},{"start":8114.71,"end":8119.95,"text":"The Kennedy clan and tribes have sabotaged every hecker for us to get us out."},{"start":8119.97,"end":8120.81,"text":"Every goddamn hecker."},{"start":8120.9,"end":8127.74,"text":"There's an interesting effort in the New York Times this morning to rehabilitate J.F."},{"start":8127.8,"end":8128.04,"text":"Kennedy."},{"start":8130.9,"end":8141.49,"text":"There are all these Latter-day Carpers who are now running down, and he's really a far sighted man."},{"start":8146.54,"end":8148.38,"text":"He was going to get rid of Rusk."},{"start":8148.42,"end":8152.06,"text":"He was going to get rid of his advisers."},{"start":8152.08,"end":8153.48,"text":"He was going to lead us out of the war mess."},{"start":8154.1,"end":8155,"text":"He was going to have a Russian summit, and he was going to have a summit in Japan, and he was going to solve all problems in the Far East if he's going to live."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":8102,"end":8155,"startMethod":"tape_time","endMethod":"tape_time"},"transcriptConfidence":"low","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed the White House operator to place a call to Lewis F. Powell, Jr. during a brief administrative interaction. Following the request, Nixon engaged in a spontaneous critique of political opposition, specifically disparaging the Kennedy family's influence on the Vietnam War and their perceived efforts to rehabilitate the legacy of John F. Kennedy in the media. No further official actions were taken during this exchange.","topics":["Lewis F. Powell Jr.","John F. Kennedy","Vietnam War","Political criticism","Media analysis"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:41:46.118Z"},"topicSlugs":["lewis-f-powell-jr","john-f-kennedy","vietnam-war","political-criticism","media-analysis"],"audioDurationSec":53,"audioFiles":[{"file":"292a.mp3","bytes":117474532,"durationSec":7342.08,"bitrate":128001,"missing":false},{"file":"292b.mp3","bytes":70266879,"durationSec":4391.61,"bitrate":128002,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.615Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/292a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/292b.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/292-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/292/conversation-292-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}