{"conversationCode":"333-029","tapeNumber":333,"conversationNumber":29,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-333-029","startDateTime":"1972-04-26T22:16:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-26T22:50:00.000Z","startDate":"26-Apr-1972","startTime":"5:16 PM","endDate":"26-Apr-1972","endTime":"5:50 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On April 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:16 pm and 5:50 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 333-029 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. 333-29\n\nDate: April 26, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 5:16 pm and 5:50 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President rehearsed a speech.\n\n       [A transcript of the final broadcast of this speech appears\n       in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States,1972, pp. 550-554.]\n\nThe President answered the phone at an unknown time between 5:16 and 5:50 pm.\n\n       [Conversation No. 333-29A]\n\n       [Mistaken connection?]","filename":["333-029.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:35:39","tapeEnd":"03:36:29","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"333-028","nextCode":"333-030","transcript":[{"start":0.23,"end":8.35,"text":"Good evening, my fellow Americans."},{"start":8.37,"end":10.56,"text":"During the last three weeks, we've been reading and hearing about the massive invasion of South Vietnam."},{"start":10.58,"end":10.7,"text":"Hello."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon utilized this session to rehearse his upcoming televised address regarding the intensified North Vietnamese invasion of South Vietnam. The recording captures the President practicing his rhetoric intended to justify the administration's military response to the recent enemy offensive. Following the rehearsal, Nixon briefly took an incoming telephone call, though the conversation appears to have been a mistaken connection.","topics":["Vietnam War","Speechwriting","Public relations","Military strategy","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T15:39:41.211Z"},"topicSlugs":["vietnam-war","speechwriting","public-relations","military-strategy","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":11,"audioFiles":[{"file":"333-029.mp3","bytes":433424,"durationSec":10.7,"bitrate":324196,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.907Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/333-029.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/333-029","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/333/conversation-333-029","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}