{"conversationCode":"313-014","tapeNumber":313,"conversationNumber":14,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-313-014","startDateTime":"1972-01-10T19:58:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-01-10T20:00:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Jan-1972","startTime":"2:58 PM","endDate":"10-Jan-1972","endTime":"3:00 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Morton, Rogers C. B.;","description":"On January 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rogers C. B. Morton met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 2:58 pm to 3:00 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 313-014 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 313-14\n\nDate: January 10, 1972\nTime: 2:58 pm - 3:00 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with Rogers C. B. Morton.\n\n[See Conversation No. 18-108]","filename":["313-014.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:14:21","tapeEnd":"00:16:23","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Morton, Rogers C. B."],"prevCode":"313-013","nextCode":"313-015","transcript":[{"start":1.13,"end":29.63,"text":"She thought it was great, and I think it's a very good way for her to show the interest in that."},{"start":29.65,"end":30.63,"text":"And then at a later point, of course, after I had"},{"start":31.2,"end":57.56,"text":"I think we've"},{"start":57.96,"end":81.53,"text":"I think if you get there, maybe you and Russ Crane, and if you might, you, Russ Crane, and his group, maybe you just sort of follow up with the rest."},{"start":81.55,"end":82.03,"text":"John Irwin and the rest."},{"start":82.05,"end":85.28,"text":"I can't do anything, Brian, obviously, now that I'm trying to, because I'm now writing State of the Union, and I've got a good budget and all that kind of stuff."},{"start":85.3,"end":86.2,"text":"But then, April and May will be my time soon."},{"start":86.58,"end":105.61,"text":"You want to fill it in with good acne stuff."},{"start":105.63,"end":105.73,"text":"Good."},{"start":105.75,"end":106.63,"text":"We should put it in the residential library."},{"start":106.65,"end":108.73,"text":"That's scary."},{"start":108.75,"end":109.19,"text":"I'm there on it, yeah."},{"start":109.21,"end":110.01,"text":"Yeah, but maybe it would be a good idea."},{"start":110.81,"end":111.29,"text":"That's a very good idea."},{"start":111.31,"end":111.41,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":111.43,"end":111.65,"text":"Good deal."},{"start":111.67,"end":114.36,"text":"Fine, fine."},{"start":114.38,"end":115.34,"text":"Okay, you're doing all right otherwise, huh?"},{"start":115.36,"end":115.46,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":115.48,"end":115.76,"text":"Good behavior."},{"start":115.78,"end":116.22,"text":"Okay, no choice, okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. Morton coordinate follow-up efforts involving John Irwin and Russ Crane regarding ongoing departmental interests. The discussion touches upon the scheduling of future administrative priorities in light of the President's current focus on drafting the State of the Union address and the federal budget. The two briefly deliberate on the placement of materials in the presidential library before concluding with a lighthearted exchange regarding Morton's professional conduct.","topics":["State of the Union","Federal budget","Presidential library","Department of the Interior","Administrative planning"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:37:08.467Z"},"topicSlugs":["state-of-the-union","federal-budget","presidential-library","department-of-the-interior","administrative-planning"],"audioDurationSec":119,"audioFiles":[{"file":"313-014.mp3","bytes":4751987,"durationSec":118.65,"bitrate":320405,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.278Z","transcriptGapSeconds":74,"transcriptGapShare":0.62,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/313-014.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/313-014","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/313/conversation-313-014","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}