{"conversationCode":"319-001","tapeNumber":319,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-319-001","startDateTime":"1972-02-07T19:04:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-07T20:04:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Feb-1972","startTime":"2:04 PM","endDate":"7-Feb-1972","endTime":"3:04 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\");","description":"On February 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:04 pm and 3:04 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 319-001 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. 319-1\n\nDate: February 7, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:04 pm and 3:04 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.\n\n     Foreign policy document\n          -William L. Safire\n          -Number of words\n          -Henry A. Kissinger\n                -Need for more words\n                     -Number\n                     -Compared with Kissinger’s draft","filename":["319-001.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:00:55","tapeEnd":"00:03:07","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\")"],"prevCode":"318-039","nextCode":"319-002","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":18.87,"text":"I'm going to relent a little on the former policy thing."},{"start":18.89,"end":27.36,"text":"And I'd like for Sapphire to make it exactly $1,500."},{"start":27.38,"end":28.12,"text":"In other words, make about $200 more."},{"start":28.14,"end":28.2,"text":"OK?"},{"start":28.22,"end":28.62,"text":"He's got $1,250 now."},{"start":28.64,"end":28.96,"text":"No, what was it?"},{"start":28.98,"end":29.22,"text":"What was it?"},{"start":29.24,"end":29.5,"text":"About $1,700."},{"start":30.14,"end":44.6,"text":"Just say, put it this way, he can, because he hasn't been able to get this cleared by him, you see, they want to put some more in there."},{"start":44.62,"end":52.81,"text":"So why don't you just say that he needs 200, put it this way, he needs 200 more words, 250 more words."},{"start":52.85,"end":59.1,"text":"Try to, I'd like to, you see, let me put it this way, I don't want to screw around having to, you know, argue about it, see."},{"start":59.53,"end":78.32,"text":"So tell him that if he can put 250 more words, that takes him actually to 1,500."},{"start":78.34,"end":78.46,"text":"Right?"},{"start":78.48,"end":78.58,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":78.6,"end":79.72,"text":"You see, 1,250 plus 250 equals 1,500."},{"start":79.74,"end":82.6,"text":"Henry's was 1,700, or whatever it was."},{"start":82.62,"end":84.88,"text":"I think it was something like that."},{"start":84.9,"end":85.83,"text":"Just say 1,500, not a word over."},{"start":85.84,"end":87.01,"text":"And if he can work it out, I won't read this one."},{"start":87.03,"end":87.45,"text":"Get that to add 250."},{"start":88.17,"end":90.25,"text":"about the 1,500 and 7,000, okay?"},{"start":91.15,"end":91.23,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon directed H. R. Haldeman to instruct speechwriter William Safire to expand a foreign policy document by 250 words to reach a total length of 1,500 words. Nixon expressed a desire to avoid further administrative friction regarding the draft, noting that the length should remain strictly at the 1,500-word limit to align closer to Henry Kissinger’s original submission. The President stipulated that once this adjustment was made, he would finalize the document without further revisions.","topics":["William Safire","Foreign Policy","Speechwriting","Henry Kissinger","White House Administration"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T14:49:38.702Z"},"topicSlugs":["william-safire","foreign-policy","speechwriting","henry-kissinger","white-house-administration"],"audioDurationSec":93,"audioFiles":[{"file":"319-001.mp3","bytes":3720673,"durationSec":92.87,"bitrate":320489,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.567Z","transcriptGapSeconds":38,"transcriptGapShare":0.4,"transcriptQuality":"incomplete","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/319-001.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/319-001","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/319/conversation-319-001","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}