{"conversationCode":"020-123","tapeNumber":20,"conversationNumber":123,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-020-123","startDateTime":"1972-03-01T01:40:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-03-01T01:47:00.000Z","startDate":"29-Feb-1972","startTime":"8:40 PM","endDate":"29-Feb-1972","endTime":"8:47 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\");","description":"On February 29, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and H. R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman talked on the telephone from 8:40 pm to 8:47 pm. 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Dobrynin lunch\n           -Use of two planes\n                 -Staff plane\n                       -Timing of departure\n                 -President's plane\n                       -Timing of departure\n                       -Passengers\n                             -Julie Nixon Eisenhower\n                             -Rose Mary Woods\n                                   -Conversation with Haldeman\n                             -George P. Shultz\n                             -John D. Ehrlichman\n                             -Julie Nixon Eisenhower\n                       -President's schedule\n                             -Bill signing\n                                   -Alexander P. Butterfield\n                             -Richard G. Kleindienst\n                             -Julie Nixon Eisenhower's view\n                       -Passengers\n                             -Ehrlichman\n                                   -Attendance\n                                   -Jeanne Ehrlichman\n                             -Meeting with President\n                             -Kissinger\n                 -Helicopters\n                 -Staff plane\n                       -Timing\n                             -Kissinger\n                                   -Dobrynin\n                 -President's plane\n                       -Timing\n           -President's schedule\n                 -Bill signing\n                 -Meeting with John B. Connally\n\nHugh Scott and Michael J. Mansfield remarks from leadership conference\n    -Media coverage\n          -Los Angeles Times\n               -Editorial\n\n                     -Robert Elegant column\n                     -Ernest Ferguson's column\n                          -Outlook for Soviet Union trip\n\n     Media relations\n         -General tone\n         -The President’s recent trip to the People’s Republic of China [PRC]\n                -Kissinger\n                     -William F. Buckley, Jr.’s view\n                           -Patrick J. Buchanan awareness\n\n     Departure\n         -Woods\n               -Talk with Haldeman\n                     -Trip\n                     -Lawrence H. Higby\n                     -Effect of reaction to trip\n         -Timing\n               -Julie Nixon Eisenhower's view\n         -Camp David\n         -Benefits of trip\n         -President's schedule\n               -Bill signing","filename":["020-123.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:09:45","tapeEnd":"04:16:35","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\")"],"prevCode":"020-122","nextCode":"020-124","transcript":[{"start":0.54,"end":4.15,"text":"Hello, hello, sir."},{"start":4.17,"end":8.49,"text":"The guard at the eye departure department..."},{"start":11.42,"end":31.75,"text":"What I would like for you to do is to set up two nightclubs."},{"start":31.77,"end":32.69,"text":"So that any staffs that are on the nightclubs."},{"start":32.71,"end":33.61,"text":"And so the staffs that are on the nightclubs."},{"start":33.63,"end":34.07,"text":"Do you have a new one?"},{"start":34.09,"end":34.65,"text":"Yeah, we have one."},{"start":34.67,"end":35.55,"text":"We've got up to about three or four or five."},{"start":35.57,"end":36.47,"text":"That's the staffs that are on the nightclubs."},{"start":36.49,"end":36.83,"text":"I will go myself."},{"start":36.85,"end":37.19,"text":"I'll go with you."},{"start":40.94,"end":50.05,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":54.15,"end":75.06,"text":"Stay here, stay here."},{"start":75.08,"end":75.3,"text":"Okay, okay."},{"start":75.32,"end":77.22,"text":"I don't want anybody, I don't want anybody, I don't want anybody."},{"start":77.2,"end":104.74,"text":"I don't want to talk to them."},{"start":104.76,"end":105.12,"text":"Put them on later."},{"start":105.14,"end":105.4,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":105.42,"end":105.69,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":105.7,"end":105.97,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":105.98,"end":106.25,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":106.75,"end":129.18,"text":"I really, really thought that we should go tomorrow."},{"start":129.2,"end":129.76,"text":"That's a great, great issue."},{"start":129.78,"end":130.66,"text":"But I don't want to have to talk to you now."},{"start":130.69,"end":131.45,"text":"So don't leave the people on the line."},{"start":131.47,"end":131.91,"text":"Put them on the phone."},{"start":131.93,"end":132.19,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":132.21,"end":132.99,"text":"I don't think you're hearing it, Jerry."},{"start":133.01,"end":133.27,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":133.29,"end":133.55,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":136.4,"end":141.51,"text":"I don't know if that's it, but after that, I heard about it."},{"start":141.53,"end":141.84,"text":"I worked on it."},{"start":143.38,"end":166.83,"text":"I think he should go."},{"start":166.85,"end":166.91,"text":"Go."},{"start":166.93,"end":167.11,"text":"He might."},{"start":167.13,"end":167.31,"text":"He might."},{"start":167.33,"end":167.51,"text":"He might."},{"start":167.53,"end":167.59,"text":"No."},{"start":167.61,"end":167.67,"text":"No."},{"start":167.69,"end":167.93,"text":"He ought to."},{"start":167.95,"end":168.19,"text":"He ought to."},{"start":168.21,"end":169.07,"text":"But let him assume that I'm not in trouble."},{"start":169.09,"end":169.19,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":169.21,"end":169.31,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":169.33,"end":169.43,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":169.45,"end":170.23,"text":"Let him assume that I'm not in trouble."},{"start":170.25,"end":171.23,"text":"I don't want him to feel that I'm not in trouble."},{"start":171.25,"end":171.45,"text":"Four days."},{"start":171.47,"end":171.67,"text":"Four days."},{"start":171.69,"end":171.93,"text":"Fair enough."},{"start":171.95,"end":172.19,"text":"Fair enough."},{"start":172.21,"end":172.31,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":173.76,"end":196.14,"text":"What else?"},{"start":196.16,"end":196.36,"text":"What else?"},{"start":196.38,"end":196.64,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":196.66,"end":196.92,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":196.94,"end":197.2,"text":"I don't know."},{"start":201.87,"end":231.25,"text":"Yes, yes."},{"start":233.11,"end":254.48,"text":"."},{"start":254.5,"end":254.52,"text":"."},{"start":254.54,"end":254.56,"text":"."},{"start":254.58,"end":254.6,"text":"."},{"start":254.62,"end":254.64,"text":"."},{"start":261.09,"end":286.64,"text":"."},{"start":286.66,"end":286.68,"text":"."},{"start":286.7,"end":286.72,"text":"."},{"start":290.26,"end":313.55,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":313.57,"end":313.67,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":313.69,"end":313.79,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":320.77,"end":347.22,"text":"."},{"start":347.24,"end":347.26,"text":"."},{"start":347.28,"end":347.3,"text":"."},{"start":347.32,"end":347.34,"text":"."},{"start":347.36,"end":347.38,"text":"."},{"start":347.4,"end":347.42,"text":"."},{"start":352.23,"end":361.76,"text":"Not true."},{"start":361.78,"end":361.96,"text":"Not true."},{"start":365.55,"end":365.73,"text":"Not true."},{"start":375.63,"end":402.93,"text":"but i think two things"},{"start":407.41,"end":409.04,"text":"Okay, okay, good."},{"start":409.06,"end":409.49,"text":"Five, five, five."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and H. 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