{"conversationCode":"324-034","tapeNumber":324,"conversationNumber":34,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-324-034","startDateTime":"1972-03-22T20:24:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-22T20:29:00.000Z","startDate":"22-Mar-1972","startTime":"3:24 PM","endDate":"22-Mar-1972","endTime":"3:29 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Sanchez, Manolo;","description":"On March 22, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Manolo Sanchez met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 3:24 pm to 3:29 pm. 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(President)","Colson, Charles W.","Sanchez, Manolo"],"prevCode":"324-033","nextCode":"324-035","transcript":[{"start":2.54,"end":3.09,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":7.77,"end":22,"text":"Well, the old man walked off."},{"start":22.02,"end":25.44,"text":"The thing shows that the person is too blind."},{"start":25.46,"end":27.71,"text":"We've got to hit him hard every day we can."},{"start":27.73,"end":28.37,"text":"Use words like sabotage for men."},{"start":28.84,"end":48.43,"text":"Food representing only a small percentage of the 80 million American workers."},{"start":48.45,"end":48.85,"text":"We've got to get it."},{"start":48.87,"end":48.97,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":49.05,"end":49.71,"text":"We've got to get it now, quickly."},{"start":71.83,"end":81.79,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":89.4,"end":89.52,"text":"Right."},{"start":89.54,"end":89.7,"text":"Got him."},{"start":89.72,"end":90.17,"text":"Covered both."},{"start":93.63,"end":93.73,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":93.75,"end":93.85,"text":"Look."},{"start":93.87,"end":93.97,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":93.99,"end":94.15,"text":"Got him."},{"start":94.17,"end":94.33,"text":"Got him."},{"start":113.48,"end":141.27,"text":"We have to make it appear wrong."},{"start":141.29,"end":142.53,"text":"But that's just an aberration of what we're going to do now."},{"start":144.8,"end":164.04,"text":"We've got to have something to say about the food crisis."},{"start":164.06,"end":164.49,"text":"We've got to breathe."},{"start":164.51,"end":165.31,"text":"The person on this flight don't need it."},{"start":165.33,"end":166.15,"text":"It's very much the public side of things."},{"start":166.17,"end":166.81,"text":"People want food crisis control."},{"start":166.83,"end":167.87,"text":"They don't need to go out and have fun with markets."},{"start":167.89,"end":168.49,"text":"They don't need to be tied up."},{"start":168.51,"end":168.81,"text":"They can't run."},{"start":168.83,"end":169.83,"text":"They've got to do better than that side of things."},{"start":169.85,"end":170.69,"text":"Before that, the show was a little insane."},{"start":170.71,"end":172.07,"text":"All these people who want food crisis, they don't know how to do it."},{"start":173.51,"end":199.74,"text":"Good, good."},{"start":200.12,"end":200.54,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Charles W. Colson discussed a strategic media offensive intended to aggressively discredit political opponents regarding a perceived food crisis. The President instructed Colson to frame the administration's narrative using inflammatory language like \"sabotage\" to sway public opinion and deflect blame. The meeting focused on consolidating a unified, critical message to exploit the public's anxieties about market instability for political gain.","topics":["Political Strategy","Food Crisis","Media Manipulation","Public Relations","Campaign Rhetoric"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T15:08:57.036Z"},"topicSlugs":["political-strategy","food-crisis","media-manipulation","public-relations","campaign-rhetoric"],"audioDurationSec":205,"audioFiles":[{"file":"324-034.mp3","bytes":8202240,"durationSec":204.93,"bitrate":320197,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.568Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/324-034.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/324-034","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/324/conversation-324-034","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}