{"conversationCode":"307-021","tapeNumber":307,"conversationNumber":21,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-307-021","startDateTime":"1971-12-08T20:43:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-08T20:44:00.000Z","startDate":"8-Dec-1971","startTime":"3:43 PM","endDate":"8-Dec-1971","endTime":"3:44 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Mitchell, John N.;","description":"On December 8, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and John N. Mitchell met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:43 pm to 3:44 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 307-021 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. 307-021\n\nDate: December 8, 1971\nTime: 3:43 pm - 3:44 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with John N. Mitchell.\n\n[See Conversation No. 16-56]","filename":["307-021.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:43:09","tapeEnd":"00:43:54","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Mitchell, John N."],"prevCode":"307-020","nextCode":"307-022","transcript":[{"start":1.5,"end":18.2,"text":"Hello."},{"start":18.22,"end":22.42,"text":"Hi, John, how are you?"},{"start":22.44,"end":22.68,"text":"How are you?"},{"start":22.7,"end":22.76,"text":"Hi."},{"start":22.78,"end":24.1,"text":"I was wanting to chat to you a little about that compliment again."},{"start":24.12,"end":24.94,"text":"I understand you're very close to a zero."},{"start":24.96,"end":25.38,"text":"I'm happy to see you."},{"start":25.4,"end":25.5,"text":"Zero?"},{"start":25.52,"end":25.62,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":25.64,"end":26.18,"text":"Are you at your office now?"},{"start":26.2,"end":26.3,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":26.32,"end":26.95,"text":"Could you come over to the EOB?"},{"start":26.96,"end":27.51,"text":"Yeah, I'll order the pilot."},{"start":27.53,"end":27.73,"text":"All right."},{"start":28.03,"end":35.91,"text":"Fuck, I don't have any."},{"start":35.93,"end":36.45,"text":"I got somebody in the 431."},{"start":36.47,"end":37.14,"text":"I need time to finish this thing."},{"start":37.16,"end":37.5,"text":"Fuck, fuck, fuck."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Attorney General John Mitchell coordinate a brief, in-person meeting at the Old Executive Office Building. The conversation primarily serves as a logistical arrangement for Mitchell to travel to the White House following a discussion regarding a \"compliment\" and administrative status updates. Due to the brevity of the call and interruptions, no substantive policy decisions were finalized beyond the immediate scheduling of their encounter.","topics":["Logistics","Scheduling","White House operations","Executive communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:19:36.105Z"},"topicSlugs":["logistics","scheduling","white-house-operations","executive-communication"],"audioDurationSec":38,"audioFiles":[{"file":"307-021.mp3","bytes":1506534,"durationSec":37.53,"bitrate":321145,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.956Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:18.807Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/307-021.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/307-021","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/307/conversation-307-021","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}