{"conversationCode":"013-117","tapeNumber":13,"conversationNumber":117,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-013-117","startDateTime":"1971-11-04T18:11:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-04T18:12:00.000Z","startDate":"4-Nov-1971","startTime":"1:11 PM","endDate":"4-Nov-1971","endTime":"1:12 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Steele, Robert H.;","description":"On November 4, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and Robert H. Steele talked on the telephone from 1:11 pm to 1:12 pm. 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Steele\n\nThe President talked with Steele.\n\n     Steele's birthday\n\n     Steele's appeal to youth\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n[Previous PRMPA Personal Returnable (G) withdrawal reviewed under deed of gift 02/11/2019.\nSegment cleared for release.]\n[Personal Returnable]\n[013-117-w001]\n[Duration: 7s]\n\n       Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542\n\n       Robert H. Steele\n              -Support for President in 1972 campaign\n                     -Connecticut\n\n**********************************************************************","filename":["013-117.mp3"],"tapeStart":"03:58:36","tapeEnd":"03:59:47","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator","Steele, Robert H."],"prevCode":"013-116","nextCode":"013-118","transcript":[{"start":0.03,"end":1.19,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.59,"end":4.34,"text":"Mr. President, was that Congressman Broyhill of Virginia that you wanted?"},{"start":4.38,"end":4.6,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":4.62,"end":5.08,"text":"There's another."},{"start":5.28,"end":5.54,"text":"All right."},{"start":5.56,"end":7.36,"text":"I have Congressman Steele for you now."},{"start":7.4,"end":8.04,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":8.12,"end":11.37,"text":"Congressman Steele, President."},{"start":11.53,"end":11.73,"text":"Hello."},{"start":11.99,"end":13.15,"text":"Mr. President, how are you?"},{"start":13.39,"end":13.59,"text":"Fine."},{"start":14.01,"end":23,"text":"I just wanted you to know that because you're one of the younger members of our Congress, and particularly our Republican Congress that I was..."},{"start":22.98,"end":30.9,"text":"I'm very surprised to note that you ever got any older, but they told me yesterday you had a birthday, and I didn't want to let you get any older before I knew it."},{"start":31.26,"end":32.83,"text":"Well, you're very kind to call that."},{"start":32.85,"end":34.83,"text":"But the main thing is to keep your spirit young."},{"start":35.15,"end":38.64,"text":"I can remember when I was in my 30s, I had a lot of jazz."},{"start":38.62,"end":42.31,"text":"Well, I know you do, and we're trying to emulate some of you."},{"start":42.33,"end":42.81,"text":"That's right."},{"start":42.83,"end":54.86,"text":"Well, keep up the spirit and the fight and everything, and we do appreciate your hard work and your good, particularly your appeal to young people."},{"start":56.9,"end":59.91,"text":"And I just wanted you to know that I remembered you."},{"start":67.01,"end":68.02,"text":"Okay."},{"start":68.04,"end":68.91,"text":"All right."},{"start":68.93,"end":70.28,"text":"Thank you very much."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiated this brief courtesy call to Representative Robert H. Steele to offer personal birthday greetings. Beyond the well-wishes, the President specifically commended Steele for his effective political outreach and appeal to younger voters. The conversation served primarily as a gesture of rapport-building between the President and a junior Republican legislator.","topics":["Robert H. 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