{"conversationCode":"349-008","tapeNumber":349,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-349-008","startDateTime":"1972-07-20T18:47:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-07-20T19:02:00.000Z","startDate":"20-Jul-1972","startTime":"2:47 PM","endDate":"20-Jul-1972","endTime":"3:02 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On July 20, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 2:47 pm and 3:02 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 349-008 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":4,"chronRelease":"Fourth Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"10-Dec-2003","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 349-8\n\nDate: July 20, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 2:47 pm and 3:02 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President talked with an unknown person.\n\n     Book on great speeches","filename":["349-008.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"349-007","nextCode":"349-009","transcript":[{"start":0.64,"end":7.12,"text":"Did you find that great speeches book?"},{"start":7.14,"end":7.84,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":7.86,"end":10.63,"text":"If you didn't, I'm gonna try to remember the name."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon consults with an unidentified staff member regarding the location of a specific book containing notable historical speeches. The conversation serves as a brief inquiry into the status of this resource, which Nixon intended to identify if the staff member had not yet located it. No further policy or substantive matters were addressed during this short exchange.","topics":["Presidential library","Speechwriting","Research materials","Historical documents"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T16:28:26.885Z"},"topicSlugs":["presidential-library","speechwriting","research-materials","historical-documents"],"audioDurationSec":16,"audioFiles":[{"file":"349-008.mp3","bytes":393089,"durationSec":16.32,"bitrate":192690,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:44.539Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/349-008.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/349-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/349/conversation-349-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}