{"conversationCode":"308-008","tapeNumber":308,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-308-008","startDateTime":"1971-12-10T18:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-10T19:17:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Dec-1971","startTime":"1:35 PM","endDate":"10-Dec-1971","endTime":"2:17 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On December 10, 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 1:35 pm and 2:17 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 308-008 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. 308-8\n\nDate: December 10, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:35 pm and 2:17 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with an unknown person.\n\n     Tax bill\n\n     Meeting with Clark MacGregor\n          -Time\n\n     The President's schedule\n\n     Instructions to the staff","filename":["308-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:09:06","tapeEnd":"00:12:19","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"308-007","nextCode":"308-009","transcript":[{"start":0.47,"end":27.41,"text":"The next bill is all right."},{"start":30.69,"end":55.57,"text":"."},{"start":55.59,"end":55.61,"text":"."},{"start":55.63,"end":55.65,"text":"."},{"start":55.67,"end":55.69,"text":"."},{"start":56.6,"end":83.38,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":83.4,"end":83.5,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":83.52,"end":83.62,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":96.83,"end":124.29,"text":"I think we should, I want to change the water."},{"start":124.31,"end":124.57,"text":"Is that good?"},{"start":124.59,"end":124.69,"text":"Fine."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consulted with an unidentified staff member regarding legislative priorities and administrative scheduling. The discussion centered on the status of a pending tax bill and the coordination of a future meeting with Clark MacGregor. Nixon provided specific directives regarding his upcoming calendar and general instructions for staff management.","topics":["Tax legislation","White House staff management","Clark MacGregor","Presidential scheduling"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:21:39.590Z"},"topicSlugs":["tax-legislation","white-house-staff-management","clark-macgregor","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":125,"audioFiles":[{"file":"308-008.mp3","bytes":5006938,"durationSec":125.02,"bitrate":320380,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.956Z","transcriptGapSeconds":106,"transcriptGapShare":0.85,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/308-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/308-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/308/conversation-308-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}