{"conversationCode":"739-007","tapeNumber":739,"conversationNumber":7,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-739-007","startDateTime":"1972-06-21T16:30:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-06-21T16:33:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Jun-1972","startTime":"12:30 PM","endDate":"21-Jun-1972","endTime":"12:33 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Monzon, Zosimo T.;","description":"On June 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Zosimo T. Monzon met in the Oval Office of the White House at an unknown time between 12:30 pm and 12:33 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 739-007 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. 739-7\n\nDate: June 21, 1972\nTime: Unknown between 12:30 and 12:33 pm\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 25-103]\n\n[End of telephone conversation]\n\nZosimo T. Monzon entered at an unknown time after 12:30 pm.\n\n     Tobacco\n         -Robert H. Abplanalp\n         -Additional purchases\n\nMonzon left before 12:33 pm.","filename":["739-007.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:23:55","tapeEnd":"03:25:01","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator","Monzon, Zosimo T."],"prevCode":"739-006","nextCode":"739-008","transcript":[{"start":10.57,"end":27.72,"text":"Keep over in my briefcase, in the trunk of it, there's a, there's a container, a five-pound container of some tobacco that I got when I was down in Mr. Eklund's place."},{"start":27.74,"end":36.51,"text":"He probably got his British tobacco that he picked up, one of the boys, Les had picked up over at Nassau."},{"start":37.81,"end":38.52,"text":"I have a delivery up to there."},{"start":38.53,"end":44.2,"text":"You just look at the briefcase and pick it up and see if one of the boys maybe could go over or maybe you just look up some."},{"start":44.22,"end":53.17,"text":"You might go over to Garfield's or to some good tobacco shop to see if you could get some of that particular tobacco."},{"start":53.21,"end":55.51,"text":"So if they can't, they'll have to mail them to you or mail them to you."},{"start":55.53,"end":65.96,"text":"You can just hand them that and say, I'd like to have this kind and see if they have it or if they have something that exists."},{"start":66.74,"end":68.01,"text":"Listen, listen to me."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon met with Zosimo T. Monzon to arrange the procurement of a specific type of tobacco he had previously obtained from Robert H. Abplanalp. Nixon directed Monzon to retrieve a sample from his briefcase to serve as a reference for a local tobacco shop. The President requested that Monzon locate this product locally or coordinate a mail-order purchase if the specific brand was unavailable.","topics":["Tobacco procurement","Robert H. Abplanalp","Personal errands","Presidential logistics"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-07T03:38:34.717Z"},"topicSlugs":["tobacco-procurement","robert-h-abplanalp","personal-errands","presidential-logistics"],"audioDurationSec":70,"audioFiles":[{"file":"739-007.mp3","bytes":2792799,"durationSec":69.67,"bitrate":320677,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:57.689Z","findingAidSource":"nixonlibrary.gov subject log (2024-05), reslice-v2","findingAidUpdatedAt":"2026-09-18T08:44:25.449Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/739-007.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/739-007","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/739/conversation-739-007","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}