{"conversationCode":"322-042","tapeNumber":322,"conversationNumber":42,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-322-042","startDateTime":"1972-03-09T19:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-09T21:30:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Mar-1972","startTime":"2:40 PM","endDate":"9-Mar-1972","endTime":"4:30 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Manarin, Rosemary;","description":"On March 9, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rosemary Manarin met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 322-042 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. 322-42\n\nDate: March 9, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:40 pm and 4:30 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with an unknown person [Rose Mary Woods]\n\n     Taped memorandum to Henry A. Kissinger\n          -Distribution\n                -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman\n                      -Blind copy","filename":["322-042.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:16:04","tapeEnd":"02:17:21","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Manarin, Rosemary"],"prevCode":"322-041","nextCode":"322-043","transcript":[{"start":6.29,"end":17.21,"text":"I'm setting the table."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, to dictate a memorandum intended for National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. The primary purpose of the recording was to establish directives regarding the distribution of sensitive materials, including instructions to provide a blind copy to Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. This exchange served as a procedural step in managing the circulation of classified correspondence within the inner circle of the administration.","topics":["White House administration","Henry Kissinger","H. R. Haldeman","Rose Mary Woods","memorandum distribution","presidential procedures"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T15:01:02.925Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-administration","henry-kissinger","h-r-haldeman","rose-mary-woods","memorandum-distribution","presidential-procedures"],"audioDurationSec":18,"audioFiles":[{"file":"322-042.mp3","bytes":719726,"durationSec":17.85,"bitrate":322545,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.568Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/322-042.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/322-042","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/322/conversation-322-042","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}