{"conversationCode":"012-059","tapeNumber":12,"conversationNumber":59,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-012-059","startDateTime":"1971-10-22T00:19:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-22T00:25:00.000Z","startDate":"21-Oct-1971","startTime":"8:19 PM","endDate":"21-Oct-1971","endTime":"8:25 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia Nixon; Cox, Edward R. F.;","description":"On October 21, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, Tricia Nixon Cox, and Edward R. F. Cox talked on the telephone from 8:19 pm to 8:25 pm. 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Cox talked with the President.\n\n******************************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 12/15/2017. 5m\n16s segment cleared for release with four segments of 2s, 8s, 9s, and 15s remaining closed as 012-\n059-w001, 012-059-w002, 012-059-w003, and 012-059-w004 respectively.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[012-059-w001]\n[Duration: 5m 16s]\n\n     Greetings\n\n     The President’s announcement of nominees to Supreme Court\n          -Lewis F. Powell, William H. Rehnquist\n               -Qualifications\n\n******************************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n[Personal Returnable]\n[012-059-w001]\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n[Duration: 2s]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 1\n\n******************************************************************************\n\n     Supreme Court nominees\n          -Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon\n               -Female appointee\n                      -American Bar Association [ABA]\n                          -Reflection on Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon\n          -Qualifications\n          -Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon\n\n******************************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2\n[Personal Returnable]\n[012-059-w002]\n[Duration: 8s]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2\n\n******************************************************************************\n\n     Supreme Court nominees\n          -Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon\n               -Female appointee\n                     -American Bar Association [ABA]\n                     -Aftermath\n               -Tricia Nixon Cox call\n                     -Camp David\n                     -Promise of a female nominee\n                          -Experience\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n                              -Senate\n                              -Political use\n                              -American Bar Association [ABA]\n            -Delivery of announcement\n            -Qualifications\n                  -Lewis F. Powell\n                        -Marshall tradition\n                  -William H. Rehnquist\n                        -Stanford\n\n     Conservatism\n          -Edward Cox’s opinion\n                -Law school\n          -Felix Frankfurter\n          -Hugo L. Black\n                -Constitutionalism\n          -Versus liberalism\n\n     Edward Cox’s law school\n\n******************************************************************************\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3\n[Personal Returnable]\n[012-059-w003]\n[Duration: 9s]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3\n\n******************************************************************************\n\n     Supreme Court nominees\n          -American Bar Association [ABA]\n\n******************************************************************************\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4\n[Personal Returnable]\n[012-059-w004]\n[Duration: 15s]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4\n\n******************************************************************************\n\n     Supreme Court nominees\n          -Edward Cox’s opinion\n          -New York Times\n          -American Bar Association [ABA]\n\n******************************************************************************","filename":["012-059.mp3"],"tapeStart":"01:45:00","tapeEnd":"01:50:58","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. 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