{"conversationCode":"310-012","tapeNumber":310,"conversationNumber":12,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-310-012","startDateTime":"1971-12-18T20:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-18T20:36:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Dec-1971","startTime":"3:35 PM","endDate":"18-Dec-1971","endTime":"3:36 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Hartley, Muriel L.;","description":"On December 18, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Muriel L. Hartley met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:35 pm to 3:36 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 310-012 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. 310-12\n\nDate: December 18, 1971\nTime: 3:35 pm - 3:36 pm\n\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with Muriel L. Hartley.\n\n[See Conversation No. 16-116]","filename":["310a.mp3","310b.mp3","310c.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:17:22","tapeEnd":"00:19:07","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Hartley, Muriel L."],"prevCode":"310-011","nextCode":"310-013","tapeTranscriptFile":"310a.mp3,310b.mp3,310c.mp3","transcript":[{"start":1057.84,"end":1068.69,"text":"Hello, Al Haig was telling me that you were finishing 30 years of work for the government today, and I just wanted to know how much we appreciated it."},{"start":1068.73,"end":1077.17,"text":"Yeah, you've been really a tower of strength for us over there, and that, I must say, that's a real hot box where you work, isn't it?"},{"start":1077.21,"end":1081.15,"text":"Yeah, right down the salt mine."},{"start":1081.21,"end":1087.01,"text":"Well, we do appreciate it, what you do for Al and Henry and the rest of us."},{"start":1088.46,"end":1089.74,"text":"been a very great assistance."},{"start":1089.86,"end":1096.53,"text":"I hope you'll listen to it, recognize every place, and have a good day."},{"start":1096.69,"end":1098.07,"text":"Bye."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":1042.75,"end":1129,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated this brief call to Muriel L. Hartley to personally acknowledge and thank her for thirty years of federal service. He specifically highlighted her essential contributions to the work of Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger during her tenure. The conversation served as a professional gesture of appreciation upon her retirement from the White House staff.","topics":["federal service","retirement","Alexander Haig","Henry Kissinger","White House staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:24:39.592Z"},"topicSlugs":["federal-service","retirement","alexander-haig","henry-kissinger","white-house-staff"],"audioDurationSec":105,"audioFiles":[{"file":"310a.mp3","bytes":117448201,"durationSec":7340.43,"bitrate":128001,"missing":false},{"file":"310b.mp3","bytes":117569827,"durationSec":7348.03,"bitrate":128001,"missing":false},{"file":"310c.mp3","bytes":56289070,"durationSec":3517.99,"bitrate":128002,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:38.956Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/310a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/310b.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/310c.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/310-012","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/310/conversation-310-012","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}