{"conversationCode":"318-031","tapeNumber":318,"conversationNumber":31,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-318-031","startDateTime":"1972-02-02T20:06:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-02T20:17:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Feb-1972","startTime":"3:06 PM","endDate":"2-Feb-1972","endTime":"3:17 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Lewis, Hobart D.;","description":"On February 2, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Hobart D. Lewis met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:06 pm and 3:17 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 318-031 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. 318-31\n\nDate: February 2, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 3:06 pm and 3:17 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\nThe President dictated a letter to Hobart D. Lewis.\n\n     Republican Governors dinner, January 28, 1972\n         -The President's conversation with William T. Cahill of New Jersey\n               -Article in Reader's Digest\n\n[Continued as Conversation No. 318-33]","filename":["318-031.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:43:58","tapeEnd":"02:44:27","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Lewis, Hobart D."],"prevCode":"318-030","nextCode":"318-032","transcript":[{"start":0.13,"end":22.99,"text":"I'm Louis Deerholt, and probably the Governor of Decatur, and the Republican, and I've interviewed Republican Governors to light up last night."},{"start":23.01,"end":26.38,"text":"I suppose it would be great to hear about an article that you've written about this, just a little over a year ago, which was a documentary of the Governor of Deerholt."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Hobart D. Lewis to dictate a letter regarding a recent Republican Governors dinner held on January 28, 1972. The discussion centered on Nixon’s interaction with New Jersey Governor William T. Cahill and a previously published article in Reader's Digest. This meeting served to facilitate correspondence regarding the political landscape and media coverage surrounding the Republican leadership.","topics":["Republican Governors Association","William T. Cahill","Reader's Digest","Political correspondence","Public relations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:48:47.999Z"},"topicSlugs":["republican-governors-association","william-t-cahill","readers-digest","political-correspondence","public-relations"],"audioDurationSec":29,"audioFiles":[{"file":"318-031.mp3","bytes":1162778,"durationSec":28.93,"bitrate":321536,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.568Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/318-031.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/318-031","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/318/conversation-318-031","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}