{"conversationCode":"001-114","tapeNumber":1,"conversationNumber":114,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-001-114","startDateTime":"1971-04-17T04:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-17T04:09:00.000Z","startDate":"16-Apr-1971","startTime":"11:05 PM","endDate":"16-Apr-1971","endTime":"11:09 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Kissinger, Henry A.;","description":"On April 16, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger talked on the telephone from 11:05 pm to 11:09 pm. 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Kissinger.\n\n     Kissinger's possible conversation with Otis Chandler\n          -Chandler's questions at editors' interview with President\n          -Chandler\n\n     President's interview with newspaper editors\n           -Administration's policies in Asia\n                 -People's Republic of China [PRC]\n                       -United Nations [UN]\n                 -Vietnam\n                       -Residual forces\n                            -Korea\n           -Kissinger's conversation with Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.\n                 -Wiretapping\n                 -Reaction\n           -Chandler\n                 -Questions at editors' meeting\n           -Young people\n                 -Environment\n           -Chandler","filename":["001-114-splice.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:50:08","tapeEnd":"03:52:45","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Kissinger, Henry A."],"prevCode":"001-113","nextCode":"001-115","tapeTranscriptFile":"001a.mp3,001b.mp3,001c.mp3","transcript":[{"start":13908.69,"end":13917.43,"text":"Henry, I think a very good touch would be for you to get Otis Chandler on the phone and tell him that you thought his questions were very perceptive and sensitive."},{"start":13918.19,"end":13922.82,"text":"The president thought that, that you just chatted with me about youth and the rest."},{"start":13923.36,"end":13923.92,"text":"I'll do that."},{"start":13923.98,"end":13925.96,"text":"Do a little crap right now, you know."},{"start":13925.98,"end":13926.34,"text":"I'll do that."},{"start":13926.56,"end":13927.86,"text":"He'll love it."},{"start":13927.92,"end":13928.66,"text":"He was all right."},{"start":13928.7,"end":13929.72,"text":"He was good, you know."},{"start":13929.76,"end":13930.92,"text":"He smiled."},{"start":13931,"end":13933.56,"text":"He's really... A decent man, really."},{"start":13933.92,"end":13934.36,"text":"That's right."},{"start":13935.09,"end":13935.93,"text":"I wonder very well."},{"start":13936.01,"end":13937.65,"text":"I'll get the White House."},{"start":13937.69,"end":13944.83,"text":"No, just call the White House and tell them he's at the showroom, and for them to get him for you, and tell them you're calling for the president."},{"start":13944.93,"end":13945.63,"text":"They'll get him."},{"start":13946.16,"end":13947.25,"text":"But I'll do it this minute."},{"start":13948.06,"end":13954.16,"text":"Actually, you know, this little performance night, it wasn't much, but basically..."},{"start":13955.5,"end":13967.54,"text":"These editors, they had to hear, I mean, I couldn't give them the thing they wanted to hear, recognize Red China, admit them to the United Nations, give them a deadline with regard to this and that."},{"start":13968.6,"end":13981.09,"text":"You notice what I said about residual forces, that we're not going to have a residual, I was very subtle about that, I said, not like Korea, but we're going to keep a residual force as long as it's necessary to see Vietnam can defend itself."},{"start":13981.31,"end":13983.37,"text":"I will test now after I've finished with you."},{"start":13985.11,"end":13988.97,"text":"Uh, talked to Adlai Stephenson, Jr. Did you?"},{"start":13989.05,"end":13991.61,"text":"Yeah, and he said, you know, on foreign policy..."},{"start":13991.64,"end":13992.51,"text":"I defended him, you know."},{"start":13993,"end":13993.82,"text":"I beg your pardon?"},{"start":13993.83,"end":13994.7,"text":"Tonight I defended him."},{"start":13994.78,"end":13998.5,"text":"I said it was a terrible thing that they bugged him, you know, during the convention."},{"start":13998.74,"end":14002.04,"text":"You won hands down on foreign policy tonight."},{"start":14002.74,"end":14003.12,"text":"He did?"},{"start":14003.28,"end":14004.88,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":14005.82,"end":14008.7,"text":"And I didn't ask him what he thought because I didn't want to embarrass him."},{"start":14011.36,"end":14011.94,"text":"That's good."},{"start":14013.55,"end":14017.39,"text":"Well, you call Otis Chandler and say that the president thought his questions were excellent."},{"start":14018.23,"end":14020.25,"text":"You tell him you thought his questions were excellent."},{"start":14020.27,"end":14021.49,"text":"You just talk to the president."},{"start":14021.53,"end":14026.93,"text":"He thought he really zeroed in on what really people were worried about, which is really true, Henry."},{"start":14027.45,"end":14028.51,"text":"They're worried about kids."},{"start":14029.3,"end":14032.52,"text":"You know, and what I said about kids, you and I know that they're not worth a damn."},{"start":14033.56,"end":14041.64,"text":"But on the other hand, I did say that, look, if we bring peace and if we clean up the environment and the rest,"},{"start":14042.21,"end":14045.16,"text":"The kids may think maybe the system ain't all that bad, huh?"},{"start":14045.56,"end":14049.06,"text":"Well, you weren't saying anything, Mr. President, that this isn't true."},{"start":14049.88,"end":14054.08,"text":"Whatever one thinks of some of the reactions, you defined the problem."},{"start":14055.64,"end":14058.04,"text":"I think you should call him immediately, okay?"},{"start":14058.06,"end":14059.82,"text":"I'll call him this minute, Mr. President."},{"start":14059.88,"end":14064.63,"text":"Yes, please."},{"start":14064.67,"end":14065.35,"text":"Julie, please."},{"start":14065.37,"end":14066.03,"text":"Thank you, sir."}],"transcriptBoundary":{"start":13910,"end":14067,"startMethod":"llm-alignment","endMethod":"llm-alignment"},"transcriptConfidence":"high","transcriptSource":"bigtape","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon instructed Henry Kissinger to contact Otis Chandler to praise the quality of Chandler’s questions during a recent interview with newspaper editors. 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