{"conversationCode":"335-024","tapeNumber":335,"conversationNumber":24,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-335-024","startDateTime":"1972-05-03T20:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-03T21:10:00.000Z","startDate":"3-May-1972","startTime":"4:55 PM","endDate":"3-May-1972","endTime":"5:10 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Andrews, John K., Jr.;","description":"On May 3, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and John K. Andrews, Jr. met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building from 4:55 pm to 5:10 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 335-024 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. 335-24\n\nDate: May 3, 1972\nTime: 4:55-5:10 pm.\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President met with John K. Andrews, Jr.\n\n     J. Edgar Hoover eulogy\n          -Remarks by Warren E. Burger\n                -Andrews's review\n          -President's remarks\n                -Invocation of diety\n                -Changes\n                -Hoover's tenure at the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]\n                -Law and order references\n                -Hoover's respect for law\n                -Draft\n                      -Copy to Rose Mary Woods\n                -Andrews's work\n\n     President's previous address to the Nation on Vietnam\n\nAndrews left at 5:10 pm.","filename":["335a.mp3","335b.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:28:33","tapeEnd":"02:32:22","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Andrews, John K., Jr."],"prevCode":"335-023","nextCode":"335-025","tapeTranscriptFile":"335a.mp3,335b.mp3","transcript":[{"start":8991.1,"end":8996.89,"text":"Did Chief Justice get over to the county field?"},{"start":8996.95,"end":8998.15,"text":"Yes sir, he did."},{"start":9026.87,"end":9033.64,"text":"You know, you customarily don't invoke the name of God or quote the Bible, but I think in this setting at the end of this book, that's very important."},{"start":9033.66,"end":9041.84,"text":"God shall say, I'm not going to quote the name of God."},{"start":9041.9,"end":9048.91,"text":"You're going to say, I'm not going to quote the name of God."},{"start":9049.68,"end":9054.58,"text":"I think that it would be well to moderate that a little bit."},{"start":9054.66,"end":9067.91,"text":"You might say, rather I would predict that that era, an era of the finest in law enforcement, will continue as it do."},{"start":9070.89,"end":9072.94,"text":"It's useful to define what era we mean by."},{"start":9120.97,"end":9123.85,"text":"Yes."},{"start":9123.95,"end":9131.23,"text":"I wonder if the last sentence should be sustained."},{"start":9131.25,"end":9132.31,"text":"Yes, that makes sense."},{"start":9132.39,"end":9132.77,"text":"Okay."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":8882.625,"end":9142.875,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence+findingaid"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and speechwriter John K. Andrews, Jr. met to revise the President's upcoming eulogy for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Nixon provided specific editorial guidance, emphasizing the need to moderate religious references and refine the framing of Hoover’s legacy regarding law and order. The discussion focused on finalizing the draft, with the President instructing that a corrected copy be sent to his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods.","topics":["J. Edgar Hoover","Eulogy","Speechwriting","FBI","Law and Order","Presidential rhetoric"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T15:47:34.681Z"},"topicSlugs":["j-edgar-hoover","eulogy","speechwriting","fbi","law-and-order","presidential-rhetoric"],"audioDurationSec":229,"audioFiles":[{"file":"335a.mp3","bytes":116918127,"durationSec":7325.76,"bitrate":127678,"missing":false},{"file":"335b.mp3","bytes":112121805,"durationSec":7024.3,"bitrate":127695,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.908Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/335a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/335b.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/335-024","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/335/conversation-335-024","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}