{"conversationCode":"719-003","tapeNumber":719,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-719-003","startDateTime":"1972-05-04T12:58:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-04T13:02:00.000Z","startDate":"4-May-1972","startTime":"8:58 AM","endDate":"4-May-1972","endTime":"9:02 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On May 4, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and unknown person(s) met in the Oval Office of the White House from 8:58 am to 9:02 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 719-003 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. 719-3\n\nDate: May 4, 1972\nTime: 8:58 am - 9:02 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President met with Rose Mary Woods.\n\n     Dictation-Eulogy for J. Edgar Hoover\n          -Hoover's legend\n          -Hoover's career\n                -Support of presidents\n                     -Dwight D. Eisenhower\n                     -Lyndon B. Johnson\n                -Performance as Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] director\n\nAn unknown person entered at an unknown time after 8:58 am.\n\nThe unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:02 am.\n\n     Woods's suggestion\n\n     Manolo Sanchez\n         -Health\n              -Knee operation\n                    -Payment\n\nWoods left at 9:02 am.","filename":["719a.mp3","719b.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:17:09","tapeEnd":"00:24:10","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"719-002","nextCode":"719-004","tapeTranscriptFile":"719a.mp3,719b.mp3","transcript":[{"start":1050.02,"end":1052.78,"text":"He was a low-partisan publicist."},{"start":1052.8,"end":1062.63,"text":"I recall General Eisenhower, Republican, President Johnson, both strongly recommended that I keep him as director of the FBI after my election."},{"start":1066.63,"end":1076.9,"text":"Both strongly recommended after my election that I keep him as director."},{"start":1076.94,"end":1077.82,"text":"He was one of those unique individuals."},{"start":1081.33,"end":1081.7,"text":"It's the best man."},{"start":1195.57,"end":1197.59,"text":"Yeah, thank you for having me in."},{"start":1197.61,"end":1199.74,"text":"Yeah, it's always a pleasure."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":1026.25,"end":1457.875,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, to dictate a eulogy honoring the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The President reflected on Hoover's non-partisan career and noted that both Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson had advised him to retain Hoover as director. The brief meeting also included a peripheral discussion regarding the medical expenses for a knee operation for staff member Manolo Sanchez.","topics":["J. Edgar Hoover","Eulogy","FBI","Rose Mary Woods","Manolo Sanchez","Presidential administration"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T03:13:38.389Z"},"topicSlugs":["j-edgar-hoover","eulogy","fbi","rose-mary-woods","manolo-sanchez","presidential-administration"],"audioDurationSec":421,"audioFiles":[{"file":"719a.mp3","bytes":175539721,"durationSec":7314.1,"bitrate":192001,"missing":false},{"file":"719b.mp3","bytes":162858630,"durationSec":6785.7,"bitrate":192002,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":true,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:57.687Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:44:22.190Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/719a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/719b.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/719-003","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/719/conversation-719-003","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}