{"conversationCode":"719-005","tapeNumber":719,"conversationNumber":5,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-719-005","startDateTime":"1972-05-04T13:59:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-05-04T13:59:00.000Z","startDate":"4-May-1972","startTime":"9:59 AM","endDate":"4-May-1972","endTime":"9:59 AM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President);","description":"On May 4, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon met in the Oval Office of the White House at 9:59 am. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 719-005 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. 719-5\n\nDate: May 4, 1972\nTime: 9:59 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President rehearsed a portion of his \"Eulogy Delivered at Funeral Services for J. Edgar\nHoover\".\n\n[A transcript of the final eulogy appears in Public Papers of the Presidents, Richard M. Nixon,\n1972, pp. 574-575]","filename":["719a.mp3","719b.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:17:41","tapeEnd":"01:18:10","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)"],"prevCode":"719-004","nextCode":"719-006","tapeTranscriptFile":"719a.mp3,719b.mp3","transcript":[{"start":4658.88,"end":4668.56,"text":"America's pride has always been its people, a people of good men left by the millions, of great men left by the remarkable ones, and once in a long while, of giants, who stand ahead in the shoulders of their country, setting a high and noble standard for us all."},{"start":4668.62,"end":4671.44,"text":"The end of your world is on those men."},{"start":4671.48,"end":4673.19,"text":"Your small mind will go to the point that"}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":4658.875,"end":4689.75,"startMethod":"silence","endMethod":"silence"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met in the Oval Office to rehearse and refine the delivery of his eulogy for J. Edgar Hoover. He practiced specific passages characterizing the late FBI Director as a national giant who set a noble standard for the country. This preparation served to finalize the formal remarks he would deliver to honor Hoover’s legacy.","topics":["Richard Nixon","J. Edgar Hoover","eulogy","speech preparation","FBI"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T03:13:49.827Z"},"topicSlugs":["richard-nixon","j-edgar-hoover","eulogy","speech-preparation","fbi"],"audioDurationSec":29,"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","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/719a.mp3","https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/719b.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/719-005","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/719/conversation-719-005","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}