{"conversationCode":"300-003","tapeNumber":300,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-300-003","startDateTime":"1971-11-02T18:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-02T18:31:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Nov-1971","startTime":"1:30 PM","endDate":"2-Nov-1971","endTime":"1:31 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On November 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 1:30 pm to 1:31 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 300-003 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. 300-003\n\nDate: November 2, 1971\nTime: 1:30 pm - 1:31 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with William P. Rogers.\n\n[See Conversation No. 13-73]","filename":["300-003.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:04:11","tapeEnd":"00:05:18","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"300-002","nextCode":"300-004","transcript":[{"start":4.57,"end":28.22,"text":"Oh, I see."},{"start":28.54,"end":31.18,"text":"I was going to try to figure it out."},{"start":32.82,"end":46.6,"text":"But this time we had a good talk about it."},{"start":46.62,"end":46.82,"text":"I like it."},{"start":46.84,"end":49.15,"text":"Oh, he's a fightsy guy."},{"start":50.41,"end":51.52,"text":"And a very impulsive."},{"start":51.54,"end":51.84,"text":"Very impulsive."},{"start":51.86,"end":51.98,"text":"Right."},{"start":52,"end":52.16,"text":"Bye-bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, informal discussion with the White House operator to facilitate a connection with Secretary of State William P. Rogers. The conversation included brief, candid observations regarding an unnamed individual’s temperament, characterizing him as a 'fightsy' and 'impulsive' person. The exchange served primarily as a logistical intermediary step to initiate further official communication with the Secretary of State.","topics":["William P. Rogers","White House operations","Presidential communications","Staff observations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:03:25.236Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-p-rogers","white-house-operations","presidential-communications","staff-observations"],"audioDurationSec":52,"audioFiles":[{"file":"300-003.mp3","bytes":2090592,"durationSec":52.12,"bitrate":320864,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.956Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/300-003.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/300-003","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/300/conversation-300-003","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}