{"conversationCode":"708-008","tapeNumber":708,"conversationNumber":8,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-708-008","startDateTime":"1972-04-13T21:34:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-04-13T21:37:00.000Z","startDate":"13-Apr-1972","startTime":"4:34 PM","endDate":"13-Apr-1972","endTime":"4:37 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On April 13, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 4:34 pm and 4:37 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 708-008 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. 708-8\n\nDate: April 13, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 4:34 pm and 4:37 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President resumed rehearsing French portions of a speech for his Canadian trip.\n\n       Speech\n\n            -Rehearsal in French\n                 -The President's greetings upon his arrival in Ottawa","filename":["708a.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:29:48","tapeEnd":"00:30:09","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"708-007","nextCode":"708-009","tapeTranscriptFile":"708a.mp3","transcript":[{"start":1794.3,"end":1799.88,"text":"Okay, I have taken out that one sentence."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":1793.5,"end":1812,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon utilized this session to rehearse the French-language opening remarks for his upcoming diplomatic visit to Canada. He focused specifically on refining his greetings upon arrival in Ottawa. The President confirmed a minor edit by removing a specific sentence from his prepared speech text.","topics":["Richard Nixon","Canada","diplomacy","speech rehearsal","French language","Ottawa"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T03:00:26.010Z"},"topicSlugs":["richard-nixon","canada","diplomacy","speech-rehearsal","french-language","ottawa"],"audioDurationSec":21,"audioFiles":[{"file":"708a.mp3","bytes":84716981,"durationSec":3529.8,"bitrate":192003,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:55.376Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/708a.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/708-008","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/708/conversation-708-008","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}