{"conversationCode":"336-062","tapeNumber":336,"conversationNumber":62,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-336-062","startDateTime":"1972-05-08T22:34:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-08T23:14:00.000Z","startDate":"8-May-1972","startTime":"6:34 PM","endDate":"8-May-1972","endTime":"7:14 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 6:34 pm and 7:14 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 336-062 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. 336-62\n\nDate: May 8, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 6:34 and 7:14 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]\n\n                                        (rev. Nov-01)","filename":["336a.mp3","336b.mp3","336c.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:12:59","tapeEnd":"03:13:34","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"336-061","nextCode":"336-063","tapeTranscriptFile":"336a.mp3,336b.mp3,336c.mp3","transcript":[{"start":11579,"end":11580.75,"text":"Otherwise, the cause of peace, the cause to which we both have so great a stand,"},{"start":11581.81,"end":11585.09,"text":"to be seriously objectified."},{"start":11585.19,"end":11590.75,"text":"Our two nations have made significant progress in our negotiations in recent months."},{"start":11590.77,"end":11595.56,"text":"We are here made to agree on what we are on as a nation, trade and coastal ambitions."},{"start":11595.58,"end":11599.32,"text":"Let us not slide back through the dark and shadows of the previous age."},{"start":11599.34,"end":11607.99,"text":"We do not ask you to sacrifice your principles or your friends, but neither should you permit analyzing pathogens that lot of the prospects weaved together as so patiently prepared."},{"start":11609.69,"end":11611.27,"text":"We are on the threshold of a new relationship"},{"start":11612.58,"end":11614,"text":"I ask you for the same strong support you have always given your president and your colleagues."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":11579,"end":11614,"startMethod":"tape_time","endMethod":"tape_time"},"transcriptConfidence":"low","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Richard M. Nixon utilized this session to rehearse his upcoming televised address regarding the ongoing crisis in Southeast Asia. The President practiced delivery techniques and refined rhetoric aimed at maintaining public support for his administration's foreign policy objectives. This preparation served to formalize the language he would use to justify his strategic decisions and appeal for national unity.","topics":["Vietnam War","Public Address","Foreign Policy","Speechwriting","Southeast Asia"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T15:54:13.745Z"},"topicSlugs":["vietnam-war","public-address","foreign-policy","speechwriting","southeast-asia"],"audioDurationSec":35,"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":"2026-09-18T02:19:41.909Z","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/336-062","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/336/conversation-336-062","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}