{"conversationCode":"008-079","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":79,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-079","startDateTime":"1971-09-09T21:06:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-09T21:08:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Sep-1971","startTime":"5:06 PM","endDate":"9-Sep-1971","endTime":"5:08 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary; [Unknown person(s)];","description":"On September 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, and unknown person(s) talked on the telephone from 5:06 pm to 5:08 pm. 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(“Pat”) Nixon\n         -Cabinet\n         -Length\n\n******************************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3\n[Personal Returnable]\n[Duration: 4s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3\n\n******************************************************************************\n\n    The President's schedule\n         -Charles G. (\"Bebe\") Rebozo\n              -Call from William F. (“Billy”) Graham\n                     -Marjorie P. Acker\n                     -Church service\n                     -Reverend Ben Haden\n              -Call from Woods\n                     -Haden\n                     -Rebozo's attendance\n\n**********************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2\n[Personal Returnable]\n[Duration: 5s ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n     Speech\n          -Woods’ reaction","filename":["008-079.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:53:57","tapeEnd":"02:56:33","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Woods, Rose Mary","[Unknown person(s)]"],"prevCode":"008-078","nextCode":"008-080","transcript":[{"start":0.2,"end":5.71,"text":"Hello."},{"start":6.17,"end":17.7,"text":"Hi, that was absolutely wonderful."},{"start":58.37,"end":60.15,"text":"I was so proud of you."},{"start":60.17,"end":61.91,"text":"You looked absolutely marvelous."},{"start":61.98,"end":68.27,"text":"The reception was so warm, and Pat looked so pretty, and the cabinet looked good."},{"start":68.35,"end":69.59,"text":"I was just so thrilled."},{"start":69.61,"end":72.36,"text":"The talk was marvelous."},{"start":72.38,"end":73.4,"text":"Well, good."},{"start":73.42,"end":76.4,"text":"It seemed to have got a good reception."},{"start":76.44,"end":77.97,"text":"Thank God it was only 25 minutes."},{"start":78.17,"end":79.97,"text":"Well, it was so good."},{"start":84.19,"end":85.25,"text":"Right."},{"start":85.59,"end":86.09,"text":"Okay."},{"start":87.39,"end":91.24,"text":"Sure, sure, sure."},{"start":95.04,"end":96.5,"text":"Who?"},{"start":96.75,"end":97.67,"text":"No."},{"start":97.85,"end":99.49,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":99.83,"end":103.66,"text":"Oh, yeah."},{"start":103.78,"end":108.96,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":109.6,"end":116.82,"text":"And I know the church is overcrowded, but I just wondered... Oh, it's great, yeah."},{"start":116.92,"end":120.27,"text":"Oh, they don't need even that."},{"start":120.37,"end":121.35,"text":"Why don't you just call?"},{"start":122.15,"end":125.08,"text":"I mean, it would be nice if he did come up, if he'd like."},{"start":125.61,"end":126.26,"text":"If he'd like."},{"start":126.28,"end":129.62,"text":"Well, I think he wanted, he felt sort of on, he didn't want to ask."},{"start":129.64,"end":130.2,"text":"No, no, no."},{"start":130.22,"end":130.5,"text":"All right."},{"start":130.6,"end":132.22,"text":"You give him a call from there, would you?"},{"start":132.64,"end":140.57,"text":"And say that Ben Hayden's going to come up and for him to come up and come up if he could so he could be here Saturday about noon."},{"start":141.44,"end":142.46,"text":"Saturday about noon."},{"start":142.48,"end":143.58,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":143.6,"end":143.86,"text":"Okay."},{"start":148.87,"end":149.22,"text":"Fine."},{"start":149.31,"end":149.95,"text":"Saturday noon."},{"start":150.09,"end":150.59,"text":"Okay."},{"start":150.61,"end":152.67,"text":"I'll call him and tell him."},{"start":152.69,"end":154.07,"text":"And again, I'm proud of you so much."},{"start":154.09,"end":154.53,"text":"Thanks, Rose."},{"start":154.67,"end":154.91,"text":"Thanks."},{"start":154.93,"end":155.15,"text":"Bye."},{"start":155.25,"end":155.45,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, discuss the positive public and political reception to the President’s recent economic policy speech. Woods expresses her approval of the President’s performance, the brevity of the address, and the appearance of First Lady Pat Nixon and the Cabinet. The conversation concludes with Nixon tasking Woods to arrange for Bebe Rebozo to attend a Saturday church service featuring Reverend Ben Haden.","topics":["Economic policy","Public relations","Rose Mary Woods","Bebe Rebozo","White House staff"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:46:04.931Z"},"topicSlugs":["economic-policy","public-relations","rose-mary-woods","bebe-rebozo","white-house-staff"],"audioDurationSec":156,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-079.mp3","bytes":3747839,"durationSec":156.09,"bitrate":192082,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.708Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-079.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-079","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-079","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). 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