{"conversationCode":"380-021","tapeNumber":380,"conversationNumber":21,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-380-021","startDateTime":"1972-12-28T17:39:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-28T19:20:00.000Z","startDate":"28-Dec-1972","startTime":"12:39 PM","endDate":"28-Dec-1972","endTime":"2:20 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On December 28, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 12:39 pm and 2:20 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 380-021 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"EOB","recordingDevice":"Old Executive Office Building","latitudeEstimated":38.897567,"longitudeEstimated":-77.039147,"chronCode":"5.2","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part II","chronReleaseDate":"2-Dec-2008","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 380-21\n\nDate: December 28, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:39 pm and 2:20 pm\nLocation: Executive Office Building\n\nThe President dictated a memorandum to H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.\n\n       1972 campaign\n            -Instruction for Haldeman’s staff\n                  -Maurice H. Stans’ list of contributors\n                         -Finance committee\n                         -Business Council\n\f                                           -31-\n\n                  NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                            Conversation No. 380-43 (cont’d)","filename":["380-021.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"380-020","nextCode":"380-022","transcript":[{"start":0.17,"end":23.57,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon dictated a memorandum to Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman regarding the post-mortem of the 1972 presidential campaign. He specifically requested that Haldeman’s staff organize and manage the donor lists compiled by Maurice Stans and the Finance Committee. The President sought to leverage these records from the business community and the Business Council to inform future political operations.","topics":["1972 presidential campaign","H.R. Haldeman","Maurice Stans","Campaign finance","Donor lists","Political strategy"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T17:37:21.650Z"},"topicSlugs":["1972-presidential-campaign","h-r-haldeman","maurice-stans","campaign-finance","donor-lists","political-strategy"],"audioDurationSec":28,"audioFiles":[{"file":"380-021.mp3","bytes":682098,"durationSec":28.28,"bitrate":192955,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:44.876Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:43:30.082Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/380-021.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/380-021","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/380/conversation-380-021","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}