{"conversationCode":"666-001","tapeNumber":666,"conversationNumber":1,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-666-001","startDateTime":"1972-02-07T13:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-02-07T14:32:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Feb-1972","startTime":"8:55 AM","endDate":"7-Feb-1972","endTime":"9:32 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On February 7, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 8:55 am and 9:32 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 666-001 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":3,"chronRelease":"Third Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"28-Feb-2002","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 666-1\n\nDate: February 7, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 8:55 am and 9:32 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with an unknown person.\n\n     [Unintelligible]\n\nThe unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:32 am.","filename":["666-001-splice.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:00:24","tapeEnd":"00:15:27","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"665-012","nextCode":"666-002","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with an unidentified individual to discuss the ongoing Vietnam War negotiations. The conversation focused on North Vietnamese negotiator Xuan Thuy's recent statements to the press regarding prisoner exchanges. The unknown participant reported that Thuy indicated a refusal to exchange prisoners for troop withdrawals, effectively rejecting Senator Muskie's proposed plan. Nixon acknowledged that the plan had been \"shot down\" and that negotiations would continue.","topics":["Vietnam War","Xuan Thuy","prisoner exchange","troop withdrawal","Muskie plan","Paris Peace Talks"],"generatedAt":"2026-10-27T15:01:46.063Z"},"topicSlugs":["vietnam-war","xuan-thuy","prisoner-exchange","troop-withdrawals","muskie-plan","paris-peace-talks"],"audioDurationSec":906,"audioFiles":[{"file":"666-001-splice.mp3","bytes":21744789,"durationSec":906,"bitrate":192005,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-10-27T08:05:08.327Z","originalFilename":["666a.mp3","666b.mp3","666c.mp3"],"spliceSource":{"spliceType":"bigtape","sourceFiles":["666a.mp3"],"cutStart":969.5,"cutEnd":1875.5,"adjustedStart":969.5,"adjustedEnd":1875.5,"boundaryMethod":"llm-alignment","confidence":"medium","splicedAt":"2026-10-27T08:05:08.327Z"},"transcript":[{"start":969.5,"end":973.5,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Oh, how are you today?"},{"start":980.5,"end":998.5,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"On a follow up thing to yesterday with this Xuan Thuy thing, he got Xuan Thuy. Xuan Thuy said to the EOB press, he looks just right to cross examine. What Xuan Thuy said they said that they would exchange prisoners"},{"start":999.5,"end":1009.5,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"[unintelligible] all the prisoners. He argues that back in October [unintelligible] have recorded shots in October they did."},{"start":1009.5,"end":1010.5,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Yeah."},{"start":1010.5,"end":1018.5,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"That's plus. Now, on the other hand, in October, if you remember [unintelligible]"},{"start":1018.5,"end":1021.5,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"provided then they would"},{"start":1022.5,"end":1025.5,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"[unintelligible]"},{"start":1025.5,"end":1041.5,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"So, but he's saying now that the lead paragraph the lead thing is that now as of today, which is all that matters, not what would have been done in October, what would be done now. As of today they will not take a withdrawal for prisoners, period. So, Muskie's plan has been shot down."},{"start":1042.5,"end":1045.5,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Shot down. Now they negotiate it."},{"start":1046.5,"end":1050.5,"speaker":"Unknown","text":"Muskie says [unintelligible]"}],"transcriptCreatedAt":"2026-10-27T14:55:27.567Z","transcriptModel":"google/gemini-3.8-flash","transcriptSource":"audio-llm","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/666-001-splice.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/666-001","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/666/conversation-666-001","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}