{"conversationCode":"341-019","tapeNumber":341,"conversationNumber":19,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-341-019","startDateTime":"1972-06-11T14:20:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-06-11T14:41:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Jun-1972","startTime":"10:20 AM","endDate":"11-Jun-1972","endTime":"10:41 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On June 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 10:20 am and 10:41 am. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 341-019 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. 341-19\n\nDate: June 11, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 10:20 and 10:41 am.\nLocation: Old Executive Office Building\n\nThe President dictated a memorandum.\n\n*****************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 10/16/2019.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[341-019-w001]\n[Duration: 40s]\n\n     Memorandum\n              -News column\n\n*****************************************************************","filename":["341-019-splice.mp3"],"tapeStart":"05:02:07","tapeEnd":"05:02:47","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"341-018","nextCode":"341-020","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon dictated a memorandum in his office, referencing a news column. The conversation, captured by the OEOB taping system, involved Nixon alone and focused on a news item concerning a boat and a \"capsule.\" Nixon expressed frustration with how information was being presented and the need to verify facts, indicating a desire to alter or correct the narrative based on available evidence.","topics":["Presidential memorandum","News column","Information control","Fact verification","Media criticism","Boat incident"],"generatedAt":"2026-10-27T14:58:48.035Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-memorandum","news-column","information-control","fact-verification","media-criticism","boat-incident"],"audioDurationSec":43,"audioFiles":[{"file":"341-019-splice.mp3","bytes":686844,"durationSec":43,"bitrate":127792,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-10-27T08:05:04.453Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:23.288Z","originalFilename":["341a.mp3","341b.mp3","341c.mp3"],"spliceSource":{"spliceType":"bigtape","sourceFiles":["341b.mp3"],"cutStart":7867.5,"cutEnd":7910.5,"adjustedStart":7867.5,"adjustedEnd":7910.5,"boundaryMethod":"llm-alignment","confidence":"medium","splicedAt":"2026-10-27T08:05:04.453Z"},"transcript":[{"start":7867.5,"end":7884.5,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"[unintelligible] it was a capsule for this. Nobody said the capsule had not been put [unintelligible] aboard. I went into [unintelligible] how do they know? Because we had [unintelligible] the boat. Now, the question is, why they didn't bring [unintelligible] the boat back? That [unintelligible] all [unintelligible] Now, some of them mentioned [unintelligible] from the boat. [unintelligible]"},{"start":7884.5,"end":7909.5,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"The only naive, this is a reference book, and I'm not sure which. It could be send a referral to a [unintelligible] rest of this country will leave the south part of this country [unintelligible] Well, I am- We do a lot of good things. I know the facts and every single piece of writing I get, one must alter. For more evidence, we'll get the rest of this [unintelligible] anything that we've"}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":18266,"end":18310,"startMethod":"llm-alignment","endMethod":"llm-alignment"},"transcriptConfidence":"medium","transcriptSource":"audio-llm","transcriptCreatedAt":"2026-10-27T14:46:54.437Z","transcriptModel":"google/gemini-3.8-flash","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/341-019-splice.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/341-019","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/341/conversation-341-019","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}