{"conversationCode":"034-031","tapeNumber":34,"conversationNumber":31,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-034-031","startDateTime":"1972-12-10T17:55:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-10T23:06:00.000Z","startDate":"10-Dec-1972","startTime":"12:55 PM","endDate":"10-Dec-1972","endTime":"6:06 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Cox, Howard (Mrs.);","description":"On December 10, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Mrs. Howard Cox talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 12:55 pm and 6:06 pm. 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(“Pat”) Nixon\n                     -1969 Inauguration\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2\n[Personal returnable]\n\f                                                       -27-\n\n                       NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                                             Conversation No. 34-31 (cont’d)\n\n[Duration: 26s          ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 2\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n        Tricia Nixon Cox’s schedule\n              -Arrival in United Kingdom\n                    -Walter H. and Lenore (Cohn) Annenberg’s schedule\n                    -10 Downing Street\n                          -Edward R. G. Heath\n              -Annenbergs\n                    -Janet Neff\n                    -Tricia Nixon Cox’s forthcoming conversation with Walter Annenberg\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3\n[Personal returnable]\n[Duration: 5s          ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 3\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n                -Tricia Nixon Cox’s schedule\n                      - J. Paul Getty birthday party\n                             -Howard Cox\n                                  -Anne Getty Light\n                                         -Relationship with Getty\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nBEGIN WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4\n[Personal returnable]\n[Duration: 6s          ]\n\nEND WITHDRAWN ITEM NO. 4\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]\n******************************************************************\n\f                                             -28-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["034-031.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Cox, Howard (Mrs.)"],"prevCode":"034-030","nextCode":"034-032","transcript":[{"start":0.47,"end":3.54,"text":"Yes, Bowser House, I think, is about 20 minutes away."},{"start":3.9,"end":4.02,"text":"Right."},{"start":4.04,"end":6.62,"text":"This is very close to the Kremlin, this big hotel."},{"start":7.06,"end":7.54,"text":"All right, good."},{"start":7.56,"end":8.79,"text":"Well, then we probably can't miss it."},{"start":9.17,"end":12.47,"text":"And we can do this at the embassy, because they always know the best places, too."},{"start":12.63,"end":13.1,"text":"That's right."},{"start":13.12,"end":17.48,"text":"You know, and you just say what you want, and then they show you where to get it, or they get it."},{"start":17.52,"end":18.16,"text":"So that's good."},{"start":18.39,"end":20.05,"text":"That's right, Trish."},{"start":29.95,"end":31.03,"text":"It's like an ascot."},{"start":31.07,"end":31.67,"text":"I know what it is."},{"start":31.69,"end":34.52,"text":"My mother wore one for the last inauguration because it was so cold."},{"start":34.77,"end":35.17,"text":"Right, yeah."},{"start":35.23,"end":37.04,"text":"And it was beautiful on it."},{"start":37.32,"end":38.54,"text":"And it was disabled."},{"start":39.34,"end":39.64,"text":"Yes."},{"start":39.9,"end":41.82,"text":"So it's beautiful."},{"start":52.01,"end":54.27,"text":"Well, we're off tomorrow to England."},{"start":54.59,"end":55.82,"text":"So it's exciting."},{"start":55.94,"end":59.62,"text":"And the Annenbergs are giving me a party just before we"},{"start":66.91,"end":69.31,"text":"And they have like a little party about every night."},{"start":69.83,"end":70.83,"text":"So we're doing that."},{"start":71.07,"end":74.5,"text":"And then Thursday we're going to 10 Downing Street for dinner."},{"start":74.54,"end":77.93,"text":"And they're having some carolers from Westminster Avenue."},{"start":77.95,"end":78.97,"text":"We'll give that heat our best."},{"start":79.57,"end":80.15,"text":"We will."},{"start":80.35,"end":80.71,"text":"We will."},{"start":80.77,"end":81.75,"text":"I know that you're friends."},{"start":81.99,"end":82.11,"text":"Right."},{"start":82.09,"end":83.17,"text":"So that's good."},{"start":83.19,"end":87.06,"text":"And tell Mrs. Ann, I just saw Mrs. Ann at NEP."},{"start":87.1,"end":88.66,"text":"Was it a luncheon with?"},{"start":89.5,"end":91.73,"text":"Mrs. Ann is Ambassador Annenberg's sister."},{"start":91.77,"end":92.05,"text":"Right."},{"start":92.23,"end":92.55,"text":"Yes."},{"start":92.87,"end":93.27,"text":"Right."},{"start":93.29,"end":97.07,"text":"And she was in the emergency fund luncheon the other day with me."},{"start":97.09,"end":97.53,"text":"Oh, good."},{"start":97.55,"end":100,"text":"Well, I have to tell him that you saw her."},{"start":100.44,"end":101.46,"text":"Right."},{"start":101.48,"end":102.7,"text":"She's a nice person, too."},{"start":103.14,"end":103.82,"text":"Yes, she is."},{"start":103.84,"end":105.36,"text":"And very capable."},{"start":106,"end":106.12,"text":"Right."},{"start":106.14,"end":107.49,"text":"She does a lot of great things."},{"start":107.91,"end":108.59,"text":"Very much so."},{"start":109.15,"end":110.23,"text":"So that will be fun."},{"start":110.35,"end":111.93,"text":"And so we have a busy agenda."},{"start":121.85,"end":123.01,"text":"So that'll be fun."},{"start":123.41,"end":124.22,"text":"Give him my love."},{"start":124.23,"end":124.64,"text":"I will."},{"start":124.98,"end":127.54,"text":"And then we're going to Paul Getty's 80th birthday."},{"start":128.14,"end":128.98,"text":"He's that old."},{"start":129.68,"end":134.53,"text":"But we're going right after the dinner at 10 Downing Street."},{"start":135.51,"end":137.69,"text":"So we'll just get in for the tail end of that."},{"start":137.71,"end":138.67,"text":"But I think that'll be fun."},{"start":138.81,"end":139.41,"text":"Oh, it will be."},{"start":139.46,"end":140.38,"text":"See him on his 80th birthday."},{"start":140.76,"end":141.34,"text":"It will be fun."},{"start":141.6,"end":144.78,"text":"Well, we know, you know, Mr. Cox at Popcox knows him."},{"start":144.8,"end":147.87,"text":"This is Light, who's his ex-wife, but the mother of his sons."},{"start":147.89,"end":150.29,"text":"And I still think they get on very well together."},{"start":150.27,"end":151.29,"text":"Oh, do they?"},{"start":151.31,"end":156.62,"text":"They get on very well together because he admires the way she's brought up one of the boys."},{"start":156.66,"end":158.26,"text":"That's very interesting."},{"start":158.28,"end":158.6,"text":"It is."},{"start":158.76,"end":159.4,"text":"It is good."},{"start":159.88,"end":161.1,"text":"Her husband's dead now."},{"start":161.12,"end":163.78,"text":"She's a widow again, and Geddy Light is."},{"start":164.47,"end":166.77,"text":"And we see quite a lot of her."},{"start":166.83,"end":171.47,"text":"We were at a dance together just a couple of weeks ago, and Geddy's a nice person."},{"start":171.49,"end":172.33,"text":"Oh, that's good."},{"start":172.35,"end":172.67,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":172.69,"end":174.88,"text":"That's good."},{"start":174.86,"end":179.32,"text":"It sounds interesting and we'll have to tell you all about it when we get back."},{"start":179.62,"end":180.22,"text":"Okay?"},{"start":180.24,"end":190.94,"text":"You do."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"Tricia Nixon Cox speaks with Mrs. Howard Cox regarding the logistics and social itinerary for her upcoming international travel. 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