{"conversationCode":"035-117","tapeNumber":35,"conversationNumber":117,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-035-117","startDateTime":"1973-01-09T20:25:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1973-01-09T21:11:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Jan-1973","startTime":"3:25 PM","endDate":"9-Jan-1973","endTime":"4:11 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\"); White House operator; Nixon, Richard M. (President); Colson, Charles W.; Bull, Stephen B.;","description":"On January 9, 1973, H. R. (\"Bob\") Haldeman, White House operator, President Richard M. Nixon, Charles W. Colson, and Stephen B. Bull talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:25 pm and 4:11 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 035-117 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":"5.2","chronRelease":"Fifth Chronological Release: Part II","chronReleaseDate":"2-Dec-2008","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 35-117\n\nDate: January 9, 1973\nTime: Unknown between 3:25 pm and 4:11 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nH. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman talked with the White House operator.\n\nThe President and Charles W. Colson can be heard in the background.\n\n[See Conversation No. 401-16B]\n\n       Request for a call to Stephen B. Bull\n\nHaldeman talked with an unknown person in Bull's office at an unknown time between 3:25 pm\nand 4:11 pm.\n\f                                            -104-\n\n                   NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM\n\n                                                           Conversation No. 35-117 (cont’d)\n\n       Request for Bull.\n\nHaldeman talked with Bull at an unknown time between 3:25 pm and 4:11 pm.\n\n[See Conversation No. 401-16C]\n\n       The President's schedule\n            -Automobiles for ride with Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo\n                  -South Grounds of White House\n                  -Duration of ride\n                  -Announcement\n                  -Security requirements\n                         -Seat divider\n                  -Ronald L. Ziegler\n                  -Security requirements\n                         -Seat divider\n                         -Flags\n                  -Ziegler\n                         -Notification\n                               -Timing\n                  -South grounds\n                  -Stops","filename":["035-117.mp3"],"tapeStart":"","tapeEnd":"","participantsList":["Haldeman, H. R. (\"Bob\")","White House operator","Nixon, Richard M. (President)","Colson, Charles W.","Bull, Stephen B."],"prevCode":"035-116","nextCode":"035-118","transcript":[{"start":0.64,"end":2.88,"text":"Steve Boll, please."},{"start":2.98,"end":4.25,"text":"Thank you."},{"start":4.26,"end":4.61,"text":"No."},{"start":4.62,"end":7.61,"text":"No."},{"start":7.63,"end":17.21,"text":"Mr. Haldeman?"},{"start":17.23,"end":20.15,"text":"Mr. Boll's office."},{"start":20.17,"end":20.88,"text":"Speak to Steve, please."},{"start":30.96,"end":57.85,"text":"like a car on the south grounds as quickly as you can get it there to go for a little drive with bb all right he'll be out for about a half an hour and there'll be no announcement it should be a plane car and a plane follow-up car you know no station wagon or anything okay and he but he needs a car with a divider get the smallest car we have with a divider between the front and back seat after he leaves you may have to take a presidential car if you"},{"start":58.89,"end":61.61,"text":"Take whatever you have to take that's got a divider."},{"start":63.04,"end":66.42,"text":"And don't use the flags or anything like that, you know."},{"start":67.1,"end":68.18,"text":"Tell Ziegler after he leaves."},{"start":68.5,"end":69.66,"text":"Half an hour after he leaves."},{"start":70,"end":71.31,"text":"Right."},{"start":71.33,"end":75.79,"text":"After he's been gone a half an hour, then tell Ziegler that the president went for a ride."},{"start":76.21,"end":76.77,"text":"South Grounds."},{"start":77.37,"end":79.17,"text":"South Grounds, and he's not making any stops."},{"start":80.15,"end":80.52,"text":"All right."},{"start":82.58,"end":83.3,"text":"So he's ready to go."},{"start":83.74,"end":84.98,"text":"You know, he'll be over in just a few minutes."},{"start":85,"end":86.2,"text":"I'll do it very quickly then."},{"start":86.22,"end":86.62,"text":"Righto."},{"start":86.64,"end":87.36,"text":"Thank you."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"H. R. Haldeman coordinates with Stephen B. Bull to arrange an unannounced, low-profile excursion for President Nixon and Charles G. “Bebe” Rebozo on the White House South Grounds. Haldeman specifies strict security and aesthetic requirements for the vehicle, including the necessity of a seat divider and the removal of presidential flags. Additionally, he instructs that Press Secretary Ronald L. 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