{"conversationCode":"304-010","tapeNumber":304,"conversationNumber":10,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-304-010","startDateTime":"1971-10-25T19:12:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-25T19:15:00.000Z","startDate":"25-Oct-1971","startTime":"3:12 PM","endDate":"25-Oct-1971","endTime":"3:15 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haig, Alexander M., Jr.;","description":"On October 25, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:12 pm to 3:15 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 304-010 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. 304-10\n\nDate: October 25, 1971\nTime: 3:12 pm 3:15 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\fThe President talked with Alexander M. Haig, Jr.\n\n[See Conversation No. 12-117]","filename":["304-010.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:37:23","tapeEnd":"00:40:30","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Haig, Alexander M., Jr."],"prevCode":"304-009","nextCode":"304-011","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":0.57,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":7.22,"end":16.17,"text":"All right."},{"start":17.23,"end":17.35,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":17.37,"end":17.61,"text":"Yeah, hello."},{"start":17.63,"end":18.75,"text":"Would you do that then?"},{"start":18.77,"end":26.82,"text":"It'll at least give me an option in case I want to take some of these off."},{"start":26.84,"end":27.44,"text":"All right."},{"start":27.46,"end":27.74,"text":"Right, right."},{"start":35.35,"end":54.51,"text":"That, uh, you ought to be with us."},{"start":54.53,"end":63.08,"text":"It's a personal letter, though."},{"start":64.43,"end":90.05,"text":"Why don't you have an oral message for that person, or is that not satisfying?"},{"start":90.07,"end":91.77,"text":"Why don't you have an oral message for that person, or is that not satisfying?"},{"start":91.83,"end":94.09,"text":"Why don't you have an oral message for that person, or is that not satisfying?"},{"start":94.43,"end":117.4,"text":"Just right like that."},{"start":118.27,"end":132.5,"text":"The congressional support that I'm fighting for, I deeply believe in."},{"start":133.8,"end":140.96,"text":"But I would therefore, in order that I can continue to maintain congressional support for the House, I would personally come here and make some recommendations."},{"start":146.94,"end":152.73,"text":"Okay?"},{"start":162.37,"end":162.69,"text":"Good deal."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Alexander Haig coordinate the delivery of a message to an unnamed recipient regarding the maintenance of critical congressional support. Nixon expresses a desire to present personal recommendations to the individual in question to ensure legislative backing for the administration. The conversation focuses on balancing the formality of a written letter with the tactical benefits of an oral message to secure necessary political cooperation.","topics":["Congressional relations","Political strategy","Administration messaging","Legislative support","Communication tactics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:14:57.241Z"},"topicSlugs":["congressional-relations","political-strategy","administration-messaging","legislative-support","communication-tactics"],"audioDurationSec":163,"audioFiles":[{"file":"304-010.mp3","bytes":6511595,"durationSec":162.64,"bitrate":320289,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.956Z","transcriptGapSeconds":68,"transcriptGapShare":0.42,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/304-010.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/304-010","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/304/conversation-304-010","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}