{"conversationCode":"310-029","tapeNumber":310,"conversationNumber":29,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-310-029","startDateTime":"1971-12-26T17:12:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-26T17:16:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Dec-1971","startTime":"12:12 PM","endDate":"26-Dec-1971","endTime":"12:16 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Moorer, Thomas H. (Adm.);","description":"On December 26, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Adm.Thomas H. Moorer met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 12:12 pm to 12:16 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 310-029 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. 310-29\n\nDate: December 26, 1971\n\nTime: 12:12 pm - 12:16 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with Adm. Thomas H. Moorer.\n\n[See Conversation No. 17-102]","filename":["310a.mp3","310b.mp3","310c.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:14:08","tapeEnd":"03:17:24","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Moorer, Thomas H. (Adm.)"],"prevCode":"310-028","nextCode":"310-030","tapeTranscriptFile":"310a.mp3,310b.mp3,310c.mp3","transcript":[{"start":11655.1,"end":11662.67,"text":"I think there's another briefcase there over in the Oval Office."},{"start":11787.6,"end":11788.75,"text":"Step over to you and me, please."},{"start":11790.29,"end":11790.47,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":11790.49,"end":11790.75,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":11791.37,"end":11791.91,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":11799.19,"end":11799.67,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":11800.17,"end":11800.39,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":11802.77,"end":11803.27,"text":"Fine."},{"start":11804.34,"end":11806.88,"text":"Merry Christmas to you."},{"start":11807.18,"end":11808.22,"text":"You have a good one."},{"start":11808.26,"end":11811.3,"text":"Hope you saw that game."},{"start":11812.3,"end":11813.32,"text":"Wasn't that fantastic?"},{"start":11814.4,"end":11815.92,"text":"That's probably the best one."},{"start":11815.96,"end":11831.37,"text":"I mean, while they're always the best, the only thing I do if I were to have them play off the roll, I think it's a mistake for them to have it in the sudden death thing because it makes it basically so unlike football and so conventional."},{"start":11831.39,"end":11833.51,"text":"Everybody plays it to save a pair of an error."},{"start":11833.93,"end":11840.44,"text":"They really ought to play a third quarter, a fifth quarter, and then they, you know, you have all the excitement of both teams going for broke again, you know."},{"start":11841.49,"end":11843.25,"text":"I think it might be working."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":11618.375,"end":11843.25,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Admiral Thomas H. Moorer engaged in a brief, informal exchange following the Christmas holiday. The conversation focused primarily on their mutual appreciation for a recent professional football game. No official policy decisions or strategic military matters were discussed during this interaction.","topics":["Football","Casual conversation","Thomas H. Moorer","Holiday greetings"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:26:14.129Z"},"topicSlugs":["football","casual-conversation","thomas-h-moorer","holiday-greetings"],"audioDurationSec":196,"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/310-029","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/310/conversation-310-029","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}