{"conversationCode":"008-117","tapeNumber":8,"conversationNumber":117,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-008-117","startDateTime":"1971-09-13T23:51:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-09-13T23:54:00.000Z","startDate":"13-Sep-1971","startTime":"7:51 PM","endDate":"13-Sep-1971","endTime":"7:54 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Woods, Rose Mary;","description":"On September 13, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and Rose Mary Woods talked on the telephone from 7:51 pm to 7:54 pm. 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(President)","Woods, Rose Mary"],"prevCode":"008-116","nextCode":"008-118","transcript":[{"start":1.57,"end":2.01,"text":"Hello?"},{"start":2.43,"end":2.65,"text":"Hello."},{"start":10.56,"end":13.04,"text":"Sounded from the radio like you had a very busy day."},{"start":13.44,"end":15.89,"text":"Oh, yeah, yeah."},{"start":16.19,"end":17.29,"text":"And I don't know."},{"start":17.53,"end":18.59,"text":"I called last night."},{"start":18.83,"end":19.45,"text":"Yeah, I know."},{"start":20.17,"end":24.24,"text":"And then seen it to say no more calls."},{"start":25.08,"end":25.98,"text":"Yeah, yeah, I know."},{"start":26.22,"end":27.18,"text":"That was all right, I think."},{"start":27.2,"end":27.74,"text":"Right, right."},{"start":177.32,"end":177.94,"text":"Okay."},{"start":177.98,"end":180.2,"text":"I can follow you by radio and everything, am I?"},{"start":180.34,"end":181.38,"text":"Well, we're really busy."},{"start":181.69,"end":182.11,"text":"I know."},{"start":182.45,"end":183.71,"text":"It must be frightful."},{"start":183.77,"end":186.97,"text":"I may do a press thing on Wednesday or Thursday."},{"start":187.85,"end":190.52,"text":"Not at night, but in the daytime."},{"start":190.54,"end":191.7,"text":"The one in your office, you mean?"},{"start":191.72,"end":192.36,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":192.38,"end":193.24,"text":"Uh-huh."},{"start":193.26,"end":193.94,"text":"Get them out of the way."},{"start":194.2,"end":194.84,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":194.86,"end":195.7,"text":"Well, that'd be good."},{"start":197.27,"end":197.87,"text":"That'd be good."},{"start":197.89,"end":206.06,"text":"Well, I think everything seems to be, you know, seems to be going fine, except for my old friend meeting that somebody would shove off a building."},{"start":206.08,"end":206.62,"text":"Isn't he something?"},{"start":206.8,"end":208.18,"text":"He really is incredible."},{"start":212.15,"end":213.13,"text":"That's the way life is."},{"start":213.16,"end":215.26,"text":"I guess there's always somebody like that around."},{"start":215.52,"end":217.22,"text":"Right."},{"start":217.25,"end":217.51,"text":"Okay."},{"start":217.53,"end":219.61,"text":"Okay, well, thank you so very much."},{"start":219.67,"end":220.15,"text":"Bye."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and personal secretary Rose Mary Woods discuss the President's demanding schedule and the logistical planning for an upcoming daytime press conference. The conversation touches on the President's desire to manage media access efficiently later in the week. Additionally, Nixon expresses significant frustration regarding AFL-CIO leader George Meany, characterizing his adversarial behavior as particularly troublesome.","topics":["White House scheduling","Press relations","George Meany","AFL-CIO","Rose Mary Woods"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T22:49:27.376Z"},"topicSlugs":["white-house-scheduling","press-relations","george-meany","afl-cio","rose-mary-woods"],"audioDurationSec":224,"audioFiles":[{"file":"008-117.mp3","bytes":5385403,"durationSec":224.32,"bitrate":192061,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:21.707Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/008-117.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/008-117","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/8/conversation-008-117","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). 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