{"conversationCode":"476-016","tapeNumber":476,"conversationNumber":16,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-476-016","startDateTime":"1971-04-09T18:33:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-09T18:33:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Apr-1971","startTime":"1:33 PM","endDate":"9-Apr-1971","endTime":"1:33 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;","description":"On April 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger met in the Oval Office of the White House at 1:33 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 476-016 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 476-16\n\nDate: April 9, 1971\nTime: 1:33 pm - 1:35 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Henry A. Kissinger\n\n     Kissinger’s schedule\n          -David Brinkley\n\n     President’s schedule\n          -Meeting with General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and David M. Kennedy\n          -Kissinger’s meeting about Pakistan\n           -Time\n           -Good Friday services\n     Kissinger’s schedule\n           -Brinkley\n\nKissinger left at 1:35 pm","filename":["476-016.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:43:24","tapeEnd":"04:47:03","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Kissinger, Henry A."],"prevCode":"476-015","nextCode":"476-017","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":6.97,"text":"Why, Mr. President, I've got to take a drink with my office."},{"start":6.99,"end":8.33,"text":"I wonder whether I could wind it up at 10 o'clock in the afternoon."},{"start":8.36,"end":8.46,"text":"Sure."},{"start":8.99,"end":22.57,"text":"You wouldn't call for me earlier, would you?"},{"start":22.59,"end":26.9,"text":"Well, why don't you stay?"},{"start":26.92,"end":27.5,"text":"No, I got taken from Kennedy."},{"start":27.52,"end":28.49,"text":"Oh, yeah, because I had a meeting on Pakistan."},{"start":28.51,"end":29.05,"text":"Yeah, so stay at 2 o'clock."},{"start":29.07,"end":29.43,"text":"I'll be here at 2."},{"start":29.45,"end":29.91,"text":"2 o'clock, that's fine."},{"start":29.93,"end":30.55,"text":"I have to go to church at 2.30."},{"start":30.57,"end":31.21,"text":"Well, I'll be here at 8 o'clock."},{"start":31.23,"end":32.54,"text":"I'll be here a little bit more than that."},{"start":32.56,"end":33.92,"text":"Breakbeat is going to be hard, so... Well, that's what I thought."},{"start":33.94,"end":35.19,"text":"I didn't want to..."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and Henry Kissinger met briefly to coordinate their respective daily schedules and upcoming appointments. They discussed timing adjustments for meetings involving General Alexander Haig, David M. Kennedy, and policy deliberations concerning Pakistan. Ultimately, the two agreed to reconvene later in the afternoon to accommodate Kissinger's attendance at Good Friday services.","topics":["Scheduling","Pakistan","Henry Kissinger","Alexander Haig","David M. Kennedy","Diplomacy"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-06T21:38:27.031Z"},"topicSlugs":["scheduling","pakistan","henry-kissinger","alexander-haig","david-m-kennedy","diplomacy"],"audioDurationSec":35,"audioFiles":[{"file":"476-016.mp3","bytes":845112,"durationSec":35.14,"bitrate":192421,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:48.989Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/476-016.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/476-016","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/476/conversation-476-016","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}