{"conversationCode":"336-017","tapeNumber":336,"conversationNumber":17,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-336-017","startDateTime":"1972-05-08T19:59:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-08T20:13:00.000Z","startDate":"8-May-1972","startTime":"3:59 PM","endDate":"8-May-1972","endTime":"4:13 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On May 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 3:59 pm and 4:13 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 336-017 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. 336-17\n\nDate: May 8, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 3:59 and 4:13 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with Rose Mary Woods.\n\n     Vietnam\n          -President’s forthcoming speech on the blockade\n                -Final copy\n                     -Preparation\n                     -Wording\n                            -Changes","filename":["336a.mp3","336b.mp3","336c.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:40:20","tapeEnd":"01:42:29","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"336-016","nextCode":"336-018","tapeTranscriptFile":"336a.mp3,336b.mp3,336c.mp3","transcript":[{"start":6016.88,"end":6022.62,"text":"Otherwise, it appears that we're not going to give enough to the association."},{"start":6022.66,"end":6023.06,"text":"Okay."},{"start":6023.1,"end":6024.34,"text":"Well, tell Rose, I'll tell her."},{"start":6024.4,"end":6026.2,"text":"I'll tell her not to do the final copy."},{"start":6035.49,"end":6037.19,"text":"You had better hold your final copy."},{"start":6037.23,"end":6039.35,"text":"There'll be still..."},{"start":6041.92,"end":6044.64,"text":"Take this over."},{"start":6044.7,"end":6045.34,"text":"That's fine."},{"start":6045.82,"end":6046.04,"text":"Fine."},{"start":6046.22,"end":6052.75,"text":"I do have, I do have one that I can give you now."},{"start":6052.79,"end":6057.81,"text":"This is the cautionary version."},{"start":6057.85,"end":6061.66,"text":"This is the cautionary version."},{"start":6061.84,"end":6062.68,"text":"Very good."},{"start":6062.74,"end":6065.06,"text":"We shall continue."},{"start":6065.08,"end":6066.3,"text":"We shall continue."},{"start":6073.37,"end":6073.75,"text":"All right."},{"start":6164.85,"end":6165.85,"text":"Everything going all right?"}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":6016.875,"end":6169,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, met to finalize preparations for his upcoming televised address announcing the mining of North Vietnamese ports. The discussion centered on reviewing and refining the wording of the speech, specifically regarding the handling of the final draft. Nixon provided Woods with a 'cautionary version' of the document, directing her to hold the final copy as they continued to adjust the rhetoric.","topics":["Vietnam War","Nixon speech","Naval blockade","Rose Mary Woods","Presidential communication"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T15:49:58.251Z"},"topicSlugs":["vietnam-war","nixon-speech","naval-blockade","rose-mary-woods","presidential-communication"],"audioDurationSec":129,"audioFiles":[{"file":"336a.mp3","bytes":118106903,"durationSec":7399.18,"bitrate":127697,"missing":false},{"file":"336b.mp3","bytes":117742978,"durationSec":7375.91,"bitrate":127705,"missing":false},{"file":"336c.mp3","bytes":51899404,"durationSec":3251.1,"bitrate":127709,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.908Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/336a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/336b.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/336c.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/336-017","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/336/conversation-336-017","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}