{"conversationCode":"336-045","tapeNumber":336,"conversationNumber":45,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-336-045","startDateTime":"1972-05-08T21:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-08T22:09:00.000Z","startDate":"8-May-1972","startTime":"5:55 PM","endDate":"8-May-1972","endTime":"6:09 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On May 8, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 5:55 pm and 6:09 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 336-045 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. 336-45\n\nDate: May 8, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 5:55 and 6:09 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President rehearsed his “Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia”.\n\n[This is a continuation of Conversation No. 336-34]\n\n[See Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 583-587]","filename":["336a.mp3","336b.mp3","336c.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:22:08","tapeEnd":"02:26:48","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"336-044","nextCode":"336-046","tapeTranscriptFile":"336a.mp3,336b.mp3,336c.mp3","transcript":[{"start":8648.12,"end":8657.49,"text":"You know, on the cabinet meeting and the convention, I don't think I ought to do it any much more than to come in and spend ten minutes with somebody else free."},{"start":8657.65,"end":8665.4,"text":"You know, for me to sit around and be jacked, because I'll be rather tired, and I won't have any change going on."},{"start":8665.42,"end":8670.14,"text":"Instead, I'll just spend, I'll just turn over the mower on another street, and I'll leave."},{"start":8670.3,"end":8671.62,"text":"That's what I should do."},{"start":8671.64,"end":8671.72,"text":"Okay."},{"start":8679.87,"end":8680.33,"text":"All right."},{"start":8680.41,"end":8680.69,"text":"All right."},{"start":8709.57,"end":8709.93,"text":"I'm not hurt."},{"start":8780.33,"end":8780.91,"text":"Thank you."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":8594.375,"end":8808,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"tape_time"},"transcriptConfidence":"low","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a working session to rehearse his upcoming televised address regarding the escalating situation in Southeast Asia. The conversation focused on managing the President's schedule and physical exhaustion leading up to the speech and surrounding public engagements. Nixon decided to limit his involvement in cabinet meetings and conventions to brief appearances to conserve energy for his national broadcast.","topics":["Southeast Asia","Public relations","Presidential scheduling","Speech rehearsal","Vietnam War"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T15:52:37.179Z"},"topicSlugs":["southeast-asia","public-relations","presidential-scheduling","speech-rehearsal","vietnam-war"],"audioDurationSec":280,"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/336-045","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/336/conversation-336-045","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}