{"conversationCode":"015-009","tapeNumber":15,"conversationNumber":9,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-015-009","startDateTime":"1971-11-18T01:05:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-11-18T01:07:00.000Z","startDate":"17-Nov-1971","startTime":"8:05 PM","endDate":"17-Nov-1971","endTime":"8:07 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator; Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\");","description":"On November 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, White House operator, and H. R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 8:05 pm to 8:07 pm. 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Usery\n\n     The President's schedule\n          -Trip to Florida\n                -Airplane","filename":["015-009.mp3"],"tapeStart":"00:12:10","tapeEnd":"00:14:20","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator","Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\")"],"prevCode":"015-008","nextCode":"015-010","transcript":[{"start":0.35,"end":12.74,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":12.76,"end":12.88,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":12.9,"end":13.22,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":13.27,"end":16.13,"text":"Hello."},{"start":17.02,"end":39.93,"text":"And, uh, we've been trying for an hour and we've been tracking down and haven't found it."},{"start":39.95,"end":42.49,"text":"Well, I wonder if maybe we should, uh, it'll be, we can still do it tonight if you want to, but we'll have to scramble a plane."},{"start":42.51,"end":44.47,"text":"If we're going to go tonight, I ought to scramble a plane now because it takes an hour and a half."},{"start":44.49,"end":45.33,"text":"And, uh, I don't think you should go, Bob."},{"start":45.35,"end":45.51,"text":"No, sir."},{"start":46.72,"end":67.12,"text":"But we may... they... George would expect that they would find me any minute, you know, all along for the last hour."},{"start":67.14,"end":67.94,"text":"And, uh... Well, let's wait a half hour."},{"start":67.96,"end":69.78,"text":"And then decide if we don't get it in a half hour."},{"start":69.8,"end":70.38,"text":"We can go as late as 9, 9.30."},{"start":70.4,"end":71.3,"text":"All right, why don't I scramble a plane then?"},{"start":71.32,"end":73.55,"text":"So that they get the... so that they're set up for us, and then so that they can go at 9.30 if you want to."},{"start":73.57,"end":74.67,"text":"I'll have to tell them that now in order to go at 9.30."},{"start":74.69,"end":74.91,"text":"Okay, fine."},{"start":75.61,"end":94.87,"text":"And, uh... You won't tell anybody else?"},{"start":94.89,"end":95.13,"text":"No, I won't."},{"start":95.15,"end":101.14,"text":"But they know over there because we sent the choppers down there."},{"start":101.16,"end":101.28,"text":"Right."},{"start":101.3,"end":102.94,"text":"They're working through Kirkland and us are just trying to track him down himself."},{"start":102.96,"end":103.28,"text":"He's down there."},{"start":103.3,"end":103.42,"text":"Right."},{"start":103.44,"end":104.12,"text":"And, uh, we go in the morning."},{"start":104.14,"end":104.22,"text":"845."},{"start":110.33,"end":126,"text":"I'd a little rather go tonight."},{"start":126.02,"end":126.66,"text":"Let's wait a half hour."},{"start":126.68,"end":126.78,"text":"Okay."},{"start":126.8,"end":127.22,"text":"Scramble the plane."},{"start":127.24,"end":128,"text":"They can have it ready in the morning."},{"start":128.02,"end":128.2,"text":"Yes, sir."},{"start":128.22,"end":128.32,"text":"Sure."},{"start":128.34,"end":128.89,"text":"Either tonight or tomorrow."},{"start":128.91,"end":130.71,"text":"Well, we'll tell them to get the guys ready and then we'll scratch them in a half an hour."},{"start":130.73,"end":130.83,"text":"Okay."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and H. R. Haldeman coordinate efforts to locate AFL-CIO President George Meany for an urgent meeting. Haldeman secures a standby aircraft to maintain the flexibility of traveling to Florida either that evening or the following morning. They decide to wait thirty minutes to see if Meany can be reached before finalizing departure plans.","topics":["George Meany","logistics","Presidential travel","AFL-CIO","H. R. 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