{"conversationCode":"879-003","tapeNumber":879,"conversationNumber":3,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-879-003","startDateTime":"1973-03-15T04:02:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-03-15T04:03:00.000Z","startDate":"14-Mar-1973","startTime":"11:02 PM","endDate":"14-Mar-1973","endTime":"11:03 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Scali, John A.;","description":"On March 14, 1973, President Richard M. Nixon and John A. Scali met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:02 pm to 11:03 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 879-003 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"OVAL","recordingDevice":"Oval Office","latitudeEstimated":38.8974,"longitudeEstimated":-77.0374,"chronCode":"5.4","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part IV","chronReleaseDate":"8-Dec-2010","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 879-3\n\nDate: March 14, 1973\nTime: 11:02 am-11:03 am\nLocation: Oval Office\n\nThe President talked with John A. Scali.\n\n[See Conversation No. 37-101]","filename":["879-003.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Scali, John A."],"prevCode":"879-002","nextCode":"879-004","transcript":[{"start":1.03,"end":3.59,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":4.91,"end":5.19,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":31.14,"end":31.34,"text":"Yeah."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon held a brief, unscheduled exchange with John A. Scali, his newly appointed Ambassador to the United Nations, to touch base regarding his recent appointment. The conversation lasted only one minute and appears to have served as an informal check-in rather than a substantive policy discussion. No significant developments or specific action items were recorded during this brief interaction.","topics":["John A. Scali","United Nations","Ambassadorial appointment","White House communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-08T23:00:04.246Z"},"topicSlugs":["john-a-scali","united-nations","ambassadorial-appointment","white-house-communications"],"audioDurationSec":38,"audioFiles":[{"file":"879-003.mp3","bytes":278528,"durationSec":38.48,"bitrate":57906,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:20:02.068Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/879-003.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/879-003","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/879/conversation-879-003","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}