{"conversationCode":"006-091","tapeNumber":6,"conversationNumber":91,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-006-091","startDateTime":"1971-07-02T20:08:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-07-02T20:12:00.000Z","startDate":"2-Jul-1971","startTime":"4:08 PM","endDate":"2-Jul-1971","endTime":"4:12 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Nixon, Thelma C. (\"Pat\") (Ryan); Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\");","description":"On July 2, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Thelma C. (\"Pat\") (Ryan) Nixon, and H. R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 4:08 pm to 4:12 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 006-091 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 6-91\n\nDate: July 2, 1971\nTime: 4:08 pm - 4:12 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon; H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman can be heard in the\nbackground.\n\n[See Conversation No. 260-005]\n\n     Consuelo Juan Velasco\n         -Party\n         -Attendance at concert with Mrs. Nixon\n         -President's toast\n\n     Red Room in the White House\n          -William P. Rogers’ comments to the President\n\n     President's schedule\n           -Representative and Mrs. Thomas G. Abernethy\n           -Comments regarding dining in White House\n           -Lucy Winchester\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 05/01/2023.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[006-091-w002]\n[Duration: 52s]\n\n     The President’s schedule\n          -July 3, 1971 speech\n          -Dinner\n          -Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox\n                -Executive Office Building [EOB] gift unit\n                -Schedule\n                -Potential dinner with Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon\n          -Dictation\n          -Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward R. F. Cox\n\n***********************************************************************\n\n     National Archives\n          -President’s schedule\n          -First Family's schedule\n          -Rogers\n          -Television show July 3","filename":["006-091.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:48:38","tapeEnd":"01:52:33","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Nixon, Thelma C. (\"Pat\") (Ryan)","Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\")"],"prevCode":"006-090","nextCode":"006-092","transcript":[{"start":1.21,"end":1.49,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.51,"end":3.04,"text":"Mrs. Nixon, Mr. President."},{"start":3.15,"end":3.7,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":3.72,"end":3.92,"text":"Hello."},{"start":4.28,"end":4.7,"text":"Hi, Dick."},{"start":4.96,"end":6.36,"text":"Well, how did everybody feel?"},{"start":7.28,"end":10.05,"text":"Oh, well, they had such a good time at that party."},{"start":10.07,"end":10.25,"text":"Right."},{"start":10.35,"end":11.45,"text":"Did you take her upstairs?"},{"start":12.07,"end":15.01,"text":"No, I took her down to see the... Oh, you were... Yeah, I was there, yeah."},{"start":15.37,"end":19.34,"text":"I didn't want to because some people feel they can't leave, you know, until everybody's gone."},{"start":19.94,"end":21.86,"text":"But I don't think we need to do any more."},{"start":21.88,"end":23.35,"text":"I took her out last night, you know."},{"start":23.43,"end":24.31,"text":"Yeah, well, that was great."},{"start":24.57,"end":25.65,"text":"Don't she ride out with you?"},{"start":26.05,"end":27.87,"text":"She went to the concert with me."},{"start":28.29,"end":29.59,"text":"Oh, I didn't know she'd been there."},{"start":29.64,"end":31.46,"text":"I knew she'd been there, but I didn't know she went with you."},{"start":31.6,"end":33.2,"text":"Oh, yeah, we went by helicopter."},{"start":33.24,"end":34.28,"text":"We had the works."},{"start":34.3,"end":35.22,"text":"Oh, well, she loved that."},{"start":35.34,"end":37.36,"text":"So we've really done a lot for her."},{"start":37.62,"end":39.15,"text":"Yeah, yeah."},{"start":39.28,"end":41.27,"text":"Well, I thought it was a nice lunch."},{"start":41.29,"end":43.17,"text":"She's a very lovely person."},{"start":43.27,"end":47.57,"text":"I was so surprised that, you know, she's a very pretty woman."},{"start":48.63,"end":48.95,"text":"Beautiful."},{"start":48.98,"end":51.28,"text":"Nice and really very emotional."},{"start":51.58,"end":52.18,"text":"She's very sweet."},{"start":52.2,"end":52.34,"text":"Mm-hmm."},{"start":52.36,"end":52.5,"text":"Mm-hmm."},{"start":53.8,"end":56.96,"text":"He was really, really raving about your visit."},{"start":57.66,"end":59.52,"text":"You know, that comes from the heart and all that."},{"start":59.56,"end":61.12,"text":"That's what they want, you know, don't they?"},{"start":61.37,"end":62.89,"text":"Yeah, right, right."},{"start":63.13,"end":64.29,"text":"Your toast was great."},{"start":65.49,"end":69.64,"text":"Well, it wasn't really hard to think of anything to say, but it may have got across the point."},{"start":70.28,"end":71.22,"text":"No, it was just right."},{"start":71.36,"end":72.42,"text":"Just what they like to hear."},{"start":72.48,"end":74.38,"text":"They were all very happy."},{"start":76.01,"end":76.43,"text":"You know..."},{"start":76.85,"end":80.19,"text":"Bill Rogers was remarking he didn't think he'd ever seen the room so pretty."},{"start":80.97,"end":84.36,"text":"You know, with those big chairs, it is beautiful, isn't it?"},{"start":84.38,"end":90.81,"text":"If you notice, you don't look a bit crowded, and it's an elegant way to use those big chairs."},{"start":91.19,"end":97.64,"text":"Yeah, well, somebody else mentioned to me that they, you know, they'd been there always at night, and it was so much fun to be there in the daytime."},{"start":98.22,"end":98.34,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":98.36,"end":99.77,"text":"One of those undersecretaries."},{"start":100.54,"end":104.4,"text":"Well, we took care of a lot of people here today that don't usually get to things."},{"start":104.94,"end":113.74,"text":"Did you notice Mrs. Abernathy, Tom Abernathy, who's been in the Congress 29 years, says, did you know this is the first time in 29 years I've ever had a bite to eat at the White House?"},{"start":113.76,"end":114.32,"text":"Yeah, I know."},{"start":114.42,"end":115.64,"text":"He was so thrilled."},{"start":115.66,"end":117.62,"text":"He was telling Lucy and he was telling me."},{"start":118.08,"end":119.12,"text":"See, I had his wife."},{"start":119.23,"end":119.55,"text":"I know."},{"start":119.81,"end":121.53,"text":"Remember, she told you that about herself."},{"start":121.55,"end":121.77,"text":"Yeah, yeah."},{"start":121.79,"end":122.55,"text":"But what did he say to you?"},{"start":123.31,"end":124.17,"text":"Oh, the same thing."},{"start":124.27,"end":128.42,"text":"And, you know, they even said to Lucy, you know, we can hardly wait to..."},{"start":128.69,"end":130.58,"text":"We can leave and call our children."},{"start":132.78,"end":133.89,"text":"No, they really had a good time."},{"start":185.17,"end":186.71,"text":"They might want to go over."},{"start":186.95,"end":188.77,"text":"I mean, I don't know whether you want to now."},{"start":189.41,"end":195.54,"text":"Tomorrow night, they're going to have just about 70 people in the archives as a live audience."},{"start":196.66,"end":198.87,"text":"Rogers is going to be there and people like that."},{"start":198.88,"end":199.91,"text":"Do you want to go or not?"},{"start":199.97,"end":200.65,"text":"You don't have to."},{"start":200.79,"end":203.05,"text":"Oh, well, I think that they've already said I'm going."},{"start":203.83,"end":205.31,"text":"Well, no, we've left it open for you."},{"start":205.35,"end":207.82,"text":"But it'd be nice if you did go, but you don't have to."},{"start":208.56,"end":209.76,"text":"You know what I mean?"},{"start":209.78,"end":211.32,"text":"The audience will be able to pan to you."},{"start":211.38,"end":213.28,"text":"See if Tricia and Eddie would go, too."},{"start":213.8,"end":216.67,"text":"Nice that they would go and sit with you in the audience."},{"start":216.95,"end":219.07,"text":"It's a very, it's never been done before."},{"start":219.13,"end":224.54,"text":"Never had television like that in there for a, you know, with the Constitution and the original Constitution."},{"start":224.56,"end":226.27,"text":"Bill Wright's right back of us, the speaker."},{"start":226.41,"end":227.67,"text":"It's really quite something."},{"start":227.69,"end":229.01,"text":"Only a half hour from 10.30 to 11."},{"start":229.09,"end":231.46,"text":"Okay, I'll mention it."},{"start":231.76,"end":232.06,"text":"All right."},{"start":232.26,"end":233.24,"text":"Okay."},{"start":233.46,"end":233.72,"text":"Bye."},{"start":234.38,"end":234.46,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon, with input from H. 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