{"conversationCode":"293-017","tapeNumber":293,"conversationNumber":17,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-293-017","startDateTime":"1971-11-17T22:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-17T22:44:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Nov-1971","startTime":"5:25 PM","endDate":"17-Nov-1971","endTime":"5:44 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On November 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:25 pm and 5:44 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 293-017 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. 293-17\n\nDate: November 17, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 5:25 pm and 5:44 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with an unknown person.\n\n     Presidential appearances before American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial\n           Organizations [AFL-CIO] conventions\n\n     The President's forthcoming speech to AFL-CIO convention\n          -Wages and prices, 1965-1969\n          -William L. Safire","filename":["293-017-splice.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:21:01","tapeEnd":"01:22:21","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"293-016","nextCode":"293-018","tapeTranscriptFile":"293a.mp3,293b.mp3","transcript":[{"start":4881.73,"end":4892.4,"text":"Isn't that amazing that nobody would have, I should have that in two minutes maybe, or maybe a half a minute."},{"start":4892.42,"end":4899.2,"text":"All right, go down and just get it for me by tonight, okay?"},{"start":4899.22,"end":4900.84,"text":"I didn't put a research team to work on it."},{"start":4900.86,"end":4910.05,"text":"The other is that there's something I do that I want to get accurately presented."},{"start":4910.07,"end":4910.71,"text":"No, that's the one."},{"start":4912.94,"end":4923.87,"text":"When did he, what did you say, next, which year?"},{"start":4926.13,"end":4926.63,"text":"That's right."},{"start":4926.93,"end":4933.52,"text":"Well, another way to get at that is to say that from 1965 to 1969, there was no"},{"start":4934.76,"end":4936.4,"text":"There were wage increases."},{"start":4936.42,"end":4938.01,"text":"I don't just say we're coming in late."},{"start":4938.06,"end":4939.28,"text":"Don't try to break it down."},{"start":4939.35,"end":4941.37,"text":"Wage increases were entirely number of price increases."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":4861,"end":4941,"startMethod":"llm-alignment","endMethod":"llm-alignment"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consults with an aide regarding his upcoming address to the AFL-CIO convention to ensure his economic messaging is accurate. He specifically requests research data comparing wage and price increases between 1965 and 1969 to support his argument that labor gains were consistently offset by inflation during that period. The President instructs staff to expedite this research, mentioning speechwriter William Safire, to solidify the economic narrative for his presentation.","topics":["AFL-CIO","Wages and Prices","Economic Policy","Speechwriting","William Safire"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T13:45:38.873Z"},"topicSlugs":["afl-cio","wages-and-prices","economic-policy","speechwriting","william-safire"],"audioDurationSec":83,"audioFiles":[{"file":"293-017-splice.mp3","bytes":1328736,"durationSec":83.02,"bitrate":128044,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T14:10:35.043Z","originalFilename":["293a.mp3","293b.mp3"],"spliceSource":{"spliceType":"bigtape","sourceFiles":["293a.mp3"],"cutStart":4859.5,"cutEnd":4942.5,"adjustedStart":4859.5,"adjustedEnd":4942.5,"boundaryMethod":"llm-alignment","confidence":"high","splicedAt":"2026-09-18T14:10:35.043Z"},"transcriptPrev":{"segments":27,"replacedAt":"2026-09-18T14:14:23.301Z"},"audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/293-017-splice.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/293-017","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/293/conversation-293-017","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}