{"conversationCode":"034-044","tapeNumber":34,"conversationNumber":44,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-034-044","startDateTime":"1972-12-11T22:09:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1972-12-11T22:10:00.000Z","startDate":"11-Dec-1972","startTime":"5:09 PM","endDate":"11-Dec-1972","endTime":"5:10 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"certain","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); Eisenhower, Julie Nixon;","description":"On December 11, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower talked on the telephone from 5:09 pm to 5:10 pm. 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(“Pat”) Nixon\n             -Outcome\n\n       The President’s health\n            -Stiffness\n\n       The President’s upcoming meeting with Julie Nixon Eisenhower\n            -Scheduling\n            -Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s employment\n\n[End segment reviewed under deed of gift]\n*****************************************************************\n\f                                             -41-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM","filename":["034-044.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Eisenhower, Julie Nixon"],"prevCode":"034-043","nextCode":"034-045","transcript":[{"start":0.42,"end":3.17,"text":"I have Julie, sir."},{"start":3.19,"end":3.59,"text":"Daddy?"},{"start":3.87,"end":4.51,"text":"Hi, Julie."},{"start":4.73,"end":5.43,"text":"Hi, how are you?"},{"start":5.53,"end":5.75,"text":"Fine."},{"start":5.77,"end":6.63,"text":"How's everything going?"},{"start":6.7,"end":8.84,"text":"And how did the Mommy's Christmas show go?"},{"start":9.06,"end":11.13,"text":"Oh, she thought it was a smash success."},{"start":11.47,"end":11.67,"text":"Great."},{"start":11.69,"end":12.13,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":12.77,"end":14.13,"text":"She said everybody just loved it."},{"start":14.41,"end":15.5,"text":"Oh, that's wonderful, honey."},{"start":15.58,"end":15.94,"text":"How are you?"},{"start":16.06,"end":17.48,"text":"Are you stiff today?"},{"start":17.46,"end":19,"text":"Oh, yeah."},{"start":19.02,"end":20.47,"text":"It's always worse the third day."},{"start":20.83,"end":21.37,"text":"Oh, boy."},{"start":21.39,"end":23.17,"text":"And second day, whatever it is."},{"start":23.19,"end":23.99,"text":"But it'll be all right."},{"start":24.01,"end":24.95,"text":"Oh, I'm sure it'll be fine."},{"start":24.97,"end":26.57,"text":"Because I'm just sitting, you see, all day."},{"start":26.59,"end":27.76,"text":"It's only when I move around."},{"start":27.92,"end":28.66,"text":"It's a little hard to move."},{"start":28.68,"end":29.34,"text":"Put your leg up."},{"start":29.46,"end":30.46,"text":"Yeah, I'm over the UV."},{"start":30.58,"end":40.49,"text":"I wanted to, sometime today, to talk to you about jobs and all that sometime, you know, sometime tonight or later on tonight before you go to bed or something."},{"start":40.83,"end":41.17,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":41.27,"end":43.48,"text":"Whenever you have time, give me a call."},{"start":43.5,"end":44.72,"text":"What about your situation?"},{"start":44.78,"end":47.18,"text":"Why don't you come over, say, at..."},{"start":47.75,"end":66.32,"text":"say at 5 30 and we could talk and then walk back over together at six o'clock for the that'd be great but i don't want to take any of your no no no that's a good time for me very great i'm very come over come over at 5 30 you give about 20 minutes great thank you daddy okay"}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and his daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, exchanged updates on personal matters, including the successful reception of the First Lady’s Christmas show and the President’s physical recovery from stiffness. The pair coordinated a brief meeting for later that evening to discuss Julie’s professional career and employment situation. 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