{"conversationCode":"031-119","tapeNumber":31,"conversationNumber":119,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-031-119","startDateTime":"1972-10-18T18:37:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-10-18T18:39:00.000Z","startDate":"18-Oct-1972","startTime":"2:37 PM","endDate":"18-Oct-1972","endTime":"2:39 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); O'Neill, Thomas P. (\"Tip\"), Jr.; Ford, Gerald R.;","description":"On October 18, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon, Thomas P. (\"Tip\") O'Neill, Jr., and Gerald R. Ford talked on the telephone from 2:37 pm to 2:39 pm. 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Ford\n           -Annual report\n           -Notification\n           -The President's forthcoming call on Senate adjournment\n                -Forthcoming meeting\n\nFord joined the conversation at an unknown time between 2:37 pm and 2:39 pm.\n\n        Congressional adjournment\n           -Forthcoming meeting\n                -William E. Timmons\n                -Carl B. Albert","filename":["031-119.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","O'Neill, Thomas P. (\"Tip\"), Jr.","Ford, Gerald R."],"prevCode":"031-118","nextCode":"031-120","transcript":[{"start":0.84,"end":1.42,"text":"Hello."},{"start":1.46,"end":2.69,"text":"Congressman O'Neill, sir."},{"start":4.39,"end":4.99,"text":"You are."},{"start":5.01,"end":5.39,"text":"Hello."},{"start":5.77,"end":6.49,"text":"Mr. President."},{"start":6.81,"end":7.84,"text":"Yes, Dip, are you?"},{"start":8.1,"end":8.26,"text":"Fine."},{"start":8.28,"end":8.78,"text":"How are you?"},{"start":8.8,"end":9.2,"text":"Fine."},{"start":9.98,"end":17.62,"text":"Well, Jerry is here with me and he's calling on the annual report that we have a committee appointed."},{"start":18.12,"end":22.89,"text":"to inform the Senate and to inform the President that Congress is ready to adjourn."},{"start":23.19,"end":27.11,"text":"Have you any further communications to make to the Congress?"},{"start":27.13,"end":34.96,"text":"No, I have no further communications except to wish you all the very best in the recess period."},{"start":35.8,"end":45.48,"text":"And also I was going to suggest, if it would fit into your schedule, I'm expecting a call from the Senate at 3.30 that..."},{"start":45.74,"end":55.45,"text":"Perhaps you might, if you had time, you could come down and have a cup of coffee about 4 o'clock down here, if that would meet with your schedules."},{"start":55.51,"end":57.67,"text":"Well, if it meets with my schedule, I'll be delighted."},{"start":57.72,"end":58.76,"text":"I'll have you talk to Jerry."},{"start":59.08,"end":61.65,"text":"Well, Mr. President, it..."},{"start":62.16,"end":67.37,"text":"If we're through, and I hope we are through by that time, I'd love to do it."},{"start":67.59,"end":74.96,"text":"What I will do is to have Bill call you, your offices, as soon as we find out what the Senate is up to, you know, whether they'll be ready."},{"start":75.64,"end":81.05,"text":"And would the two of you inform the Speaker and ask him if he could come, too?"},{"start":81.11,"end":83.99,"text":"Obviously, we'd want him there, too."},{"start":84.67,"end":89.66,"text":"But we would like to talk a little before you go out for..."},{"start":90.23,"end":91.39,"text":"Shall we call it a vacation?"},{"start":92.79,"end":93.33,"text":"Let's hope."},{"start":93.55,"end":96.34,"text":"Not for the next three weeks, Mr. President."},{"start":96.44,"end":97.42,"text":"That's right."},{"start":97.62,"end":103.95,"text":"Well, you're very nice to invite us down, and I think we'll get through here, don't you?"},{"start":104.65,"end":108.05,"text":"Well, anyway, if it's later than four, it could be five, six, any time."},{"start":108.09,"end":109.93,"text":"So I'll be here anyway."},{"start":111.46,"end":115.38,"text":"Good to talk to you, and we'll look forward to seeing you later this afternoon."},{"start":115.44,"end":116.3,"text":"Thanks very much."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon, Tip O'Neill, and Gerald Ford discuss the imminent adjournment of Congress and the formal notification process required. The President invites O'Neill, Ford, and Speaker Carl Albert to the White House for an informal meeting and coffee later that afternoon. 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