{"conversationCode":"025-040","tapeNumber":25,"conversationNumber":40,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-025-040","startDateTime":"1972-06-11T18:38:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-06-11T18:39:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Jun-1972","startTime":"2:38 PM","endDate":"11-Jun-1972","endTime":"2:39 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Tricia Nixon;","description":"On June 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Tricia Nixon Cox talked on the telephone from 2:38 pm to 2:39 pm. 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(Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon\n\n     Dinner plans\n          -Weather for dinner on Truman Balcony\n          -Alternative dinner plans\n\n     The President’s schedule\n          -Executive Office Building [EOB]\n\f*****************************************************************","filename":["025-040.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:06:43","tapeEnd":"02:08:02","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Cox, Tricia Nixon"],"prevCode":"025-039","nextCode":"025-041","aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon called his daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, to discuss dinner arrangements for that evening. Concerned about potential rain and wind, Nixon suggested moving the dinner from the Truman Balcony to either the dining room or the yellow oval room. Cox agreed to make the decision and finalize the indoor location for the 7:00 pm meal.","topics":["Dinner plans","Weather","Truman Balcony","Yellow Oval Room","Dining Room","President's schedule"],"generatedAt":"2026-10-27T14:55:59.988Z"},"topicSlugs":["dinner-plans","weather","truman-balcony","yellow-oval-room","dining-room","presidential-scheduling"],"audioDurationSec":78,"audioFiles":[{"file":"025-040.mp3","bytes":1878307,"durationSec":78.2,"bitrate":192142,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:27.840Z","transcript":[{"start":4,"end":5,"speaker":"Cox","text":"Hello?"},{"start":5,"end":6,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Hi, Tricia."},{"start":6,"end":7,"speaker":"Cox","text":"Hi."},{"start":7,"end":11,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Listen, ah, mother's sleeping, I don't want to wake her up, but I wanted to talk to you about dinner tonight."},{"start":11,"end":14,"speaker":"Cox","text":"Oh, yes. Yes, I asked [unintelligible]-"},{"start":14,"end":20,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"We, eh, eh, ah-you know she wants to eat on the porch. The only thing is, they say it's going to rain, and the wind is coming from the south, so you'll blow off the porch."},{"start":20,"end":21,"speaker":"Cox","text":"Oh."},{"start":21,"end":31,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"So, I thought, maybe we ought to-I think we ought to plan, so that-not having everything rushed in at the last minute, why don't we-why don't you have them set it in either in the dining room, or in the yellow oval room, whichever you think is the best?"},{"start":31,"end":34,"speaker":"Cox","text":"Yeah, that would be, that'd be fun. Which would you prefer?"},{"start":34,"end":42,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Well, ah, maybe in the-maybe in the yellow room, you know, we could set a table in front of the window, or would that be too much of a job?"},{"start":42,"end":44,"speaker":"Cox","text":"No, I don't think so at all."},{"start":44,"end":49,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Or we could have it in the dining room, in front of the window there, see? Either one, suit yourself, but just not out in the rain, because-"},{"start":49,"end":50,"speaker":"Cox","text":"Sure."},{"start":50,"end":55,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"-if the-if it's going to rain-it looks right now like it might rain. And they predict rain for the-from 4:00 o'clock on."},{"start":55,"end":57,"speaker":"Cox","text":"Yeah, it's looked like rain all day."},{"start":57,"end":61,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Yeah, right. So, uh, I'm over here at the EOB, so you can make the decision, and set it either place, okay?"},{"start":61,"end":62,"speaker":"Cox","text":"Okay, fine."},{"start":62,"end":63,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"We'll eat at 7:00."},{"start":63,"end":64,"speaker":"Cox","text":"Okay, bye."},{"start":64,"end":65,"speaker":"Nixon","text":"Bye."}],"transcriptCreatedAt":"2026-10-27T14:35:30.869Z","transcriptModel":"google/gemini-3.8-flash","transcriptSource":"audio-llm","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/025-040.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/025-040","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/025/conversation-025-040","catalogNaId":417193703,"catalogUrl":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/417193703","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}