{"conversationCode":"336-055","tapeNumber":336,"conversationNumber":55,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-336-055","startDateTime":"1972-05-08T22:14:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-08T22:22:00.000Z","startDate":"8-May-1972","startTime":"6:14 PM","endDate":"8-May-1972","endTime":"6:22 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 6:14 pm and 6:22 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 336-055 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. 336-55\n\nDate: May 8, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 6:19 and 6:22 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President rehearsed his “Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia”.\n\n[See Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon, 1972, pp. 583-587]","filename":["336-055-splice.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:38:25","tapeEnd":"02:39:09","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"336-054","nextCode":"336-056","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon utilized this session to rehearse his upcoming televised address regarding the status of the Vietnam War. This preparation focused on refining his rhetoric and delivery to effectively communicate administration policy to the American public. The brief meeting served as a final executive review before the formal announcement of his administration’s strategy in Southeast Asia.","topics":["Vietnam War","Public speaking","Foreign policy","Southeast Asia","Address to the Nation"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T15:53:33.913Z"},"topicSlugs":["vietnam-war","public-speaking","foreign-policy","southeast-asia","address-to-the-nation"],"audioDurationSec":47,"audioFiles":[{"file":"336-055-splice.mp3","bytes":751062,"durationSec":47.02,"bitrate":127784,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-10-27T04:37:46.838Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:22.412Z","originalFilename":["336a.mp3","336b.mp3","336c.mp3"],"spliceSource":{"spliceType":"bigtape","sourceFiles":["336b.mp3"],"cutStart":9503.5,"cutEnd":9550.5,"adjustedStart":9503.5,"adjustedEnd":9550.5,"boundaryMethod":"llm-alignment","confidence":"high","splicedAt":"2026-10-27T04:37:46.838Z"},"transcript":[{"start":9522.52,"end":9524.22,"text":"It is you, most of all, who will be watching."},{"start":9524.38,"end":9525.6,"text":"I know that you want to end this war."},{"start":9525.62,"end":9527.12,"text":"I know how much you want to regret it."},{"start":9527.14,"end":9527.58,"text":"I can do no more."},{"start":9527.6,"end":9531.66,"text":"All that I have said and done in this past three and a half years, I will try to do my end to war right now."},{"start":9531.72,"end":9532.48,"text":"You want peace."},{"start":9532.52,"end":9533.02,"text":"I want peace."},{"start":9533.04,"end":9534.6,"text":"But you also want honor, not defeat."},{"start":9534.66,"end":9539.44,"text":"You want a gentle peace, not a peace that is merely a praise to the other world."},{"start":9539.7,"end":9541.6,"text":"At this moment, we must stand together in courage."},{"start":9549.25,"end":9553.69,"text":"And so often in the past, we Americans did not choose to serve in forced amounts."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":9505,"end":9549,"startMethod":"llm-alignment","endMethod":"llm-alignment"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/336-055-splice.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/336-055","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/336/conversation-336-055","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}