{"conversationCode":"628-004","tapeNumber":628,"conversationNumber":4,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-628-004","startDateTime":"1971-12-02T17:15:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-12-02T17:17:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Dec-1971","startTime":"12:15 PM","endDate":"2-Dec-1971","endTime":"12:17 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Bennett, Frances (Grant);","description":"On December 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Frances (Grant) Bennett met in the Oval Office of the White House from 12:15 pm to 12:17 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 628-004 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 628-4\n\nDate: December 2, 1971\nTime: 12:15 pm - 12:17 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with Frances (Grant) [Mrs. Wallace F.] Bennett.\n\n[See Conversation No. 15-198]","filename":["628-004.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:45:42","tapeEnd":"00:46:28","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Bennett, Frances (Grant)"],"prevCode":"628-003","nextCode":"628-005","transcript":[{"start":7.68,"end":8.04,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":13.22,"end":13.64,"text":"Hello."},{"start":14.96,"end":15.66,"text":"I just called."},{"start":15.7,"end":16.66,"text":"Wake Wally the best."},{"start":16.79,"end":19.09,"text":"I know he's not in surgery, so you tell him to get out of there."},{"start":19.13,"end":20.05,"text":"We need him."},{"start":20.13,"end":20.71,"text":"We need him."},{"start":21.87,"end":22.05,"text":"Huh?"},{"start":22.79,"end":23.71,"text":"Yeah, I know."},{"start":23.85,"end":25.69,"text":"It's that ulcer again, huh?"},{"start":27.57,"end":32.2,"text":"Yeah, well, those things, one thing about them, they're painful, but never, never a fatal thing."},{"start":35.12,"end":35.89,"text":"Okay, slow."},{"start":35.93,"end":38.16,"text":"All right, he'll be all right."},{"start":38.18,"end":40.72,"text":"He'll be all right."},{"start":40.77,"end":41.12,"text":"All right."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met briefly with Frances Bennett to inquire about the health of her husband, Senator Wallace F. Bennett, who was hospitalized due to an ulcer. Expressing a personal and political need for the Senator's return to work, Nixon offered words of encouragement regarding his recovery. The discussion served as a gesture of support during the Senator's medical absence.","topics":["Wallace F. Bennett","Health","Personal relations","Senate","U.S. Congress"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T01:19:00.733Z"},"topicSlugs":["wallace-f-bennett","health","personal-relations","senate","u-s-congress"],"audioDurationSec":41,"audioFiles":[{"file":"628-004.mp3","bytes":1663265,"durationSec":41.44,"bitrate":321131,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:51.997Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/628-004.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/628-004","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/628/conversation-628-004","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}